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[Scribe]

Re: Order Spec

[remlin]

I'm wondering if some potentially useful information is which card each pathway winds up on. Is there any way to find that out? The only map I know of is perplexcitymap.com, but that only has the card backs.

[GameCatW]

Slightly Drunk Spec

[BrianEnigma]

[GameCatW]

Random Shot

[Scribe]

S/M? Maybe that's M&S and I have to go and buy some socks and shirts...

Cheers for that link, Bri, very useful. I did start tracing which card corresponded to where each of the 4 paths CT gave us ended on, but I think this is a bit of a dead end because:

a) extra maneuvring at the end (e.g. 214 for the 2- string) don't move you on to another card. (AFAICS, the string could have ended with 12...)
b) I couldn't find any other way of getting the letter CT provides with the card.

Still, there might be something in it. CT did say that "There was meaning in every street, in every turn", which may indicate that the journey taken, as well as the end point, is important.

Hmm, off to sleep on it.

[Cooldrew]

This is probably going to be disregarded, but her goes.

When I was much younger, I got a puzzle in school. Basically, it had a map on it, unlabeled, and a string of letters. It asked, which one of these countries was not like the others?
It took me forever, but I realized something. The names of all but one of the countries from the map were scrambled in the string! figured out what countries were on the map, and crossed them out from the list of letters.

So, my spec is this. Do we have a list of all the Risk territories we've seen so far? I say we look at the names of the territories, and see if any of them are in the long string we get from combining the number strings together. Anyone want to get to work on this? I have finals, so my week is shot

[ampetrizzo]

I tried to match the letters we came up with to Risk territories, but I got stopped with the very first letter (The only country with an "f" being Afghanistan, and it's not the 3rd letter but the 2nd). It's possible that each of the 42 letters corresponds to a Risk territory but it's not through that angle.

(Working on my term paper myself, Cooldrew. Or rather, pointedly not working on it, seeing as I'm trolling the forums >.< )

[ixalon]

[Mima]

I am hopeless at coding, and this might not even be what you were talking about, but is it possible that "arboreal" could be the key as we were given this at the start of the end game, rather than a feature?

[James Siegesmund]

More spec...

Remember the part of "Ticks" where CT said "There was meaning in every street, in every turn, in every paving stone"? What if we have to either 1) take letters not just from the end streets, but also from the streets we travel on to get there, and/or 2) Ascribe some meaning to the turns we took, maybe by transposing those letters based on the final turn (i.e. -1 for right turns, +1 for left turns, or +1 for going straight, -1 for taking a turn).

I tried several ideas based on this to no avail, but here's why I think this is a good idea: I see three pieces of still-unused information (or at least unanswered questions) in the number strings.

First, why take multiple steps down the end street? As has already been discussed, several strings end with multiple steps down the same street, which is pointless as we now understand the strings' meanings.

Second, why not take the shortest route? I.e., if CT wanted to end the first string on Reflex Way, why use "1-14443432.5" instead of just "1-343.5" (or 1-344.54.5, if for some reason the ending intersection matters)?

Finally, why go to such distant streets from Key Square? If the first string was just supposed to get us the letter "F", why not just make the first string "1-14-1," and get the "F" from Free Flow?

Even my previous idea (that the intersecting street had some meaning) leaves #2 unanswered. On the other hand, all three questions would be answered if each street traveled on and every turn (or lack of a turn when continuing straight) taken mattered . . . somehow.

[Peter Blake]

[SPEC] Link with Thirteenth Labour?

[rose]

[jonc]

So we use the first part of the number string (before the - ) to determine which corner of key square to start from.

What do we use the other end of the number string for?


Also, could this link in anyway to ticks? Presumably those numbers must mean something, could they relate to the same routes?