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SilentlyBroken · Boot Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 37

[ivy set] #162 - Loopy Pixels

**Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:46 pm

SpinneNetz · Boot Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 19

Well, I can't be sure without owning the card, but the border seems to have 4 colors- Orange, Yellow, Brown, Tan.

The colors WITHIN the borders are a bit more tricky because the scan seems to have muddled the colors a bit. But I think theres:

Red: 2 (?)
Blue: 2
Peach: 2
White: 10
Yellow: 10
Orange: 11
Tan: 11
Black: 37
Brown: 45

There might be 2 different shades of brown, but I can't tell.

The Tan and Orange edges are bracketing a 1x11 area,
while the Yellow and Brown borders are both 10 squares long.

Because there looks to be exactly 11 Orange and Tan squares, they would fit exactly within the same colored borders. However, while there looks to be 10 Yellow squares to match the Yellow border, unless there are 2 different shades of Brown, this symetry breaks down.

[Edit: not sure why I thought the brown looked like like purple...]

fretty

What is the purpose of the 1st and 2nd labels.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:41 am

Curlytek

The arrows seem to indicate motion (spinning, rotating), but what exact purpose they hold, that will only be known when the puzzle is solved. It looks to me like a jumbled picture of Donkey Kong or Super Mario!

**Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:58 am

sixsidedsquare · Unfettered Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 409 Location: 60E

Well I might have it, I've unscrambled the blocks anyway.
Here's what I did

Method:

**Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:50 am

skenmy

**Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:55 am

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duckiemonster

For the record, it's not

**Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:38 am

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Grizy

Nice work Sixsidedsquare.

hturan · Greenhorn Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 9

Heh. I got the pic straight away. Thanks Sixsidedquare.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:07 pm

topsywright · Greenhorn Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

i dunno if i'm being blonde here, but i still can't see it, has anyone got the right answer?

**Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:46 pm

SilentlyBroken · Boot Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 37

Took me a while, and a lot of hints via pm in IRC, but I got it. And kicked myself after.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:55 pm

Guin

I thought it looked more like a:

**Posted:** Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:23 am

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padge · Boot Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 43

If anyone want's to try to solve this themselves, I've written a javascript version that lets you play around with it as much as you like. Don't know if it will be of any use to anyone but it helped me.

www.padge.com/162.htm

**Posted:** Sat Apr 15, 2006 2:10 pm

baf · Boot Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 46

Thanks! I managed to unscramble the picture correctly, but without the forum I never would have guessed in a million years what it was supposed to be.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:47 am

Quex · Boot Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 10 Location: Cannock, UK

I was a little confused by this one; got heavily distracted by the map piece on the back of #132 (looked a bit familiar).

**Posted:** Wed May 10, 2006 12:05 pm