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[Conner]

[SPEC] Whipsmart flavour puzzle

[Gurgi]

Whipsmart Day

[Sasuntsi Davit]

Re: Whipsmart Day

[geofortean]

Conner, you can join those dots up any number of ways though, especially the big purpley one... if it was supposed to mean something there would be a (still hidden) but more obvious pattern, surely.

[geekboyuk]

Have you noticed the stars on the background?

[BrianEnigma]

I have finally been able to sit down at a machine with Flash and a GUI with higher resolution than a TV and have finally looked at the Whipsmart page. It seems that a side effect (or perhaps it is the intended effect???) of those stars on the flavor page and the pasture page is that the tab key does not work for selecting elements. Most Flash movies will let you hit tab and it will cycle through the clickable parts--like hitting tab on a web page with an imagemap. In this case, tab just goes through a bunch of stars. On the pasture page, there are very obvious things you can click on--the cows, sheep, milkmaids, etc--things that react instantly and are not visible to the tab trick because of the stars. On the flavor page, the stars look like they are either tab-trick-hiding click points that do nothing (until maybe you click the right sequence?) or they are just there to spruce up an otherwise static page.

[BrianEnigma]

[PUZZLE?][SPEC] Whipsmart Flavors

[Dorkmaster]

You know, I thought that, but brushed it off immediately. You may be on to something, old chap... (See, I'm integrating with them British-folk! ) I don't want to even speculate as to what Monkey Puzzle would taste like... but I can't imagine that it's going to just sit there... perhaps we should ask Scarlett what it tastes like for a tip in the right direction?

[yanka]

You know, I wonder if that is in any way nodding to the monkeylove that we've been throwing around here when referring to non-existent directories and such

Btw, the flavor names are pretty clever - especially this one.

[Kastanok]

Nuts, anyone? It's likely monkey puzzle is a load of nuts.

[Violet]

...or confusing trees

[Mima]

How about peanuts? Peanut butter flavour?

[dthought]

Nuts are probably the right response and from the monkey puzzle tree.

This from Dictionary.net.

[Mikeyj]

I'm sure that a little farm shop place in Plympton, near Plymouth used to do a flavour called monkey puzzle...it was banana flavoured, but with lumps of something else in (hence the puzzle...monkey expecting nice banana...gets a lump of...?).

If this is a puzzle, then surely Sente's favourite flavour has to be important at some point (in my mind this is in the same place as Dumbledore's passion for every flavour beans).

[Salkunh]