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[SOLVED] #087 - Yellow - Bar Crossing

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The First Speaker · Boot Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 55 Location: UK

Hoping this is right

**Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:14 pm

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Equinox · Boot Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 16 Location: Norwich, UK

There is probably a name for this kind of puzzel like'bar crossing' 'river crossing' or somthing.... I mean I know so many variations on it there must be an original name for this type of puzzel or mayb its somthing like 'the four step ruel' I don't know but worth reseaching i suppose.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:20 am

Leeravitz

Oh, that Tippy! And isn't Kurt a nice young man...

**Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:23 pm

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Seej · Unfettered Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 614

An added benefit of this solution is that Tippy is forced to walk off some of the booze. Convenient, no?

**Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:34 am

JebJoya · Unfettered Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 679 Location: UK

My god. That senior fellow is so sleazy Smile

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**Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:27 pm

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firefox · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 333

**Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:35 pm

Scott

By the way, that's Hunan Mansoor, Senior Fellow of Cryptology oogling fFair Tippy.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:28 pm

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Does it mean anything, though? Smile

**Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:26 pm

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PuzzledPineapple · Unfettered Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 352

**Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:36 pm

Doormat · Kilroy Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 2

This is generally known as a river crossing puzzle. I think the most common example has a fox, a duck/chicken and a bag of corn.

**Posted:** Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:36 pm

sledgecallier

Having just recieved my Firebox order, I have just got a chance to look at the cards in detail and just noticed that in Tippy's bag there looks to a standard 'Mobile Phone'? Is this supposed to be a representation of the fabled Perplex City Key? (Or is this just the artist being lazy?)

**Posted:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:33 pm

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Tippy looks like a fashionable young lady, and it's trendy to have a key that looks like an Earth mobile phone. Darn it, she's cool, beautiful and clever!
...can't hold her drink though. Lightweight.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:43 pm

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**Posted:** Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:58 pm

Bahamoth · Boot Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 24 Location: Reading

I looked up the Prof Hunan Mansoor, and among his list of achievements was the 'Sanguine Algorithm'. I supposed that this could be the same for the type of puzzle (river crossing notwithstanding) so I googled it. The results were mostly to do with Perplex City except one

http://www.interweavers.com/brett/humor/cogsci-jokes.html

As you can see from the address, it's jokey etc... I haven't read it deeply enought to get the joke if there really is one. I just scanned the text for any reference to the Sanguine Algorithm. Here is the reference, for more, go the page itself. I'm afraid, I'm not techinically minded enough to understand what is being said, so I thought I'd post it and let you guys figure it out.

Happy reading!

''Using the Sanguine Algorithm, a
network with only two hidden units rapidly converges to a soft
error functional. Of course, the network has no idea of what
value will come next; however, the happiness function shows it is
quite blissful in its ignorance. We propose that this technique
will have wide application in Republican approaches to
government. ''

**Posted:** Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:24 pm