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Journey To The Centre Of The Earth. Ball Puzzle

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• Sep 11, 2005

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action ( More info? ) OK not sure if anyone here has played this or tried it but I've since sorted out the bug problem in the game by reinstalling it and seems to have fixed my problem........ I'm stuck on a puzzle.. 12 balls numbered 1 - 12 You have to place them on a set of scales to find out one unique weighted ball. You can either do it by moving 8 onto the scales 4 each side or the whole lot and then use trial and error.... Damn frustrating and there's 50 more puzzles to go including the tower of hanoi. Thankfully one I can solve .  

• Sep 12, 2005

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action ( More info? ) "Kissing Lettuce" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > OK not sure if anyone here has played this or tried it but I've > since sorted out the bug problem in the game by reinstalling > it and seems to have fixed my problem........ > > I'm stuck on a puzzle.. > > 12 balls numbered 1 - 12 > > You have to place them on a set of scales to find out > one unique weighted ball. You can either do it by > moving 8 onto the scales 4 each side or the whole lot > and then use trial and error.... > > Damn frustrating and there's 50 more puzzles to go including > the tower of hanoi. Thankfully one I can solve . > > It would be easier if you knew the odd ball to be heavier or lighter, but not knowing will just add another step. Put 4 on each side. If they don't balance, you know the odd ball is among them. Take the 4 off the heavy side and put the 4 remaining on that side. If they still don't balance,you have a lighter odd ball on the light side. If the second set of 4 brings it into balance, then you know that your odd ball is heavier and is among the 4 you took off the scale. Now that you know which group of 4 holds your ball, split this group with 2 on each side of the scale. If your odd ball is light, split the light side again, with one on each side. If your odd ball is heavy, do it with the 2 on the heavy side. There, you've found your one unique weighted ball. If, at the beginning, the 4 on each side do balance then you know that the odd ball is among the 4 you haven't scaled yet. Putting that 4 on the scale against either group of balanced balls will tell you whether your odd ball is heavier or lighter, then proceed from there as above.  

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action ( More info? ) KCB wrote: > "Kissing Lettuce" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > > OK not sure if anyone here has played this or tried it but I've > > since sorted out the bug problem in the game by reinstalling > > it and seems to have fixed my problem........ > > > > I'm stuck on a puzzle.. > > > > 12 balls numbered 1 - 12 > > > > You have to place them on a set of scales to find out > > one unique weighted ball. You can either do it by > > moving 8 onto the scales 4 each side or the whole lot > > and then use trial and error.... > > > > Damn frustrating and there's 50 more puzzles to go including > > the tower of hanoi. Thankfully one I can solve . > > > > > > It would be easier if you knew the odd ball to be heavier or lighter, but > not knowing will just add another step. Put 4 on each side. If they don't > balance, you know the odd ball is among them. Take the 4 off the heavy side > and put the 4 remaining on that side. If they still don't balance,you have > a lighter odd ball on the light side. If the second set of 4 brings it into > balance, then you know that your odd ball is heavier and is among the 4 you > took off the scale. Now that you know which group of 4 holds your ball, > split this group with 2 on each side of the scale. If your odd ball is > light, split the light side again, with one on each side. If your odd ball > is heavy, do it with the 2 on the heavy side. There, you've found your one > unique weighted ball. If, at the beginning, the 4 on each side do balance > then you know that the odd ball is among the 4 you haven't scaled yet. > Putting that 4 on the scale against either group of balanced balls will tell > you whether your odd ball is heavier or lighter, then proceed from there as > above. Wouldn't you know it? Tried this game again after a good night and day away from the PC and it worked.... Though I tried a different tactic from what you suggest which by the way works perfectly. Thankyou What I did was put 6 balls in each scale and then one side was lighter then the other so I took out all the balls from the lighter side and then split the ones on the heavy side and did another weighing.... Did one more after that and in two weighings I got the right one. The correct ball goes into your inventory and is marked "white ball, Unique specimen very hard to find"  

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Journey to the Center of the Earth

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• Full Title: Journey to the Center of the Earth
• When Written: Early 1860s
• Where Written: France
• When Published: 1864
• Literary Period: Romanticism, Realism
• Genre: Science Fiction
• Setting: 1863 in Germany, Iceland, and a series of subterranean tunnels
• Climax: Axel, Lidenbrock, and Hans create an abyss with a violent explosion that sends their raft into a waterspout.
• Antagonist: The dangers of nature
• Point of View: First Person

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Lost in Translation. The first English translation of Journey to the Center of the Earth , published in 1871, was in fact not a translation but a complete rewriting of the novel. Character names were changed, chapters were given titles, and entire portions of the story were added or removed.

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Adaptation of the Jules Verne sci-fi classic about a Scottish professor who receives a rock inscribed with an explorer's description of a subterranean passage and follows the directions into a prehistoric lost world.

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As we explained in this month’s feature article , archaeology—which is focused on human history—is different from paleontology—which is focused on other species. But these two fields are often thought of together: when many people imagine ancient human history, they often imagine ancient creatures, even if those animals didn’t live at the same time as humans. They imagine woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. And dinosaurs.

The connection between archaeology and dangerous creatures is an element from classic literature. Consider two adventure novels that depict intrepid scientists and explorers who end up in undiscovered places where they find terrifying beasts and unique human—or humanish—communities.

Perhaps the most famous example comes from Jules Verne, who also wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea , the work we discussed in our marine science issue . In 1864, the influential French author wrote  Journey to the Center of the Earth , an adventure novel about a professor and his nephew who discover an underground world inhabited by human-like beings. About fifty years later, in 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the famed creator of Sherlock Holmes) wrote  The Lost World , another adventure novel, about a scientist, an adventurer, and a reporter who travel to a land where dinosaurs still live, and where an indigenous people are in the midst of a war against “ape-like creatures.” (It’s available for free at Project Gutenberg .)

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• Verne’s work has been turned into a number of movies, and Doyle’s was a precursor to popular films like  Jurassic Park —which even borrowed Doyle’s title for the second film in the series. Why do you think these stories have captured readers’ imaginations for so long? How do you think that has changed how people think of ancient human history?
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