Can you check out the fourth and fifth bulletpoints?
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Can you check out the fourth and fifth bulletpoints?
Let's call that "word play". Both are true.
Okay - in which case, please check your inbox. I think it covers all the criteria including the wordplay.
Edit: In case you're wondering, I didn't get it quite right. This what comes of trying to do it on a train on your iPhone. I attempted to memorise the criteria and then figure the problem out by drawing with my fingertip in a patch of condensed breath on the train window.
I was travelling, by the way, with a colleague, and I told him I was defining the payment structure for the contract we were travelling to a client site to discuss.
Is it about time for a hint?
HINT:
Consider a thread that begins with 4 posts by the following people: Allan, Bob, Bob (again), and then Carl. Who posted first in the thread? Who posted second? Who posted third?
I needed about 8 posts to meet all conditions, but ^ is helpful
Oh, have I been missing all the fun?
I am sorry but have been busier than usual this week. Will give play around with this one today while at work.
Well, now that everyone (incl. Scher and Mick) has had a fair chance to consider and take a crack at it, I think it'd be fine if we just posted solutions in the thread as normal. Send me a private message if you want, or if there's a particular question, but otherwise I think using the thread is perfectly fun and fair. Mick just sent me a pretty funny compilation of possible offensive posts, actually...
Anyhow, here's another HINT:
It might be the case that a certain person only posted once, and that he or she was the LAST to participate. However, that doesn't mean he or she posted the last post in the thread... For example, a person that had posted EARLIER than him or her might post again, AFTER he or she did.
EXAMPLE: This is page 39 of this thread. As of this post (number 577), I am the LAST person to participate on this page. However, isn't it also true that I participated before Scheherezade did, on this page...?
Try to deduce who did Post Number One in the puzzle, and then who could have done Post Number Six...
Been trying but not getting anywhere.
Just want to ask whether the same poster can make two consecutive posts as I have been trying to avoid this.
They can (but it doesn't happen).Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
(EDIT: I think you guys can get this one. Again, begin by figuring out who did post number one and who did post number six. It's of course easy for me to say, though... I'm really quite delighted that it's proven such a challenge. But if you feel like you're getting too bored with it to really apply the analysis anymore, and would rather work on something else, please maybe provide some delicate hints... I'm thinking tomorrow or later today, I could give a clue/approach that would make this thing easier, but it might be a dead give-away. What with schedules and other things, for all I know everyone is just getting started on this.
Basically, I don't want to become the dude with the boring puzzle that killed the thread. But I think this thing is doable by you guys.)
Another HINT/strategy for solving:
Focus on IamNobody and Scher. I think you should probably be able to determine the order in which their posts occur in the thread.
nevermind
How's this (I modified opinions and language for the public domain)
1 Scher- "Chavs are misunderstood children "
2 IAN- replies to (1) "I think they need a jolly good talking to" Replying to scher for the first time
3 Mick replies to (1) "Misunderstood!! String em up, I say" Thus post (1) has 2 replies
4 Mark replies to (2) "**!!@@/#~!!!" Thus Mark replies to the reply of the OP and is the last of the four to participate.
5 Sher replies to (3) "You can't do that!" Thus Sher replies to Mick
6 IAN replies to (5) "He has a point though." Thus she replies to Scher twice and is last to participate.
Ta dar!!
Close! However, one of the clues states that Scher replies to Mick and IamNobody. But you most certainly do not have to *totally* revamp your attempt, it really is pretty close.
Ok, brain just about frazzled.
1- Mick is op
2- Scher replies
3- IaN replies to Scher for first time.
4- Mark replies to Scher (2nd reply for 2nd post)
5- Sher replies to IaN
6- Ian replies to Scher for the second time.
Yes, that's the solution--thanks for working it through and bringing an end to its tortuous reign. I feel like I should apologize or something, because it was harder than I expected, and it probably made people a little frustrated and crazy. I mean puzzles are supposed to do that, but I can't help but feel guilty taking up five days. To think, my initial fear was that it would be done too soon for everyone to get a shot at it...
I guess there were too many clues, perhaps, and it's a little different kind of logic puzzle than the usual ones with grids.