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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Durham, England
Posts: 694
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Try this out...
Apparently this is a famous little problem that has been around for ages, but I've only just been introduced to it and thought it was quite fun:
http://crux.baker.edu/cdavis09/roses.html Plus some of the comments sent in by people doing the puzzle are quite amusing, in a bitter and twisted sort of way. Once you get it, no spoiling it for other people please!
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
Posts: 10,647
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*snicker* watches as people suffer from brain-farts.
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The Dude
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: at the altar of my ego
Posts: 1,685
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i dont ****ing get it
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The Intermittent One
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: here and there
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The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium)
Posts: 14,363
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Nice little test. I figured it out in my third try. I'm not sure what that makes me, dumb or smart. (No need to answer, rethorical question.
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Orodruin's Flame
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Kananaskis, AB
Posts: 1,194
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Am I that stupid?
What the hell has rose petals got to do with it??
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Super Moderator Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Canada
Posts: 8,397
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I think I'm just over-thinking it.
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The Intermittent One
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: here and there
Posts: 4,671
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i always get close, i type 8.5, and it's 8, and stuff like that
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
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"Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords |
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Co-President of Entmoot
Super Moderator Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Canada
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Lady of Letters
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England
Posts: 2,476
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![]() I don't think it's that obvious - it relies on being able to recognise that (spoiler) a dice with dots on it looks a bit like a rose which you either see or you don't. I'm not going anywhere near the other puzzles. I need my sanity!
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. Last edited by sun-star : 01-26-2005 at 10:13 AM. |
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Canada
Posts: 256
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Earendel arose where the shadow flows At Ocean's silent brim; Through the mouth of night as a ray of light Where the shores are sheer and dim He launched his bark like a silver spark From the last and lonely sand; Then on sunlit breath of day's fiery death He sailed from Westerland |
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The Intermittent One
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: here and there
Posts: 4,671
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ah, i see, i got it now, i think, unless that was a lucky guess
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Israel
Posts: 6,975
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Easy. I got it on my third.
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Woolly Jumper
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby
Posts: 1,200
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ic ant do it and its driving me insane!!!!!!! :
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Mootis per forum
Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Spain
Posts: 61,439
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I got it in my third or fourth try. Very funny!
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Orodruin's Flame
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Kananaskis, AB
Posts: 1,194
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Yay I got it..
simple when you know it
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Council of Entmoot - Foreign Affairs Minister - 2004-05 Visit the Ye Olde Avatar Shop and The New One Dont tell me what I cannot do Two men are on a Island, they both see a "monster", one sees a bright light, and the other sees a dark cloud My name bares no reference to the music artist. |
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Lady Tipple & Queen of Blessed Thistle
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: I've been told it's all in my head
Posts: 916
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Yah, I got it on the third try. My instincts finally won out over my supposed "brain", lol.
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Entmoot Attorney-General,
Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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The Supreme Lord of The Northern Eagles
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: trondheim, norway
Posts: 1,388
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try this out!
I came across this, which is a little funny, and quite frustrating game
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