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[Hex Set] Silver #235 - Circuitous
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Hunting4Treasure
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 		ROFLMAOPMPWTRDF!!! Laughing Laughing Laughing
You guys are too much! (wiping tears from face)
I don't have this card yet, but I'll have it next week, so I'll have to take a closer look at it... although I don't expect to come up with answers any more creative than yours! Laughing Laughing Laughing
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themandotcom wrote:
So my guess (maybe I shouldn't Laughing) is that we must find the the total resistance of this circut. Maybe that will get us a year, date, day or a combo of the three.

Sounds like a not unreasonable idea. Anyone given this a go? Maybe I shouldn't have bunked off my physics lessons at school.....
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hendo77
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 		I also guessed:

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Alice (as in wonderland), and Henry (VIII as he had 6 wives?!) but no joy (unsurprisingly)


With the resistors I have looked at:

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adding up the total resistance and get 1065732310 - is this correct? Looked up 1066 and tried William and Harold - both incorrect. Didn't really know what else to try with the number and wasn't 100% sure I'd worked it out right.

I've also tried looking at the colours that would be on each resistor - again wasn't confident that I had done this right and couldn't really see anything that might help. Tried violet from this, again was incorrect.


Not really sure where to go next with this one...

PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:26 pm
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KingOfWrong wrote:

Another possibility is the colour codes on the resistors:
230KΩ = Red/Orange/Yellow
5.5MΩ = Green/Green/Green
2.2KΩ = Red/Red/Red
290MΩ = Red/White/Violet*
110Ω = Brown/Brown/Brown
770MΩ = Violet/Violet/Violet*
(* - Violet may or may not be valid for the multiplier band)

For completeness, the capacitor would have a code of 204 (2.0x10 4 pF)


Definitely interesting - though possibly a red herring, I suppose. (Incidentally, there are also apparently several colour codes for capacitors, depending on what sort of capacitor it is.)

Oh, and does anyone else think that symbol on the left-hand edge at the top is slightly odd? It doesn't look like the standard symbol for a lamp - in particular, the wires enter in the wrong place and there's an odd semicircular marking on the bit that would represent the filament of the lamp.

Edit: Also (perhaps unsurprisingly) apart from the 2.2kΩ and the 110Ω ones the resistances specified don't correspond to the preferred numbers. (The numbers are closer for lower values, so the 2.2kΩ and 110Ω are probably coincidences). I'm guessing it'd be quite hard to find actual resistors with these nominal values...

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 		Thinking about the total resistance - 1.06 billion - could it be a time?

Using the Java calendar - milliseconds since 1/1/1970 0:00 UTC - it gives around 06:30 on January 13th 1970. That's around the end of the Nigerian Civil War, when Biafra surrendered. The leader of the secession was Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.

Or, using the Unix epoch instead - seconds since 1/1/1970 0:00 - then we'd have early evening on October 9th 2003. That's when Arnold Schwarzenegger beat Gray Davis to become governor of California. Perhaps it's a terminating resistor? Wink

Probably just another scarlet rollmop... Sad

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 		I was looking at the card and thinking about the fact there are several short circuits on it, so tried:
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Number (Five)
Johnny (Five) and
J5


... no dice Sad


I wonder if there is any significance to the repeated "WHOSE STORY?" in the background?

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 		Who was the author/writer of the original Short Circuit movie.

That would be my guess if I had the card.

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 		I'm sure this isn't right at all, but I'm thinking the question asks a fFairly pointed topic. Whose story is this? Somehow, a story, like Hamlet or Goldilocks, is being presented here. Very interpretively, mind you, but there it is. So a resistor could be, say, someone dying. The speaker symbol might indicate some sort of soliloquy. In this way, it could represent any story at all, if you look at it in the right fFrame of mind, which doesnt fFill me with confidence on this theory. But it's a thought process, anyway.
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 		Did some random googling...
circuitous whose story radio.

Found 2 women, Aileen and Janet. tried both, and I am incorrect. However, PC had a real slow time loading after I put in Aileen...then went really fast on Janet. (when it loads slow I have a tendency to think that it is checking my answer real close to the correct answer.) LOL Razz wishful thinking.

I like Scott's line of thinking for the answer though.

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chimera245 wrote:
Who was the author/writer of the original Short Circuit movie.

That would be my guess if I had the card.


The Original writing credits went to

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Brent Maddock
S.S. Wilson

Wink

Tried
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Brent Maddock
Maddock

No Go Though
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 		Well it's not:

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cinderella or shergar (the horse was thinking along the lines that the resistors were hurdles...) or dorothy (as in wizard of oz)


I've tried making a story out of the components but haven't been able to make one that makes any sense yet at all.

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 		And to that I can add

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Robert - as in the bruce, overcame lots of reistance
David - the component shapes at the bottom might have been a visual clue


So I think we have eliminated

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Gustav, Samuel, Charles, Alan, Nicholas, Thomas, Nikola, Jerry, Andre-Marie, Henry, Jesus, God, Ghandi, Nelson, Albert, Jean (?-Paul), Nacy (?Nancy), Alice, Johnny, Aileen, Janet, Brent, Maddock, Dorothy, Cinderella, Shergar, Robert and David. I'm going to add other names as they accumulate, so that's Elvis, Violet, Sente, Paul, Lemuel, Jonathan, Luigi, Alessandro, Macbeth, Oliver, Guglielmo, K, Bill, Phil, Anna, Buzz, Marilyn, Malcolm, Bastian, Nuri, Corazon, Fidel, Finnegan, Humphrey, Hannibal, Jordan

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 		I think we should pay more attention to the fact that the answer asks for the first name only. This makes it unlikely that it's going to be someone who wouldn't normally be identified by just their first name.
Tried and failed with the following:-
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Violet
Elvis
Sente


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 		I was thinking along the same lines. I wondered if the four circuits had any significance, ie someone who made four journeys.
I tried

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Paul, Jonathan(Swift) and Lemuel (Gulliver). Has anyone tried St. Paul


Locked out until tomorrow now.

Also, I think the circuit might be trying to show electron flow rather than conventional current, which might mean something is backwards to normal.

Who knows?

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 		Pepople keep saying four circuits... aren't there five?

*counts again

...And what's the little half moon symbol near the Galvanometer?


kalisco wrote:
I think we should pay more attention to the fact that the answer asks for the first name only...
Makes me think it will be a very unique first name.
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