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Deusovi
Deusovi
01:55
"skated" DEFINITELY sounds like a nudge.
Alconja
Alconja
02:05
hah, no. just people have discussed what step 8 must do, to the point of almost using words that map directly to the rebus.
just perhaps not in a single sentence/conversation
ffao
ffao
02:28
I've been staring at the step 7 and step 9 pictures for a long time now, but nothing
either it's not that straight-forward or I'm a dunce (or both)
but I'm guessing it's that I'm a dunce
Alconja
Alconja
You mean the resulting step 7/9 images, or the instructions themselves?
@ffao you mean in terms of solving the final rebus, or reverse engineering step 8?
ffao
ffao
reverse engineering 8, which you said should be easy
I'll keep trying
Alconja
Alconja
Talk me through what you believe it should "do"
Deusovi
Deusovi
Yeah, I'm curious too.
I think it refers to repeating some instruction or reversing one, but I can't figure out what the first part is supposed to mean.
Alconja
Alconja
02:48
(not really a hint, since it's what @ffao has already effectively done above, and presumably what (s)he's trying to do now): If someone took the time to do all steps cleanly and just skip step 8, it may be a little more obvious
Deusovi
Deusovi
Hm, alright. I've already done 1-7, so I'll just go to 9 and see what happens.
ffao
ffao
yep, you'll probably make less mistakes
my lines look something like
user image
and I have no idea what to make of that left side
but maybe I got something wrong
Deusovi
Deusovi
You're missing a line that completes the K.
iK cube?
user image
Vaguely reminds me of "rubIK's CUBE", but I might be wrong about that.
The cube also reminds me of one of the cubes in step 2.
ffao
ffao
there's probably a reason why one of the faces is shaded
Deusovi
Deusovi
03:03
"iK front?"
Step 8 could modify more than the turned tile, too.
Alconja
Alconja
There's a couple of errors in those pictures
Deusovi
Deusovi
Welp.
ffao
ffao
welp. [2]
Alconja
Alconja
but they're very close
since it would otherwise be painful monkey work and not "puzzling" - the square with the open circle should only end up with a line on the right, not both sides and as per my comment earlier (@Deusovi) you dropped your half line on the filled "*" square again...
Deusovi
Deusovi
Wow, again? Can't believe I missed that twice.
Alconja
Alconja
03:13
actually, you lost another line on that square too
Deusovi
Deusovi
Just noticed that too. Yeah, I probably should've offset the lines to begin with so it was clear which ones belonged to which square.
Alconja
Alconja
For what it's worth, I did my "test" version on paper so that it's impossible to mix things up. :) but yeah, thicker lines would've likely made it less error prone too
Deusovi
Deusovi
B...but you said not to use thicker lines!
Before instruction 1, even!
Alconja
Alconja
lol :)
Deusovi
Deusovi
(Also, here's the updated (presumably correct) picture:)
user image
Alconja
Alconja
03:15
that looks better
Deusovi
Deusovi
Now to figure out what 8 is supposed to do...
Alconja
Alconja
Don't you guys know how important it is to read the instructions carefully when making flat-pack furniture? :P
@Deusovi - exactly.. so what's wrong with the picture above that could've been fixed by step 8?
Deusovi
Deusovi
Well, obviously the turned part of the cube. Possibly something else on the left.
It should be turned again how it was in step 4.
...You wouldn't use zero-indexed instructions, would you? :P
Alconja
Alconja
ha, no. The instructions (should be) internally consistent
user189275
03:35
@Deusovi: We may be overthinking, the first part of 8, may just trivially mean rotate the 8.
user189275
Not sure about the third thing or the person being happy.
Wesley Situ
Wesley Situ
04:30
@Deusovi Wrote 8 Back Third Place :)
and you'll have your final thing fixed
before you did the resorting
user image
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ffao
ffao
what's "wrote 8 back third place" supposed to mean?
Wesley Situ
Wesley Situ
say it out loud
ffao
ffao
as I understand it we're rotating the fourth piece forwards?
Wesley Situ
Wesley Situ
oh maybe i got the wrong piece rotated... dang
haha
ffao
ffao
well, I like your idea for the first picture
Wesley Situ
Wesley Situ
04:39
well im pretty sure the 8 is Rotate
ffao
ffao
whatever the rebus actually solves to, I think the final effect will really be rotating that piece
so it makes sense
Alconja
Alconja
what do you assume the second part means then?
Wesley Situ
Wesley Situ
could be Behind
behind the third place might be the fourth place :P
Wesley Situ
Wesley Situ
05:07
another line of logic could be "Won Third" -> "One Third" of the 12 pieces is 4
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Beastly Gerbil
Beastly Gerbil
06:36
Nice!

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