By shooting it from within the ride, and focusing on the view, rather than the action, it didn’t give me much of an idea of what the car is actually doing.
It was a bit dizzying when it apparently went over the top, but I couldn’t see the side to side travels.
I think it works like this: The attachment on the outside, where you expect all of the cars to be, has a trapeze to the top of the swinging cars (some are clearly fixed in the outer position). At some point it releases the cars to swing and get captured by the inner ring. Later, they are released to swing back out. Look closely at the JPEG and you can see the arms of the trapezes going from the top of the cars to the outer ring.
An American locomotive and the term “Railroaders” doesn’t seem to quite fit in with the LSW Railway. Plus you don’t need sleeping coaches (We don’t use the term ‘Cars’ over here to describe coaches and wagons) on that short of a railway. Additionally we called the people who actually built the railways “Navvies” as it was the same men who dug and built the ‘Navigations’ i.e. the canals.
The answer as I see it:
Accepting; each pair of boots represents only one number ‘x’ and not boot + boot = 2boot’.
Accepting that each eraser (I found its image associated with an education site) represents only one number.
Accepting that each pair of bottles follow the same rules as the boots.
Accepting that erasers holding bottles and the bottles’ value are added together to make a combined value.
Accepting the single boot and the bottle in the final problem (very Sherlock Holmes that) represents the value of their respective pairs divided by 2.
Mathematical rules of precedence are followed.
3 pairs of boots = 30 ∴ each pair of boots = 10
2 erasers and a pair of boots = 20 ∴ each eraser = 5
Here’s the official answer (Susan, as usual, has it).
Grumping:
They’re there, but not in proper form, and mathematical puzzles are supposed to be clear……at least I think so.
You can click on the spoiler box content to expand it.
Behold the vending machine?
one boot equals 5
same goes for one machine
6 bottles (machine’s hands!) equal 12, so one equals 2
5 + (11 times 2) equals 27
Assuming something I consider a spoiler, but Alexi, you’ve already given it away, which is that there are bottles in the green guy’s hsnds, which count the same as big ones…
I get….
The same as Tigressy at first:
therefore one boot=5, one green guy=5
One bottle=2
If we’re using the currently taught rules of precedence,
Then the last equation goes….
One boot plus (one green guy holding three bottles and wearing boots times two)
Thanks… Actually, I think I just said it backwards.
Rereading it, I realize that I would always have done it just the way I did it, to come up with 47…
Yes, of course, multiply Mr Green and his possessions (added together) by 2 then add the boots.
So in that case, you add, then multiply, then add…. Dunno how that works with your rule but I think you followed my reasoning, and we’d do it the same way.
…
But according to the videos I saw… now the kids are taught to do all operations in linear order….
so THEY, not me, would add the boots to Mr. Green and his stuff before multiplying it all by two, because the + came before the ×.
They’d get 52.
I need to stop watching those, before I get more confused.
Good math is ruined by poor eyesight. I can’t easily see that the big green thing is holding bottles in some of the equations. (no spoiler, I think it’s only fair that contents of the puzzle be clear).
Yeah, too bad it wasn’t the Lost Ark of the Twinkies.
They would be the perfect storage food… If they were only edible.
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So for the last couple of days I’d noticed that my cat Ivy had been licking around her nether regions quite a lot, so got her down the vet this morning. I thought she’d possibly got a urinary infection, but fortunately it wasn’t. It turned out to be blocked anal-glands, which is very unusual in a cat. The vet expressed them, and got out lumps the size of a sultana, which is why she must have been very uncomfortable. Ivy was very good during the procedure, and while not happy with me taking her to the vet, must be (Hopefully) somewhat more comfortable with life, the universe, and everything!
Our first cat had an impacted anal gland, when the vet squeezed it the cat bit into my arm as I was holding him — good thing I had a heavy jacket on at the time.
And I still remember the stench!
Ivy was very good, bit into my jacket sleeve once, but after that just huddled against me into the crook of my arm. Surprisingly, to me, there was no real smell.
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Sealed with a kiss.
Kissed with a seal.
Water doggy!
Seal or sea lion?
How do you tell if you can’t see their ears or flippers?
I would guess not a harbor seal. But i could be wrong.
Pinniped!
Safest guess!
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I’ve always wondered about that wheel.
Well, I wonder why some of the cars (?) are on the outer wheel but most of them are on the inner one.
Or are they moving from one to the other…. in which case… eeek!
Otherwise, though, why have a huge wheel?
Here it is in action.
Here\s WIDIPEDIA on it.
By its website, it’s closed for the season.
Now I wonder how often people lose their lunch on this. (Thanks for the video, Alexi).
By shooting it from within the ride, and focusing on the view, rather than the action, it didn’t give me much of an idea of what the car is actually doing.
It was a bit dizzying when it apparently went over the top, but I couldn’t see the side to side travels.
I did see enough, however, to say “no thank you.”
I think it works like this: The attachment on the outside, where you expect all of the cars to be, has a trapeze to the top of the swinging cars (some are clearly fixed in the outer position). At some point it releases the cars to swing and get captured by the inner ring. Later, they are released to swing back out. Look closely at the JPEG and you can see the arms of the trapezes going from the top of the cars to the outer ring.
If I’m looking at the right thing… those trapeze arms seem awfully long.
What keeps them from swinging the other direction, I wonder… Outward, I mean, way past the outer ring.
Whether or not they can… I still say no thanks!
one or both of these creatures must be an alien
I wonder if the models really were related.
Looks quite AI generated from the look of the fingers, and several other details.
yes, that child’s hand isn’t quite right…and notice the creepy blending of facial skin between the two
And the plastic sheen of the child’s skin.
Is it a painting?
Looks like one to me.
I hope it’s a painting or AI… cos if it were a photo of real people I’d have to worry about the little girl’s creepy-looking right hand.
the hand looks deformed to me, too.–I thought the lack of separation between their faces
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The one on the bottom is excited !
The middle one resembles ours.
I’m thinking food is involved
Or a laser pointer.
No one saw the exclamation point?
Sure did.
Waiting for Mickey Mouse to come out.
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This has to have been a protest flyer, if it’s genuine..
An American locomotive and the term “Railroaders” doesn’t seem to quite fit in with the LSW Railway. Plus you don’t need sleeping coaches (We don’t use the term ‘Cars’ over here to describe coaches and wagons) on that short of a railway. Additionally we called the people who actually built the railways “Navvies” as it was the same men who dug and built the ‘Navigations’ i.e. the canals.
It’s a poster by Montreal’s BleuBlancRouge advertising agency for Ubisoft’s “Assasins Creed : Syndicate”. video game.
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Deja vu.
oh. is this a rerun from a short time ago?—sorry!–the old person who lives in my brain sometimes fouls up the works
here’s a replacement–
HAHAHA
There’s nothing in your spoiler box, but
Times two
Accepting; each pair of boots represents only one number ‘x’ and not boot + boot = 2boot’.
Accepting that each eraser (I found its image associated with an education site) represents only one number.
Accepting that each pair of bottles follow the same rules as the boots.
Accepting that erasers holding bottles and the bottles’ value are added together to make a combined value.
Accepting the single boot and the bottle in the final problem (very Sherlock Holmes that) represents the value of their respective pairs divided by 2.
Mathematical rules of precedence are followed.
3 pairs of boots = 30 ∴ each pair of boots = 10
2 erasers and a pair of boots = 20 ∴ each eraser = 5
2 bottle pairs + eraser/bottlepair = 17 ∴ each bottle pair = 4
So: boot + eraser/3bottles × bottle translates as 5 + 11 × 2 = ?
5 + 11 × 2 = 27
To paraphraise a poosting too daze ago I did alot of my best proofreading aft her I hit inter.
This is the third or fourth time I’ve posted this.
Look again…
AAAARRRRRRGGHHHH ! ! !
This was one of those times I wasn’t as right as I could have been……. 😎 …… 😴 It’s fixed now.
Thanks to you, I’ve reviewed my previous (wrong) answer – but please don’t give any hints in the spoiler tag!
Grumping:
They’re there, but not in proper form, and mathematical puzzles are supposed to be clear……at least I think so.
You can click on the spoiler box content to expand it.
one boot equals 5
same goes for one machine
6 bottles (machine’s hands!) equal 12, so one equals 2
5 + (11 times 2) equals 27
Um…
I think you guys are leaving out something:
Assuming something I consider a spoiler, but Alexi, you’ve already given it away, which is that there are bottles in the green guy’s hsnds, which count the same as big ones…
therefore one boot=5, one green guy=5
One bottle=2
If we’re using the currently taught rules of precedence,
Then the last equation goes….
One boot plus (one green guy holding three bottles and wearing boots times two)
Or
5+((5+6+10)x2) =5+(21×2)=47
Kudos!
So do I.
The lack of parentheses is also unfair.
It’s not a well designed puzzle.
Meanwhile, I was taught, back in the time of dinosaurs, that without parentheses, all addition comes first.
Had I not watched a couple of videos in the last few years about viral math problems, and seen the arguments over methodology
Added the boot (5) to the green guy and his possessions (21) making 26
And multiplied that by 2, making the answer 52.
I don’t think I’m the only one.
The third equation should have parentheses to be clear!
Here in Germany we were taught “Punkt vor Strich” in the early Seventies.
Punkt is point, right…. Google translate says strich is “line”…
Point before line?
I don’t get it… Must not be translating correctly.
…
But also, I don’t know when it changed, if indeed it did.
You may be enough younger than me that you learned differently.
“Point” like in multiplying and dividing, “line” like in adding and subtracting.
Thanks… Actually, I think I just said it backwards.
Rereading it, I realize that I would always have done it just the way I did it, to come up with 47…
Yes, of course, multiply Mr Green and his possessions (added together) by 2 then add the boots.
So in that case, you add, then multiply, then add…. Dunno how that works with your rule but I think you followed my reasoning, and we’d do it the same way.
…
But according to the videos I saw… now the kids are taught to do all operations in linear order….
so THEY, not me, would add the boots to Mr. Green and his stuff before multiplying it all by two, because the + came before the ×.
They’d get 52.
I need to stop watching those, before I get more confused.
Good math is ruined by poor eyesight. I can’t easily see that the big green thing is holding bottles in some of the equations. (no spoiler, I think it’s only fair that contents of the puzzle be clear).
Me too.
I missed all that in my first attempts.
But it was so simple I thought there must be a trick so I kept on looking.
I couldn’t see the extra bottles or boots till I took off my glasses and enlarged the image, with my nose a few inches from my tablet!
I got two.
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I would pay attention to him.
Me too.
Ducking the lasers.
…
Oh yeah this goes over well in the 21st century.
Indeed! – Why “he”?
Is he part giraffe? that neck doesn’t look right to me.
…ball?…
Indy has saved the Long Lost Ark…. and his fedora!
Not to mention the long lost kibble inside the Long Lost Ark.
He has escaped poison darts, a treacherous chasm, and other threats.
….
Another danger awaits him now….
Even though the adventure is theoretically over.
He may have escaped the mysterious curse by making it out of the cave with his prize… (and his hat…)
But if his hunger pangs get the better of him….
There might be a more-than-mystical digestive effect from eating 2,000 year old kibble!
Make that Twinkies and you’re good…
Yeah, too bad it wasn’t the Lost Ark of the Twinkies.
They would be the perfect storage food… If they were only edible.
So for the last couple of days I’d noticed that my cat Ivy had been licking around her nether regions quite a lot, so got her down the vet this morning. I thought she’d possibly got a urinary infection, but fortunately it wasn’t. It turned out to be blocked anal-glands, which is very unusual in a cat. The vet expressed them, and got out lumps the size of a sultana, which is why she must have been very uncomfortable. Ivy was very good during the procedure, and while not happy with me taking her to the vet, must be (Hopefully) somewhat more comfortable with life, the universe, and everything!
Our first cat had an impacted anal gland, when the vet squeezed it the cat bit into my arm as I was holding him — good thing I had a heavy jacket on at the time.
And I still remember the stench!
Ivy was very good, bit into my jacket sleeve once, but after that just huddled against me into the crook of my arm. Surprisingly, to me, there was no real smell.
Yay Indie!
Ok, this is weird….
Where’s Nighthawks and the puzzle?
Hopefully just connection issues.
I hope so!
Or maybe he fell asleep!
I’m up quite late, so if he gets up early and posts the puzzle before I fall asleep, I might get a chance to post the solution soon after.
But if that doesn’t happen…. sorry… it’ll be pretty late.
It’s alive!!! Err awake.
Technical issues on WordPress’s side.
Yay!
I DID fall asleep, but that was after I tried multiple times to connect.
I woke a little after 2 and tried again, with success
bingo