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[SPEC] Whipsmart flavour puzzle
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Mikeyj
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Salkunh wrote:
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(in my mind this is in the same place as Dumbledore's passion for every flavour beans).


and sherbert lemons...lets not forget them!


You've just unfettered yourself with a sherbert lemon...what a way to go! Laughing
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Leeravitz
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Why, what with all this discussion of 'monkey nuts' and the like, no - one seems to be asking the equally interesting (if less relevant) question...

What unholy thought process could have led our bushy moustachioed friend to name his ice - creams after the people he did?

Whipsmart increases intelligence (allegedly) - so having the Isaac Newton flavour, the Pierre de Fermat flavour, the Rene Descartes flavour and maybe even the Kofi Annan flavour is fine by me...

but David Hasslehoff...does he know something we don't??!
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Hassle The Hoff

Leeravitz wrote:
but David Hasslehoff...does he know something we don't??!

Well, he is quite huge in Germany, from what I understand.
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spugmeistress
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Leeravitz wrote:

but David Hasslehoff...does he know something we don't??!


stalk him, stalk him now! lol... (kidding, really)

but to be fair, you *have* to have toffee flavoured ice cream, and how many people do you know whose name handily happens to (almost) rhyme?

rach =) (waits for the deluge...)

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Re: Hassle The Hoff

BriEnigma wrote:
Leeravitz wrote:
but David Hasslehoff...does he know something we don't??!

Well, he is quite huge in Germany, from what I understand.

and clearly he has to be some kind of genius to come up with the name "Sir Henry Von Hasslehoff" for his dog Laughing (i'm not even kidding)

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drizjr
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milkmaids and flavours

I've been looking at whipsmartice more closely since there seem to be some nudges in that direction.
I have a few trivial observations that I haven't seen mentioned, and an off the wall, suggestion for someone (with greater tech skills than I) to try.

First, the frivolous, unrelated observations:
1. View http://www.whipsmartice.com/images/spacer.gif with 'select all'. A tiny dot appears in the upper left hand corner. That's nothing, right?
2. On the ice cream shop page.
The last three columns of flavour bubbles rotate clockwise, while the rest turn counter clockwise.
Why would the page designers do that?
3. On the Pasture page.
Zoom into the chains that hold the milkmaids' buckets. They almost, and I mean almost look like letters.

The nudges:
1. Under the "More Headlines" banner at The Sentinel is "WhipSmart Debuts Game"
Hmm, what game is that, and why can't we play? Crying or Very sad
2. From Violet's blog ,"'Lyssa!' I cried. 'If you don't take care, your icecream will deliquesce irretrievably.'"
Ice cream is two words on Earth. Maybe it's one in PerplexCity or just a typo or… written that way to draw our attention to it and the whipsmartice page.

The suggestion:
And, the reason why I'm posting under this spec…. this question.
Is it possible to overlay the milkmaids movements onto the flavours page to see if they touch on certain letters to spell out something?

Ok, it's a wild idea, but you can count on me for that. Smile

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2. From Violet's blog ,"'Lyssa!' I cried. 'If you don't take care, your icecream will deliquesce irretrievably.'"
Ice cream is two words on Earth. Maybe it's one in PerplexCity or just a typo or… written that way to draw our attention to it and the whipsmartice page.


hmmm -- i always use one word "icecream" -- but then im lazy -- but i prefer one word

but then again im probably not from earth Smile
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I think it's ok to have it all as one word, it can be hypenated but it's a bit old-fashioned. I know we tend to write "ice cream" but I don't think I'd grab my red pen and correct it, you could argue any of these ways is correct

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Re: milkmaids and flavours

drizjr wrote:
1. View http://www.whipsmartice.com/images/spacer.gif with 'select all'. A tiny dot appears in the upper left hand corner. That's nothing, right?
I'm not sure if you're joking or not... um.

The dot in the left corner is just the actual image being highlighted. It's only 1x1 pixels... hence, being a spaccer. Smile
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drizjr
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Thank you for explaining the spacer gif. I honestly didn't know. Ya see, when I was in school there were these cards with holes in them...oh, nevermind. Smile At least I learned something.

What about the idea of overlapping the flavours page and the pasture page? Is that something that can be done?

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drizjr wrote:
What about the idea of overlapping the flavours page and the pasture page? Is that something that can be done?

like so? sure. notice i made it a realy jaggy-low res image, cos i dont think it yeilds much.
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Well, actually, when you display it like it that, it does sort of begin to look like a 'Grateful Dead' light show circa 1968 [see our companion 'Whipsmart Music' thread for those now confused...]

Maybe we *are* onto something Smile
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Monkey Puzzle Essence

I have been doing some research into this after BriEnigma's interesting observation. I have just come across this website:

http://www.essences.com/vibration/aug01/monkeypuzzletree.html

I will give a brief overview - A woman named Donna Cunningham has been experimenting with the essence of the Monkey Puzzle tree. Here are some of the interesting things she has to say:

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I was awakened in the middle of the night by an unknown monkey puzzle tree which insisted I was to make an essence of it. I asked what the essence was for, and was told it was for solving knotty problems.

I said, "But you don't have flowers. How am I supposed to make an essence of you?"

It replied saucily, "Well, that's your first puzzle, isn't it?"


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The deva of the tree instructed me to make the essence twice, once with Mercury retrograde, as it was then, and again when Mercury had turned direct and other astrological conditions were right. (Its creation during key points of Mercury's cycle seemed appropriate for an essence that turned out to be related to mental work and puzzles.)


Well, now this is interesting. The date when the Cube was found (1737 in Earth years) corresponds to the only recorded syzygy on Earth (when Mercury crossed Venus's path). See: http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Current_Speculation Make of that what you will.

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The tree said that the essence is for solving knotty problems and extracting yourself from overly complex situations (though not codependent ones).


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I kept a dosage bottle handy at the terminal and found that grabbing it and taking a dose when I ran into a poser cut down on the time needed to solve such problems. However, for those who are new to computers or consider themselves techno-bimboes, it also improves one's effectiveness at computers and math to take dosage level several times a day for a few weeks.


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Monkey Puzzle essence is good for those who enjoy crosswords, puzzles like the Rubric's Cube, and mysteries, although some may find they preferred their mystification before taking the essence.


Seeing as Whipsmart specialise in IQ boosting Ice Creams, perhaps it is no puzzle at all that they would have such a delicacy.

Anyhow, interesting stuff even if not strictly puzzle related. I think we could all do with ordering some of the stuff before game startup; could do with a little problem solving boost on a late night solve.
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tr0u200d
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If this is a puzzle, then surely Sente's favourite flavour has to be important at some point (in my mind this is in the same place as Dumbledore's passion for every flavour beans).[/quote]

I'm sorry if this had been said already but his fave flavour is
Quantum cherry if you go to the flavours page and click the owners tash he says things.

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hey, dont know if you found this out already, but if you go to the factory page there is a lightbulb-like-thingy. If you press it there opens a link to www.lunartik.com . Dont know if this is important, but I havent had time to check.
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