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Puzzle Experiment #4

[Agent Lex]

I am banging my head repeatedly trying to get worm heads and owies to balance. They just won't! There's something wrong here, be it with the puzzle or my brain.

ETA: my thinking is as follows:
There are 6 positive worm heads total (3, 1, 1 and 1) , of which we need 5. So we definitely need the 3 worm heads, and two of the 1s. There are two basic ways to do this:

1. Take the fewest owies possible with the worm heads
We can take only 4 owies, if we include those from the 3-worm-head item. Now we can easily get -4 owies, but to do that, we need to take both -2 owies items, which gets us -1 worm head. To get back that worm head, we need to take 2 more owies, which we can't get rid of.

2. Take both sets of 2 owies with the worm heads
This way we have 5 owies total, which we can get rid of with all of the negative owies... but that gives us -1 worm head, leaving us with 4. To get that worm head back, we need to take an owie with it, which we can't get rid of.

[Tenchizard]

So... is this really a puzzle or I'm just too bored?
Anyway, I'm down to -2 owies (whatever they may be) which I don't know how to get rid of. Here's my recipe for a monster mom:
1 silver necklace
3 assorrted cakes
1 gift card holder
4 picture frames
1 calliope vase
1 flower basket
1 carnations
1 godiva chocolate

now add a mom and 2 owies, and you get a monster mom!

PD: it's not mother's day in my country. we have it fixed for the first sunday in may, so it was last week.

[catherwood]

[danteIL]

I have no idea what any of you are talking about.

I've seen the rest of the site, ( http://cheapgiftsformom.exofire.net/ ) and I see the spiders and owies and stuff, but I don't know what you mean by 'balancing' anything or whatnot.

If you want other people to follow along with what you're doing, it helps to clarify what's going on, please.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

When you look at the products, they all have properties. Some of which are negative values.

That said, I really feel like there's an error in the puzzle.
The easiest way to explain that is to say that there's no way you can use the Jewelry box (There aren't enough negative values in all the other items to offset the eight owies in its properties. But in order to get a total of eight Cat Tails, you need to order a Jewelry box.

Edit: Not paying enough attention. Technizard is way ahead of the curve on that point.

[Agent Lex]

I just realised something that I don't have time to work on right now. Why not order more than 1 of the same item? Would probably fix most of the problems, though add another layer of complexity.

[Tenchizard]

[Agent Lex]

So you did. Silly me.

[SuperSlug]

I have an order that adds up if someone wants to e-mail it in. (Sorry Omega, I don't know you well enough to share my e-mail.)

The Order:

[Agent Lex]

Email sent. Thanks, slug!

[Agent Lex]

Received reply, will post once I get to work and can c/p (I'm using the phone right now).

[SuperSlug]

[Agent Lex]

[Tenchizard]

So, this was a puzzle after all!
keep us updated, please!