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[S2] [Dice Set] #103 - Bush Bakery
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TwonkyJMA
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 		[S2] [Dice Set] #103 - Bush Bakery
Wow, I can actually contribute, usually days late to the party being a small retailer in the US getting my cards later...

Puzzle Text is in all caps:

In anticipation of a hard day's prospecting, Bob is preparing some damper for he and his mates to eat. The damper will take 30 minutes to cook in the campfire's ashes.

Bob doesn't have a watch, but he does have two spare fuses from his explosives. Each fuse takes 40 minutes to burn completely when lit, but neither burns at a constant rate.

How can Bob measure 30 minutes using the fuses?
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:14 am
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TwonkyJMA
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 		Re: [S2] [Dice Set] #103 - Bush Bakery
Clever little puzzle. Hint if you need it:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
consider lighting both ends the fuse...


PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:17 am
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Sarah Profit, being a little older proved to have a more complete tale. They had played in the snow, she said, and Kit, a lad more accustomed to his studies than to roustabout took more snowballs than he threw. The other lads and lasses teazed him a little for his bookishness. Whereat he, taking offence, declared that the street was but a poor place to play and that he knew a place where the snow would still be fresh and clean, and where no other children would disturb them. By alleys and back ways which I have shewn him, he took them to one of the small gardens of the Academy - utterly deserted through the bitter cold - where they had fine japes. At length, though, their boisterousness disturbed a Fellow of the Academy, who burst through one of the great doors - he could not say which one - and shooed them off. At his, Sarah declares, they ran and saw each other no more.

This is all the knowledge I have in this case. Anders Lee agrees with Sarah's story in all details - since they are close neighbours this is no great surprise - and I have never found William Oxbow at all, though I have enquired again and again no family of that name is to be found anywhere in the City.

For many months my wife and I did not cease enquiring, both in the City and the Academy. We came to be notorious for it, and I could no longer bend myself to my studies.

But it was not long after then that the great blight fell upon the City. So many mothers lost their sons, so many fathers their daughters, that it has been impossible to continue to hope for the life of one little boy, lost on a day of snow.


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e_nygma
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 		Mild quibble: Bush Bakery is card 103. If TwonkyJMA or a nice mod could fix that, it might help others.

All better now. Nothing to see here, move along, silly gooses.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:00 pm
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TwonkyJMA
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e_nygma wrote:
Mild quibble: Bush Bakery is card 103. If TwonkyJMA or a nice mod could fix that, it might help others.


D'oh my bad - and my apologies. I think I fixed it.
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Kradlum
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 		I tried the following, but got an incorrect answer. I think it is correct though?

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
light one end of the first fuse
light the other end of the first fuse (so this fuse will burn for 20 minutes)
light one end of the second fuse
wait 20 minutes
light the other end of the second fuse (this will now burn for 10 minutes)
wait ten minutes


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Kradlum wrote:
I tried the following, but got an incorrect answer. I think it is correct though?


I think the last time-step is an "unnecessary step".
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:40 am
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e_nygma
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 		If you have a solution and you could swear it is right (it looks almost like the one listed by Kradlum (minus the unnecessary step Methos pointed out):

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You need to light the first fuse on both ends and the second fuse at one end at the beginning.

As of right now, I can confirm it is wrong if you start by lighting both ends of the second fuse and just one side of the first fuse. I also suspect but cannot confirm that if you light the other end of the fuse before the first end that it is wrong.

Hopefully, once MC gets everything squared away with the system, they'll update the solve database. Realistically, there should be four valid solutions to this card.


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 		This card appears to still not work in Internet Explorer.

The solve that Kradlum gives 3 posts above is correct if you leave off the final step. However it is only accepted in Firefox not IE. Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:38 am
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TwonkyJMA
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Sophiecat wrote:
This card appears to still not work in Internet Explorer.

The solve that Kradlum gives 3 posts above is correct if you leave off the final step. However it is only accepted in Firefox not IE. Evil or Very Mad


My solve was entered in IE no problem (IE 7 on XP though).

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Eugenes Lair
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 		Strange Shapes in the Sky
DarkHuman has already posted this in another thread, but I thought it should also be mentioned here for completeness.

There is a strange sort of shadow in the photograph on this card. It can be most clearly seen in the sky towards the left, and looks rather like part of a spoked wheel. From the size of it, it looks like it should continue "outside" the card, but there's no similar marking on #104 (or any other cards, as far as I can tell).

PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:02 pm
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 		Alternative solution
Well I had an alternative solution for this one

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Light both ends of the first fuse then fold the second one in half and light both new ends


unfortunately they dont have these options Crying or Very sad
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