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hendo77 · Boot Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 51

#189 - Purple - Multithreaded

**Posted:** Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:01 pm

Curlytek

That front 'folding' is a very clever way to accurately define distance in a pseudo 3D picture!

**Posted:** Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:52 pm

deBaggio · Boot Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 12

Text Hint

**Posted:** Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:27 am

deBaggio · Boot Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 12

Any ideas on the significance of the orange 'beads' on various threads?

They seem to indicate a sequence or instructions on how to proceed but I haven't the foggiest what they're trying to tell us!!

**Posted:** Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:34 am

Teebor · Boot Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 67

Ok I get it now, its like one of those old wall hangings that you used to get years ago.

I'm locked out so I can't try it right now

**Posted:** Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:44 am

unrealt87 · Boot Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 66 Location: Guildford!

This is gonna be complicated.
You have to pass through EACH notch 4 times?!?
So i work it out as 1 notch x 4 passes x 4 notches to each side x 4 sides, But then you have to measure how long each side is!
This seems complicatedly easy for a purple.
Your thoughts?

**Posted:** Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:47 am

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Made me think of "How long is a piece of string?" Cool

**Posted:** Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:13 pm

deBaggio · Boot Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 12

Don't be silly, we solved the easy ones like that ages ago, this is a proper challenge.....aaaghh!

**Posted:** Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:42 pm

deBaggio · Boot Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 12

Has anyone come to a decision as to whether the black converging lines are 'notches' scored into whatever this tube is, or are we simply to wind around the beads as if they were pins? Or even whether the dashed edges are merely for perspective as suggested above or to guide our four laps of the card???!!!
This could be a hell of a lot of work for nothing if we don't even know where to start...

**Posted:** Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:53 pm

Austin · Boot Joined: 28 Feb 2006 Posts: 53 Location: uk

This might be horribly messy - nearest Metre wanted on the solution page.

Austin.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:23 pm

DarkHuman

**Posted:** Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:17 pm

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unrealt87 · Boot Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 66 Location: Guildford!

**Posted:** Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:11 pm

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zepheria · Boot Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Posts: 27 Location: Las Vegas, NV

I thought the notches might be the 20 x 28 dotted lines along the margins of the card, instead of the orange parts. I wrapped thread around the card to pass through each one one time and then measured and multiplied to get

**Posted:** Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:19 am

deBaggio · Boot Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 12

has anyone else had trouble entering solves for this one, I only got 2 goes yesterday, still waiting to get let back in?

**Posted:** Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:34 am

c1023 · Boot Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Hampshire, UK

I think that the short vertical and horizantal lines arround the edge of the card are the notches cut into the card. The picture is not showing depth, but black thread wrapped arround the card going from one notch, across the centre of the card to the diagonally opposite notch.

On the back of the card, the thread would go to the neighbouring notch, and then back to the front and across the centre to the new diagonally opposit notch. This process is repeated until all of the notches have been passed through 4 times.

I have no idea what the orange beads are for.

Chris

**Posted:** Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:37 am