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[thalamus]

[flames set] #198 - Headrush

[thalamus]

headrush scans

[Rand0m]

I looked at it and thought "bowling balls" - perhaps the different colours will give us a set of numbers to play with based on the weights?

Not wildly likely, I know, and not particularly relevant to the card title either, but we're just pushing ideas around at this stage, aren't we?

Are bowling ball colours and weights standardised?

[gingiber]

Headrush

[Edward Nigma]

Is the solve to work out which coloured disc falls within the most number of 'orbits' of the other discs or has the most in it's orbit?

As in the large mauve disc in the bottom left has 5 discs in its orbit yet it is only in 2 discs orbits

[thalamus]

[twixwolf]

A hint from Von says:

[Guin]

just a thought

[Rand0m]

If they're faces, I thought I'd try the Masquerade approach and draw lines, see if they pointed to anything. I used one 'eye' and the 'nose' as a basis for each line and ended up with:

[Stratman]

Can't see a pattern or significance, but there must be some reason why some balls have different numbers of 'orbits' around them - four, five and six.
Also it seems to me that no two balls are exactly the same colour - could Pantone numbers come into it?
Just thinking out loud...

[ahdok]

I know lots about tenpin bowling. I ran a local tenpin bowling league for five years, and have an average of about 165, (which is a bit crap actually.)

Anyway, There is no standard colouring system for bowling balls. AMF change their house ball colouring system every few years, and I think Brunswick do too. Also, if you buy your own ball, you can pretty much get any colour you like (mine is a lovely mix of bright yellow, forest green and flourescent pink.) - besides, every ball on the headrush card is a different colour anyway.

There is a standardisation for bowling ball size, actually, although it's simply "they're all the same" - this is to make it fair, and also because different sized balls will get stuck in the machines.

Standard bowling ball weights are in pounds, and, for house balls, multiples of 2. 8 pounds is about as light as you'll see, and, we're looking children to use them. most people who don't bowl regularly should use a 12, but if you're feeling macho, use a 14. Some people will use a 16, but they tend to have a little too much momentum to create nice movement in the pin deck. If you buy your own ball, you can get odd numbered weights.

American balls might be different, but I don't think they are.

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Knowing a lot about bowling doesn't seem to be helping with this card. I suspect bowling references to be defunct, at least in the first level of any solve.

[SocialElite]

I don't have the card so I can't really comment for certain, but am I correct in saying that it looks like the grey one in the center has *no* concentric circles radiating out from around it, despite its somewhat medium size?

[ahdok]

some more stuff that -might- be important.

[ahdok]

[fretty]

If it helps I count with great difficulty (card turned on side):

14 balls/faces with holes in bottom right
7 with holes in bottom left
7 with holes in top right
13 with holes in top left

I think that there is some way of joining them up but there will be one left over.