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#133 [Flame] Don't Play With Your Food
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echidna
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 		#133 [Flame] Don't Play With Your Food
Apologies - I don't have a scanner but the card is as follows:

Card author - Caine
Nothing significant on the map on the back.

There's a drawing of Caine and some lucky young lady at dinner and the following text:

Quote:
Last Friday, I was out on a date with the newest, brightest and best-looking intern in the Academy Arts Department. Never mind Conundra (*so* 267) - I'd managed to get the top table at McGonigal's in Hardcastle Docks, since a friend of the sister of the girlfriend of the owner used to play in my band. By 'play', I mean 'occasionally serve drinks to'.

Anyway. Everything was going perfectly well until we started swapping puzzles. She was just knocking all of mine down, one after the other; she even managed to demolish my stock of favourite puzzles I only use for dating emergencies like this one! In desperation, I deployed one I'd just heard.

Working in a daze, I placed a coin on a plate, filled the plate with water so that it just covered the coin, and said, "You need to pick up the coin without touching the water, and all you have is an olive, a wine glass and a match. You're not allowed to touch the plate or just push the coin off it, but you can light the match. Sweetie."

It did the trick - she figured it out, but only by the time we got back to my apartment...


That's all. You have to love Perplex City though - a place where even being a handsome, intelligent rockgod isn't enough to get you laid, but a quick puzzle with an olive, a coin and a wine glass will win a girl over every time Very Happy .

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 		I'm going to guess that:
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you can use the olive to prop up the lit match above the waterline, then cover it with wine glass turned upside-down. The flame eats the oxygen in the glass, lowers the pressure, and causes water to rise up into the glass, leaving the coin exposed.

...but I'm not sure how you would enter that as a solution. What does the answer page look like?

And if that's correct, does it qualify me for a date with Caine Violet?
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BriEnigma wrote:
I'm going to guess that:
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you can use the olive to prop up the lit match above the waterline, then cover it with wine glass turned upside-down. The flame eats the oxygen in the glass, lowers the pressure, and causes water to rise up into the glass, leaving the coin exposed.

...but I'm not sure how you would enter that as a solution. What does the answer page look like?

And if that's correct, does it qualify me for a date with Caine Violet?


I have this card and have been trying along pretty much the same lines. The answer page is pretty complicated (think similar to the orange card Volume), but it does look like you'd be able to describe this method.. just in many different possible ways :-/ So, I've now used up all my guesses with various combinations of 'Place', 'Stand', 'In the', 'On the', 'Over', etc.... Sad
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echidna
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 		Me too Sad

I've tried
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1. Stand the olive on the plate
Place the match in the olive
Light the match
Place the wineglass over the olive

2. Place the match in the olive
Place the olive on the plate
Light the match
Place the wineglass over the match

3. Place the olive on the plate
Place the match in the olive
Light the match
Place the wineglass over the olive.

Just to stop anyone from wasting a go.

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she figured it out, but only by the time we got back to my apartment...


Caine you dirty dawg......Cue the dodgy 70's soundtrack Very Happy
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 		confirmed solve is:

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light the match, place the match in the olive, stand the olive on the plate, place the wine glass over the plate


*yay my first time in the 1st ten!!*

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 		I can confirm that the solve above failed for me. Entered in exactly (With N/A in both fields where needed) as above, triple checked, Incorrect.

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 		Magma the correct way

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light the match, place the match in the olive, stand the olive on the plate, place the wine glass over the olive

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 		Works for me Smile

Thanks

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she figured it out, but only by the time we got back to my apartment...

So... they just carried the plate full of water around until then?
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 		fun - I used to do that as a kid to amuse the family Smile
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 		wiked. Never tried this one before so I had to give it a go. I'm not ashamed to say it kept me and my brother amused for quite some time. Laughing

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 		Yup, it works Cool





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 		Caine's date looks SO unimpressed, lucky he pulled that puzzle out in the nick of time!

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 		That card is rubbish-comes down to only being blue difficulty because of the many different orders/combinations of entering the answer! The match could be put in the olive before lighting etc...Nothing enjoyable about solving that at all

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