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#226 - The Great Bomb Chase (silver suits) 01/03/2007 18:58:27

mindcandy
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Please use this thread for discussion about this card.
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#226 - The Great Bomb Chase (silver suits) 02/04/2007 19:40:37

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woohoo!! I'm first to post on here? Cool I just put three lists together. There are three possibles, but third click gave me the right one!!
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#226 - The Great Bomb Chase (silver suits) 03/04/2007 12:24:19

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Do you mean you had the States listed once in order of size, once in order of joining and once alphabetically?
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#226 - The Great Bomb Chase (silver suits) 03/04/2007 15:58:39

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yes I did three lists in Excel and sort per the instructions.
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Re: #226 - The Great Bomb Chase (silver suits) 19/05/2007 17:43:12

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I did this programmatically. Sort of the cheater's approach, but these "move through adjacent states according to some rule" puzzles are common enough in the universe that I can reuse it at some point.

I found that

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depending on how you interpret the text, there are lots of possible routes for the three agents. Specifically, there are many times when two agents might be in the same state. Does the text mean that there's only one month when two agents are in the same state? That probably makes it a unique solution. At any rate, there are only 3 possibilities for the bomb state, so I just guessed through them.

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Re: #226 - The Great Bomb Chase (silver suits) 16/05/2008 08:49:49

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Brondahl wrote:

Hi I'm trying to find out how to contact MC, as I would like to clarify certain details of a card.
Specifically I want to know some details of #226 'The Great Bomb chase' from Season 2.

I found a couple of e-mail addresses but I've had no reply, and the majoity of perplexcity forums look to have been dead for a while - the post above this is the 1st one in quite a while.

So... If you know a way to contact MC, or any of the puzzle setters, or if you know of a site where MC posted card clarifications,etc.

Please e-mail me - I might not notice a reply on a forum.

Here's my e-mail address **I've reversed the 1st 2 letters to try and fool any spam bots and the stars are there to highlight it- NB. it really is an 'x' in the middle**

**ts**ixmclean@aol.com

So.. remove the stars reverse the letters, and give me a shout.

Thanks.

yours Brondahl.


I took the liberty of putting it in the right place for you - hope no one minds
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Re: #226 - The Great Bomb Chase (silver suits) 17/05/2008 00:25:50

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In the interests of tidyness, here's the discussion that's been going on over in the #069: Roundabout thread:

redaura wrote:

the quickest way to do that brondahl would be to place a request or search on the individual thread set aside for that card.


Brondahl wrote:

What do you mean 'Place a request'?

I've looked on many forums and all of them are full of ppl saying 'Well I reckon this is the most obvious interpretation' or 'Well, I assumed this and that, then I got it down to 3 choices and I guessed and one of my guesses was right' or variations on those themes.

All of which is very helpful If you want to solve the card in order to earn the points or whatever.

But I'm only interested in solving the puzzle and reaching a definitve answer.


redaura wrote:

well surely either way you have solved the puzzle? whether you do it for pride, points or prizes at the end of the day you have the solution to the puzzle.

But however this is all off topic, Mind candy/welovepuzzles set up the forum in such a way that there is an individual thread for each card. I'd love to help but still haven't got that card, so why not PM people from the thread for the card you require.


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Well... No; that's the point. I'm not after the solution, I want to have solved the puzzle - a very subtle difference, I know.

To take it to the extreme, I could have typed all 50 states into the answer field, and then I would have the answer, but as I'm sure you appreciate that would be rather unsatisfactory.

Equally I want to know that I have solved the problem about which they are thinking, not 'a puzzle which is similar and coincidentally has the same answer'.

I recognise that this is problem are rather unusual view point, but hey, I know what I like

Brondahl


I now ask that any further discussion be kept to this thread. Thankyouverymuch.

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