superprismatic Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 There are eight wheels, each bearing the same scrambled alphabet around the rim. These are mounted on a shaft and turned until the word LOVESICK appears. Three positions farther on appears PAYCBLSO. The wheels are then reset to the word DAUGHTER. Four positions farther on appears VZCDSBIY. If the wheels are now reset to IGYWVHPO, what word will appear five positions farther on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 (edited) Let's just say the LOVESICK DAUGHTER ran away with her's and never got her's Edited September 13, 2009 by Doctor Moshe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 BACHELOR Did you make this puzzle up? Now who's gonna to clean up all these cardboard wheels?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 superprismatic Posted September 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 BACHELOR Did you make this puzzle up? Now who's gonna to clean up all these cardboard wheels?! I didn't make this puzzle up. It was originally posed by Walter Penney sometime in the 1960s. I have some unpublished papers with lots of his puzzles. I have posted some of my own here, but if I use those made by someone else, I try to give proper attribution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 I didn't make this puzzle up. It was originally posed by Walter Penney sometime in the 1960s. I have some unpublished papers with lots of his puzzles. I have posted some of my own here, but if I use those made by someone else, I try to give proper attribution. Great puzzles. Nice that you have the papers -- a relative perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 superprismatic Posted September 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Great puzzles. Nice that you have the papers -- a relative perhaps? No, not a relative. But I met him a few times. He was kind of like Mr. Burns on The Simpsons. I still have more of his puzzles to put up -- one every day or two for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 No, not a relative. But I met him a few times. He was kind of like Mr. Burns on The Simpsons. I still have more of his puzzles to put up -- one every day or two for a while. I know this is an older one Super, but I've been going back to look at some you've posted. This one for some reason is baffling me. I've got some sort of a blockage in my brain. Maybe's I've been doing too many in a row. What's the technique here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 superprismatic Posted September 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2009 I know this is an older one Super, but I've been going back to look at some you've posted. This one for some reason is baffling me. I've got some sort of a blockage in my brain. Maybe's I've been doing too many in a row. What's the technique here? Well, the wheels are identical. They are just rotated relative to each other to show some word facing the same direction. You are told what can be seen on the wheels at some number of positions later. So, you can get several incomplete sequences, by position, around the scrambled sequence. They must be meshed together to get the partial sequence used for all wheels. If these wheels are set to show you IGYWVHPO, there will be a (possibly partial) word five positions ahead in the group of wheels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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There are eight wheels, each bearing
the same scrambled alphabet around
the rim. These are mounted on a shaft
and turned until the word LOVESICK
appears. Three positions farther on
appears PAYCBLSO. The wheels are
then reset to the word DAUGHTER.
Four positions farther on appears
VZCDSBIY. If the wheels are now
reset to IGYWVHPO, what word will
appear five positions farther on?
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