Skip to Navigation

Perplex City - We Love Puzzles

Have an account? Sign in / Register

Forums

See Also: | Forum Home RSS | Search | Recent RSS |

#239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris)

Forum Index -> Season 2 -> #239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) RSS

Go to Page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next 

Author Message
#12385
#239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) 20/11/2008 16:25:34

arkasha
Lover of Puzzles

Messages: 125

Offline

#239 'They Have The Answer'

Front
(disks, in yellow, orange, red and green, with numbers on)

Code:

                 P
 
        6       7  16       2
 
         14  18  20   6  10
 
        9   2  73  25  12  17
 
  3  22  27  74  AP? 74   1  24   7
 
        8  26  02  85  19  23
 
          5   3  13  11  15
 
        1       4  21       4
 
                  5


FINCH
Back
text to come


Please use this thread for discussion about this card.
My S2W2 solves: 49/86
#12615
Re: #239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) 02/12/2008 03:59:14

UKver2.0
Lover of Puzzles

Messages: 95

Offline

[image]
#12619
Re: #239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) 02/12/2008 12:11:57

domroberts
Lover of Puzzles

[Avatar]

Messages: 14

Offline

They have the answer...

Must be at least something to do with

Spoiler: (highlight to read)

smarties...



Or is that too obvious?
#12620
Re: #239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) 02/12/2008 15:18:04

UKver2.0
Lover of Puzzles

Messages: 95

Offline

Not obvious for me. I didn't know that was their slogan.

This explains why the title is in quotes.

Oh, and in case it's too hard to see in the scan, the center circle is connected to the "02" circle.
#12623
Re: #239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) 02/12/2008 16:10:26

trk
Lover of Puzzles

[Avatar]

Messages: 179

Offline

Ok, my initial observations:

Spoiler: (highlight to read)


Firstly listing the groups:
There are 8 Yellows numbers 1 to 7 and the letter P
26 Orange which are the numbers 1 to 27 except 25
6 Reds each 2 digits long and 74 is repeated.

The 02 on the Reds is odd so I'm thinking that the Reds are a year i.e. 1973, 1974, 1974, 1985, 2002 and either 2025 or 1925. This could make Oranges and Yellows some other date reference (day & month or week & day of week). But why are the Oranges missing 25? And why do the Yellows have a P instead of a number? Is this some sort of calendar?

I've checked those years against Smarties (I too remembered the advert slogan) but didn't find anything.

S2W2 Solves
My Moshi Monsters:
Bena
BenaKat
#12649
Re: #239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) 03/12/2008 16:25:05

martynpie
Lover of Puzzles

[Avatar]

Messages: 112

Offline

Despite not having this card...

Spoiler: (highlight to read)


I tried smarties when the answer website first went up, purely because I clicked on the card at random to look at the answer input system and had a quick guess!

Woowoo!
#12653
Re: #239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) 03/12/2008 18:49:20

domroberts
Lover of Puzzles

[Avatar]

Messages: 14

Offline

I dont think this needs spoilering but let me know if anyone disagrees!

trk - there is an orange 25, the 25 that seems to be red is in fact the culprit. If you look carefully you should spot it is a different shade to the others.

The reds and 25 are interlinked, and just to repeat, the 02 is linked to the green AP?.
#12655
Re: #239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) 04/12/2008 00:47:47

UKver2.0
Lover of Puzzles

Messages: 95

Offline

domroberts wrote:

If you look carefully you should spot it is a different shade to the others.


Thank you for confirming that. I thought it was different, but the longer I looked, the less sure I was.
#12661
Re: #239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) 04/12/2008 11:10:55

trk
Lover of Puzzles

[Avatar]

Messages: 179

Offline

domroberts wrote:

trk - there is an orange 25, the 25 that seems to be red is in fact the culprit. If you look carefully you should spot it is a different shade to the others.

Ahh, thanks, I really should have got my real card out and had a look at that shouldn't I?
S2W2 Solves
My Moshi Monsters:
Bena
BenaKat
#12671
Re: #239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) 04/12/2008 19:30:08

MD1500
Lover of Puzzles

[Avatar]

Messages: 164

Offline

For the record, the answer isn't...

Spoiler: (highlight to read)


Blue or Blue Smartie.

(I wondered if the puzzle was about the Blue Smarties that they removed for a long time due to Artificial Colouring. Now they've found a way to make it with Natural Colouring, it's part of the Smarties packet once more.)

My S2W2 solves

[UPDATED 23/12] Needs: (S1) Gold card 257. / (S2W2) 243 244.
Trading: (S2W2) 239. All Red-Black. / (S2W1) Hamleys set. Key. / (S1) 235 241.



#12672
#239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) 04/12/2008 19:35:15

domroberts
Lover of Puzzles

[Avatar]

Messages: 14

Offline

Not card-related, but mmmmm, the blues were delicious.
#12673
Re: #239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) 04/12/2008 19:43:36

domroberts
Lover of Puzzles

[Avatar]

Messages: 14

Offline

Right, thinking more about this. How about this for an idea?

Spoiler: (highlight to read)


Each number could be a letter. 8=P for example as a starter.

27 numbers in the orange section is a bit odd as we only have 26 letters, but considering the green is 'AP?', the 27th could possibly be a '?'.

Then, just perhaps... reading the letters in the order of the numbers makes a phrase. This probably isn't right as not many phrases use all 26 letters in the alphabet just once. Maybe the oranges correspond to a code which enables the reds to be read in a circle, leading to the green question?

Or the reds could maybe two letters together?

Worth mentioning hopefully.

My other idea - does anybody know any board games with this layout? Smarties are easily interchangeable for many board game counters.

#12676
Re: #239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) 04/12/2008 22:01:19

Cabbage
Lover of Puzzles

[Avatar]

Messages: 310

Offline

domroberts wrote:

My other idea - does anybody know any board games with this layout? Smarties are easily interchangeable for many board game counters.


Smarties are a terrible idea for board game counters - they don't last long enough.

Anyway, I can confirm also that the answer is neither Spirulina nor seaweed, which was the answer to the problem of finding a natural and acceptable blue dye for the Blue ones after they were removed and then reformulated as a "natural" product.

It was worth a shot I suppose and this is part of what I love about these cards - the stuff you get to find out...


#12678
Re: #239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) 04/12/2008 23:31:22

arkasha
Lover of Puzzles

Messages: 125

Offline

domroberts wrote:

Spoiler: (highlight to read)

My other idea - does anybody know any board games with this layout? Smarties are easily interchangeable for many board game counters.

Spoiler: (highlight to read)

The layout sort-of seems right for a game of Chinese Checkers, only that uses a 6-pointed star instead of an 8-pointed one.
My S2W2 solves: 49/86
#12726
Re: #239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) 12/12/2008 20:35:36

MD1500
Lover of Puzzles

[Avatar]

Messages: 164

Offline

Just had a thought. Probably nothing, but it might get someone thinking.

Spoiler: (highlight to read)


Could the shape represent the "Starburst" chewy sweets, formerly known as "Opal Fruits"?

My S2W2 solves

[UPDATED 23/12] Needs: (S1) Gold card 257. / (S2W2) 243 244.
Trading: (S2W2) 239. All Red-Black. / (S2W1) Hamleys set. Key. / (S1) 235 241.



Forum Index -> Season 2 -> #239 - 'They Have The Answer' (silver Tetris) RSS

Go to Page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next 

Go to: