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#037 - [Flames] - Muscae Vlitantes
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#037 - [Flames] - Muscae Vlitantes

http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/view.php?item=37

Any images of this card?

PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:33 pm
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Adam G.
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I have this card and unfortunitly its a visual card and i have no scanner. If anyone could tell me what im looking for it would be GREATLY thanked for. The picture makes no sence to me at all. Please help me please Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:55 pm
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Nightingale
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This one REALLY annoyed me! I'd been trying to solve it for hours under day light and I could almost make something out but it was too faint and jumbled.

Then when it got dark I switched on my desk lamp, looked down and there it was.

You have to look at it when the light hits it a certain way. Or...

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Input the solve code because the picture of the card on the website shows it in the right light.



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:20 pm
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CherokeeParkes
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You asked for it. Don't stare it at too long. It makes my eyes hurt.

PS Take several step back and look. I laughed manically when I saw the picture.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:22 pm
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Adam G.
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im still not seing it using all this help. It might be my eyes, every snce i was young ive has no depth perseption. like with those red and blue glasses with movies in 3d they never worked for me. is it a work im looking for? Or the name of the picture?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:03 pm
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Grizy
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Your looking for an idiom.
A commonly used phrase or saying.

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In the picture you can just about make out some letters which are partially obscured by some tree trunks


PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:12 pm
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GasparLewis
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Without looking at what Griz said, my first impulse would be to say:

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Can't see the forest for the trees.


I choose specifically not to look because, for all the collaborative force I love about UF, I laso love the thrill of doing it myself. Y'know. Wink

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Confirmed solve:

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Can't see the wood for the trees

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:06 pm
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Edward Nigma
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Try sticking it to your bedroom wall & then walking backwards away from it. When I got to 6 metres away the image just appeared - which is just as well since when I turned round I was at the top of the stairs. Please only attempt this if you live in a bungalow. Smile

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For the sake of completeness, and as I like the fact these things actually have a name, muscae volitantes is another name for floaters (those little bits that cross your eyes and are actually little opaque lumps in your vitreous humour). Muscae volitantes is latin for 'flying flies'. See here for more.
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zoltan
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i'm with adam g on this one. i have spent days looking at this, under natural light, artificial light, near darkness. it is really starting to do my head in!
i can't see anything at all, and my eyes hurt like you wouldn't believe!
it's a £$%(*&^ orange card! why can't i solve it!!!!!!!!!

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Can someone please tell us what the playing card symbol is on this card?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:07 pm
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Flynn
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BriEnigma wrote:
Can someone please tell us what the playing card symbol is on this card?


Surely can - 6 of Diamonds.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:20 pm
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ne0x
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Ok, I got it after a bit...
Funny thing is that the idiom isn't worded the same way here in Canada.


Anyway, I'm wondering about the "muscae volitantes" reference. I'm not seeing (no pun intended Wink ) the connection between them.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:17 pm
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ne0x wrote:
Anyway, I'm wondering about the "muscae volitantes" reference. I'm not seeing (no pun intended Wink ) the connection between them.


muscae volitantes, (Latin for 'flying flies'): "spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens" (thefreedictionary.com) - causing the person to see 'black dots'.

The connection to the card being that the image on the card is obscured by black dots.

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