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[S2] [Cards Set] #036 Jelly Beans
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PuzzledPineapple
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 		[S2] [Cards Set] #036 Jelly Beans
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To keep the Mind Candy staff motivated, a large jar of eight different flavoured jelly beans is kept in the office for anyone to help themselves.

How many beans would someone need to take out to be certain of getting three of the same colour?


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Drops of water streamed down the window obscuring my view. Behind the glass, I could make out people hurrying to and fro in the rain. Those without umbrellas tried to weave around the other passers-by quickly, while the rest plodded on, their mood matching the weather. Even The Point couldn't breach its temper. It stood, tall as ever, watching the day go by. I tore my eyes away from the scene, mumbling thanks to the waitress who'd brought my coffee. She told me to cheer up, told me it may never happen. Maybe it already had.

I sunk back into my chair. Red leather was never my thing, but it sure felt good. Looking around, I saw that the cafe was full of people sheltering from the rain, cosying up to a hot drink and creating little wet patches on the seats. The waitress headed back behind the counter. She looked so comfortable in her place, chatting to all the regulars, she must've been here for years. I don't know how she stands it. I wouldn't... couldn't live my life that way.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:59 pm
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Scott
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 		point of clarification: are those red, blue, green, yellow, black, & purple jelly beans? Six colors?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:15 pm
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PuzzledPineapple
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 		They are, in fact, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and black jelly beans (with little MC logos). I can only guess that somewhere on the card there is a very rare silver jelly bean to make it 8 colours. Extra points to the first person to find it!

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 		The background for this is the 1st half of a two parter narrative that is finished on the back of #035 - A-tribute-d. Just posted it on the forum, but I've added the text here for completness.

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#035 - A-tribute-d - Card reverse - (matches backgrounds with card #036 - Jelly Beans. #35 is the left hand side, #36 is the right hand and provides the first half of the narrative)

A group of people were nearby, stood watching someone play a new puzzle game. It looked complex - lights flashed, the guy reacted and I looked away. All round me, people were playing with puzzles in different ways. A girl sat alone at the counter swivelling in her chair, pen in mouth, puzzle book open. Across the room, people looked at their keys, passing the time with the latest Sentinel riddles. Even a glance at the clockwouldn't get you a straight answer, the squares chanign the code each second. I took a sip of the coffee. It tasted bitter; filter coffee of course. Well, how else could they offer bottomless cups? Then I remembered, I wasn't drinking here for the quality.

The door opened again, causing the room to shiver. This time though, the intruder caught my eye. No bustling entrance, no over exaggerated gestures of relief, just quickly in and to a table. The waitress ambled over to her, listing today's specials. Not for her. Just coffee; black lots of sugar. I grabbed a napkin from the holder. It asked me, "When's the best time to have lunch?" and I screwed it into a ball. No riddle for me thanks.

If this was her, she wasn't what I was expecting. But then I guess I didn't really know what to epxect. I shuffled from behind my table and headed towards her. She didn't turn.

I opened my mouth and everything changed.

"Hi."


Glad to be in at the start of this season and looking forward to being perplexed all year!

p.s. your scan of the back is much clearer than mine, Pineapple. What resolution do you recommend scanning these things in at so I can do a better job in future?

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PuzzledPineapple
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Hevster wrote:
p.s. your scan of the back is much clearer than mine, Pineapple. What resolution do you recommend scanning these things in at so I can do a better job in future?


I've been scanning them in at 150 dpi then rescaling to 300 pixel width to comply with MC rules. This is mainly because that's the lowest dpi option on the simple interface I have, I couldn't be bothered to go into the advanced options when rescaling worked fine. TBH, I don't think the initial resolution makes that much difference - my scans aren't brilliant and I did mess around a bit to try and get them clearer. I think it's more the scanner (at least when you're using one that came free with the computer!).

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 		I liked this card. It's a lot like a math problem I had in the sixth grade, except then it was for a pile of black socks and white socks and a kid who didn't want to open his eyes in the morning.

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simonaubrey
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 		Answer Spoiler ahead!!

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17

as it is possible to have 2 of each colour i.e. 16 beans and therefore to Guarantee 3 of one colour a 17th bean must be taken.




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Has anyone else noticed that the bottom half of this card works like a Magic Eye puzzle? Not sure if this is intentional or not, because I can't really make any legible picture out of it other than two vertical lines, or what might be a rectangular object at the bottom middle. The top half of the card doesn't seem to work. Perhaps it is just coincidental but if anyone else sees something more, I'd be curious to know.


PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:23 am
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 		Magic eye?
Hi, I'm new to this but I thought I'd give it a go. Looking at my card too I thought there could be a magic eye picture, on the bottom the black jelly beans seem to make something, and the top there is a similar yellow pattern. Maybe we're looking too deep into the puzzle, but then again maybe it's the start of a discovery! At least were on the same wavelength Astrix.

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PuzzledPineapple wrote:
They are, in fact, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and black jelly beans (with little MC logos).

Actually (to my eyes at least) there seems to be red, black, yellow, blue, light green, dark green, pink and purple. Not that it's important Smile Also, there are some jelly beans that appear to be two colours, because of the tiling of the image - e.g. down near the bottom right corner there's one that's half red and half yellow Laughing
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PuzzledPineapple
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myf wrote:
PuzzledPineapple wrote:
They are, in fact, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and black jelly beans (with little MC logos).

Actually (to my eyes at least) there seems to be red, black, yellow, blue, light green, dark green, pink and purple. Not that it's important Smile Also, there are some jelly beans that appear to be two colours, because of the tiling of the image - e.g. down near the bottom right corner there's one that's half red and half yellow Laughing


My word, you're right. I'm not usually that colour blind. So what gives? I thought the rainbow/card colours was neat, but now... I'm very disappointed. Ho hum.

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