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| Dave Rathbun |
 Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:42 am Post subject: What Am I? e$500 Challenge |
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I'm starting another puzzle to go along with my Math Challenges puzzle. I hope this one will be fun as well. Since I'm not sure how active the topic will be, I'm starting the prize money at e$500 and will move up if the topic gets active. If you haven't figured it out, the money I pay out in prizes in the math challenge is essentially the money that I get "paid" for posting the puzzles so there's no net out of pocket expense for me.
So what is this challenge? Simple.  I got my boys a USB microscope for Christmas last year, and it has three different magnification settings. I am going to take an item that is small enough to fit in the microscope and take a picture at 200X magnification and post it. You guess what it is. The first correct guess wins e$500, with the potential to be more if the topic is active.
If nobody gets the item right away, ask for a hint. I might give one. 
After a few days at 200X magnification I will post an image at 60X magnification. After a while at that level, I will post something at 10X magnification. Hopefully someone will get the right guess at that point. If nobody does, I will post an image that will essentially give away the answer, and the first person to post will win the prize.
I hope this will be fun.
So, without further ado, here's your first "What Am I?" challenge picture:
200x Magnification
This picture shows a product made by one of the companies in the S&P 500 index. That's your first - if not very useful - hint.  |
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| Grimreaper |
| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:58 am Post subject: Re: What Am I? e$500 Challenge |
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| Dave Rathbun wrote: | I'm starting another puzzle to go along with my Math Challenges puzzle. I hope this one will be fun as well. Since I'm not sure how active the topic will be, I'm starting the prize money at e$500 and will move up if the topic gets active. If you haven't figured it out, the money I pay out in prizes in the math challenge is essentially the money that I get "paid" for posting the puzzles so there's no net out of pocket expense for me.
So what is this challenge? Simple. I got my boys a USB microscope for Christmas last year, and it has three different magnification settings. I am going to take an item that is small enough to fit in the microscope and take a picture at 200X magnification and post it. You guess what it is. The first correct guess wins e$500, with the potential to be more if the topic is active.
If nobody gets the item right away, ask for a hint. I might give one.
After a few days at 200X magnification I will post an image at 60X magnification. After a while at that level, I will post something at 10X magnification. Hopefully someone will get the right guess at that point. If nobody does, I will post an image that will essentially give away the answer, and the first person to post will win the prize.
I hope this will be fun.
So, without further ado, here's your first "What Am I?" challenge picture:
200x Magnification
This picture shows a product made by one of the companies in the S&P 500 index. That's your first - if not very useful - hint. |
I think I know. You had a callous on yer big toe....so ya lopped it off wit a single edged razer and stuck it under da microscope?  |
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| Grimreaper |
| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:57 am Post subject: |
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Here's one from da Reaper along the same lines as Dave's game. I will pay $25000 e$ to the first person to tell me the correct name to give a dog wit no legs (ex. girl wit 1 leg is  Peg).  |
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| frusnak |
| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Im Not Warren Buffett |
| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Grimreaper wrote: | | Here's one from da Reaper along the same lines as Dave's game. I will pay $25000 e$ to the first person to tell me the correct name to give a dog wit no legs (ex. girl wit 1 leg is Peg). |
I thought it doesn't matter, because regardless of what you call him he won't come. |
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| Grimreaper |
| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Im Not Warren Buffett wrote: | | Grimreaper wrote: | | Here's one from da Reaper along the same lines as Dave's game. I will pay $25000 e$ to the first person to tell me the correct name to give a dog wit no legs (ex. girl wit 1 leg is Peg). |
I thought it doesn't matter, because regardless of what you call him he won't come. |
Ahhhh...very good grasshopper. You are ready to leave the temple on yer fine Arab chaaawja....along wit $25000 e$ from da Reaper. Would you mind if Jack rides along with you into the sunset? Here comes Jack on his stallion now. Help Jack off his horse and he will help you load this stash ov e$ onto yer pony.  Oh yeah...ifn ya ever return to da temple...bring beer! |
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| Grimreaper |
| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| OK...here's anudder since we's spekkin bout horsies. A zebra appears before God and axes God..."Lord, am I a white horse with black stripes or a black horse with white stripes?"....to which God replied..."You are what you are"....For $20000 e$...based on what God said, was the zebra a white horse with black stripes or vice verse....and why? |
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| Im Not Warren Buffett |
| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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I know the answer to this one too.
You need to get some new jokes. I'll PM you the answer in case I can't win twice. |
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| Dave Rathbun |
| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:57 am Post subject: |
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So far the only guess appears to be Grim, and unless a company in the S&P 500 has started making callouses, it's wrong.
I'll let it run for a few more days before posting the next picture. It's interesting to me... and the inspiration for this contest was... how alike so many different things appear to be under 200X magnification. |
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| Grimreaper |
| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| Dave Rathbun wrote: | So far the only guess appears to be Grim, and unless a company in the S&P 500 has started making callouses, it's wrong.
I'll let it run for a few more days before posting the next picture. It's interesting to me... and the inspiration for this contest was... how alike so many different things appear to be under 200X magnification. |
Lemme know ifn I'm going in da right direction. This looks like it is made from a mineral that is flaky and pearlescent.....ifn I am on da right track, tell me the mineral it mostly consists of....and methinks I kin guess witout going to a lower magnification. |
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| zerolikedis |
| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:32 am Post subject: |
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| Dave Rathbun |
| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:18 am Post subject: |
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This is an edible item, but it is not sugar.
It is not a mineral, as it is an organic item. Processed, but organic in nature. |
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| Im Not Warren Buffett |
| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| Dave Rathbun wrote: | This is an edible item, but it is not sugar.
It is not a mineral, as it is an organic item. Processed, but organic in nature. |
I have a little nephew now, and I've learned that anything is edible... 
I honestly have no idea what that could be. Can we get a lower magnification? |
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| Grimreaper |
| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:22 am Post subject: |
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| Dave Rathbun wrote: | This is an edible item, but it is not sugar.
It is not a mineral, as it is an organic item. Processed, but organic in nature. |
Aha! It's a popcorn kernel!  |
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| NCSUPAGE |
| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:40 am Post subject: |
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