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[Sentinel]

[Ivy Set] #161 Dances With Bees

[fretty]

[thelayfields]

A little bee history

[zaeil]

I had to go find a pic of this card--this one really does need the visuals. If somebody would be so kind as to add a scan to this post, that'd help folks out a lot.

Anyway...here's a Wikipedia article on the fine art of the honeybee waggle dance. That info will help!

[X_X]

Can we get an image of this card, Expecially highlighting the letter pieces
on each corner?

[duckiemonster]

There are no letter pieces on this card.

[looosy]

Its not a good quality image but it might help you in the mean time

[looosy]

Having now spent about an hour reading about waggle dances I am still no nearer to finding the answer.

But I think the A to K letters and distances are possibly a red-herring and the flower is more related to the red line in the middle. It looks a bit like a pollen grain?

I also don't know the name of the pink flowers next to the letters, but knowing this might also help.

Any ideas?

[looosy]

This card makes much more sense when you realise what kind of answer you need!!

[donxkey]

I found this card suprisingly easy for a purple. maybe it was just luck but after reading

[cloudrun]

Yeah, it does seem easy but I tried G, I, K, A and C; all incorrect. Only seemingly viable one left is J but that isn't in line with the waggledance.

Someone put me out of my 'misery'. I'm beginning to think that I must have dreamed that I tried these letters because it makes little sense otherwise.

[Magma]

They could have at least made it tricky by showing the bee dancing on vertical honeycomb in a field with 3D perspective, and putting the sun at a nonarbitrary direction indicated by shadows on the flowers.

The vertical angle between straight up and the direction of the waggle is the same as the horizontal angle between the direction of the sun and the direction of the flower. By superimposing the vertical of the honeycomb and the horizontal direction of the sun, they took all the purpleness out of this card and made it more (shudders to think) yellow...

[Flynn]

[Stalker]

This type of dance is called the sickle dance and so relates differently to the basic waggledance.
I think there are three types of dance all helping with directions and distances of pollen from the hive.

[Corvus]

This card was easier than most Orange ones. The moment I saw the card I remembered a Nova episode about bee dances and I thought I knew the answer. It only took a few minutes to confirm it using Google.

This is disappointing because it's a great puzzle and MC could have made it much more difficult. As Magma pointed out, the sun and hive could have been at different angles, and they could have put another flower at the same angle but at a distance that would have elicited the Round Dance instead of a waggle dance.