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[HitsHerMark]

[SOLVED] #85 Yellow Maze - Sweet Dreams (E3)

[nichtwahr]

I recognize this series. Very golden-meanish.
I assume the 31 is 34; it looks like it from the scan.
Anyway, the answer is 514229.

[joolsweb]

Answer?

[dusty2229]

514229

http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibtable.html#fib100

[dusty2229]

damn i'm just tooooo late
do i still get a card?
pretty please

[SteveC]

This seems pointlessly easy for #85? Aren't they supposed to get difficult as they get higher?

514229 in case there's a card in it for me

I guess it's not easy to come up with so many puzzles and keep them all innovative and clever.

[tangohead]

yup is 514229( its on the wall in the room i have maths at school )

[Leeravitz]

Oh, those Fibonacci numbers!! They get everywhere, don't they? (from Whitley Strieber to Dan Brown...)

Can't see what relevance it has, other than being another subtle pointer in the direction of what the sequence is doing, but I vaguely recall that the design of a Nautilus Shell is considered to have something to do with the Fibonnaci sequence - it's one of those occurrences in nature, where the number ratio gets automatically repeated, or something. I can't honestly recall how it works - something to do with whether the shell spirals left or right as it grows...

Anyway, that could be something to do with the otherwise slightly anomalous mention of the paperweight...

And can anyone see a pun in this particular title? What's 'sweet' about the dreams???

[tanner]

yep -- the size of the chambers follows the series

[Leeravitz]

Not really anything to do with the puzzle, other than that it incorporates the picture on the front of the card...but I assume Violet's picture is a portrait of Sente, herself, Scarlett...and there's another sister there too, seemingly...

I think all the girls look to be about the same age, and the mother is conspicuously absent...

But we've already been told that the card relates to Violet in her youth...

Did something happen to this missing 'sister' between now and then??

[Enigmaster]

[HitsHerMark]

nichtwahr and Joolsweb please PM me with a mail address.

[Leeravitz]

Oh, yeah. Now, I look at it carefully, she does appear to be a) holding onto Sente's side in a proprietorial fashion and b) her face and body are rather more elongated than the girls' - thus, making it appear that she's somewhat older than they are. I suppose it looks a bit ambiguous because: a) Violet and Scarlett could have had a very much older sister and b) she seems to be a lot younger looking than Sente - but that could be explained through the fact that he had a younger wife, had a very good looking wife who aged well etc.

They are undeniably a fairly happy family group as depicted here, so maybe, yeah, there is some deep tragedy in the background to Violet and Scarlett's lives...

The hair colour issue is fair enough - one of the girls appears to be dark haired, and the other is light haired. The dark - haired one must be Violet, and the light - haired one Scarlett (although the picture makes it look like she has blond hair, rather than red). The 'mother' figure also has blond hair, and Sente is dark. It's quite right that the genetics wouldn't condition inheritance that blindly, but maybe there is meant to be an allegorical implication that Violet is more 'like' her father and Scarlett more like her 'mother'???

I would assume that the picture may have been taken at a date well prior to the date at which the puzzle is 'set'. By that, I mean, that the puzzle talks about Violet's youth, and it looks like the main depiction on the card is meant to represent that period in Violet's life (precisely the night she fell asleep dreaming of Fibonacci numbers, in fact). The family photo was probably several years before this: the girls look (proportion wise) like they are still little kids; Violet doesn't yet seem to have adopted glasses [unless she just took them off for the photo!] and Scarlett might have had blond hair because it hadn't yet shaded into red [that happens - I was blond when I was was young, and am now brown/red haired], so maybe this was taken when they were, say, three or so, and Violet's dream happened when she was in her early teens??

I forget if we know how old Violet and Scarlett are now, exactly (is Sacrlett 18?) - I tend to assume Violet's older, although I may be wrong on that. Again, I'm not sure whether we know or not how many years separate them...

Admittedly, all this is further idle spec. on the basis of a drawing seen remotely at second - hand - one might as easily conclude there was something peculiar about the Kiteway family because they would seem (from the photo) to have been devoid of noses!

But in the absence of much further puzzle solving to do...

[Leeravitz]

Having just re - read that last post, I hope it makes sense. It's a little bit stream of consciousness

[Violet]

I believe Scarlett's 19 and Violet's 25, but I'm too depressed about the footie to check