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[almagest]

Does anyone have anything to say in favour of this card? For goodness sake, the required answer is not even his first name (it is his third)!

The detailed circuit on the card appears to be a red herring. Instead, it is intended to indicate electric circuit theory in a vague kind of way. There are then at least a dozen, and arguably two dozen or more, better candidates. So you are supposed to keep guessing until you get the right answer. This is ludicrous (although no worse than 225 or 233).

Or have I missed something?

[rlp6028]

[Agent Lex]

[rosemary]

I thought Mooch had it with his explanation of the resistor figures.

[Cinana]

[almagest]

[almagest]

[quote="Cinana"]

[AngusA]

[Cinana]

From wiki search on Ohm's law.

"What is known today as Ohm's law was proposed by the physicist Georg Simon Ohm. In 1826 he gave a mathematical description of conduction in circuits based on Fourier's study of heat conduction..."

Lots of reading, clicking on extra links, etc.


Like I said: It's all in how you interpret the card. For some, they saw one thing, that I can not understand, and others can't see my reasoning.

I honestly believe the answer should have been Edwin Armstrong.

I kept seeing "resistors" I visualize them on a board, like a mother-board. They generate heat. etc etc.

/shrug

Perception is an odd thing.

[relissh]

perhaps when (if!) the cube is found, MC will put up some explantions to the puzzles?

[Furry Mark]

[Ringtail]

Everyone seems to be getting the correct first name but there seems to be a lot of dissagreement over who it's actually supposed to be and how it links in with the puzzle.

When I guessed the answer I was working along the thought pattern that the circuit we were looking at was

[AngusA]

Nice one Ringtail. That sounds fairly plausable. I went down the telegraph route and was convinced it was Gauss.

[obrienk]

to be fair, that makes far more sense than my answer

[almagest]

Hmmm. Well inductance makes more sense than heat, I suppose. At least the counting works.

I am not sure about the early circuit stuff - as many people have pointed out, it is an obvious nonsense circuit

I still think this is a fairly awful puzzle.

Indeed, it is distressing that PC's idea of hard puzzles seems to be either (1) requires a large number of guesses, or (2) requires a large amount of computer time. If you look at the silvers as a whole, there are not many puzzles I would call good! (Unless, that is, we are missing something on the unsolved ones).