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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: fken on August 22, 2005, 04:10:56 pm

Title: the WAZZA thread
Post by: fken on August 22, 2005, 04:10:56 pm: So I propose to create a game for the forum active (and non active) users.

The rules are the following:

You know a strange object. Broadcast its picture here. During a predefined period (precize it but dont chose more than 2weeks) people will have to search what it could be... if no one find, you can tell the answer once the period is finished.

Once the middle of the period you have predefined passed, you can help people by saying for example where its used or precise the domain where to search.

NB: I saw that on a french forum for the first time... there were guys extremly incredibly amazingly powerful in that game! It was so amazing!

Who wana start?
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on August 22, 2005, 07:28:22 pm: So somone posts a pic and others have 2 weeks to guess what it is?
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Post by: fken on August 23, 2005, 03:33:43 am: yeah Efflixi.

Try to propose something first. I thought about you when i created this thread.
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Post by: XpYtZ on August 23, 2005, 07:08:19 am: I\'ll bite. Let\'s start with an easy one.

\\/ What is this?

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v146/XpYtZ/79ddc0fd.jpg)
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on August 23, 2005, 08:24:33 am: Quote
Originally posted by fken
yeah Efflixi.

Try to propose something first. I thought about you when i created this thread.

...O.o

Hmm lets see...
A... Umm...

Well lets see. It moves that black thing looks like a handle that you turn.

Is it those penny squisher things? (ya im way off i know)
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Post by: Black_rose on August 23, 2005, 01:38:14 pm: table or a sewing machine.....
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Post by: fken on August 24, 2005, 05:30:01 am: has it something to deals with thread ?
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Post by: XpYtZ on August 24, 2005, 10:43:44 am: Well I\'m glad you are all trying at least. I\'m not sure I can wait two weeks to tell you. :)
I am allowed to give hints at the one week mark correct?
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Post by: Drey on August 24, 2005, 12:20:14 pm: its some kind of wooden construction that has wheels, seems to have a clock on it too?

is it a wooden clock on wheels?
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Post by: Jakob on August 24, 2005, 02:33:49 pm: Looks like... a table for some kind of game... Wow... never seen anything like it...
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Post by: Ashamn on August 24, 2005, 03:31:21 pm: [EDIT: for some stupid reason that smiley appeared up there.. I\'m still asking how that happened.. odd..]

Strange Piece of Wood.
Or
Legandary Piece Of Wood Of Oddness.
Or even
Epic Strange Piece Of Wood Of Something.
It can also be a
Stupid Piece Of Wood Wich Nobody Knows What It Is

Bah, have no idea.. :P
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Post by: Jekkar on August 24, 2005, 03:53:07 pm: Looks like a medieval poop scooper to me ...
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Post by: fken on August 24, 2005, 04:18:07 pm: XpYtZ : you can give some information before these two weeks (whats important is that you wait after some player to try before helping)
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Post by: XpYtZ on August 24, 2005, 10:13:45 pm: Ah, I see. well since some people are playing and I am sure it\'s driving them crazy.

Think Archimedes :))
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Post by: Pip on August 24, 2005, 10:29:31 pm: I\'m stumped!

Is it some kind of mechanical calculator?

Could you post a couple of pics from different angles?

Great thread, has given me a few laughs already :D
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Post by: hitancrias on August 24, 2005, 11:32:59 pm: Is it a mechanical Odometer, by chance?
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on August 25, 2005, 03:58:47 am: I think we need to pay more attention to the gear on top and that slot thing on the top right.

I have a feeling its a table for some game that also holds the peices.
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Post by: fken on August 25, 2005, 04:08:31 am: a hydraulic elevator ?
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Post by: XpYtZ on August 25, 2005, 11:07:56 am: hitancrias has won.
The Odomiter was created by Archimedes for the Roman Legion so they could properly carry out the Emperors order that \"all Roman roads be marked each mile with a stone of location and distance from Rome.\"
Here is a cookie.
The primal gear is attached to a weel and drives the larger gear clearly seen from the front with a \'single pin\' gear system. The long hand that Efflixi noticed (and some thought was related to a clock) uses the \'single pin\' method to drive the top gear. The final gear (on top) has a series of marbles set in it. When a marble falls you have traveled one mile. The total mileage can be calculated by \'counting your marbles\'.

:))

I bow out and turn it over to the next Clue Master

PS I would like to know if hitancrias was watching the same TV show I was.
History Channel much?
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Post by: fken on August 25, 2005, 12:01:12 pm: Nice one!

My turn!
(http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/4272/schmilblick5ub.jpg)

I hope ill be able to explain you what\'s its goal...
I recognize this one isnt easy so I can answer to your question since the beginning
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Post by: hitancrias on August 25, 2005, 12:29:59 pm: Yay! *munches the cookie*

No XpYtZ, I never watched that TV-channel, it\'s not on the cable where I live. I simply searched Wikipedia for Archimedes. I only knew the \'Eureka\'-story about him, so I was pleased to read he did much more. There I also found that he possibly invented the odometer. The description seemed to match the picture you gave. And a google immage search on odometer and archimedes brought up similar pictures. :)

*looks at fkens object*

Well it looks like a scientifical test setting of some kind. As you stated we could ask questions: Has it something to do with \'light\'?
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Post by: Drey on August 25, 2005, 12:39:34 pm: is it some kind of laser-ey thingy?
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Post by: fken on August 25, 2005, 01:24:06 pm: not a laser but it has something to deals with light youre right hitancrias
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Post by: Pip on August 25, 2005, 01:54:39 pm: Should we be able to read the Dymo label on that thing in the front?

If so, could you tell us what it says please?

Does it have a medical connection?
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Post by: Jakob on August 25, 2005, 06:42:02 pm: It looks like it has different prisms and redirections of the sort... Does it have anything to do with optics(ie in physics) or waves?
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Post by: Wired_Crawler on August 25, 2005, 06:43:21 pm: Is that device for measuring absorption of infra-red radiation in carbon dioxide atmosphere ? Or something like that ?
Non-portable alcometer ;) ?
Generally - a kind of spectrometer ?
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on August 25, 2005, 09:37:42 pm: By any chance is that the machine they teleported a single photon of light with? ?(
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Post by: fken on August 25, 2005, 11:24:42 pm: lol

hmmm guys you are far.

Yeah it\'s an optical machine (and yeah it has something to deals with light waves) ... Moreover I\'ll give you a little help :

This machine is the experience of a famous experience which... never success because (the inventor was american... hmmm I am kidding ! I am kidding !) what its inventor searched was totally wrong.

But this machine was very important because it revolutionned the humanity physic...

I think I help you too much... maybe I have destruct the fun ...
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Post by: hitancrias on August 25, 2005, 11:45:56 pm: Is it an (of course fruitless) attempt to a perpetuum mobile? Or a device that should give so called \'free energy\'?
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Post by: Wired_Crawler on August 26, 2005, 10:25:07 am: Michelson-Morley device ?
Does the text below describes it ? (found it here: http://encarta.msn.com/text_761579230__1/Light.html)
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In 1887 American physicists Albert A. Michelson and Edward Morley performed a very sensitive experiment designed to detect the effects of ether. They constructed an interferometer with two light beams: one that pointed along the direction of Earth\'s motion, and one that pointed in a direction perpendicular to Earth\'s motion. The beams were reflected by mirrors at the ends of their paths and returned to a common point where they could interfere. Along the first beam, the scientists expected Earth\'s motion to increase or decrease the beam\'s velocity so that the number of wave cycles throughout the path would be changed slightly relative to the second beam, resulting in a characteristic interference pattern. Knowing the velocity of Earth, it was possible to predict the change in the number of cycles and the resulting interference pattern that would be observed. The Michelson-Morley apparatus was fully capable of measuring it, but the scientists did not find the expected results.
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson-Morley_experiment
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Post by: Nilrem on August 26, 2005, 12:09:30 pm: Erm, normally I don\'t reply in those threads but, please...

Those that post the images should try to _rename_ them *cough* in order to keep the guessing fair...
Or this time the name isn\'t giving any information?
Still I think that they should be renamed to wazzaxx.jpeg or similar.

That said, enjoy the game.
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Post by: fken on August 26, 2005, 08:31:21 pm: AND THE WINNER IS : Wired_Crawler

Congratulation

Nilrem: Dont worry Schmilblick was a special name. In France there was that kind of game called the \"Schmilblick\". So dont worry.

That machine shows scientsts that the 19th century physic was wrong and that the Maxwell theories were right.
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on August 26, 2005, 10:18:47 pm: OMG! Wus Dat!(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v360/killerv/whose_got_da_moves.gif)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v360/killerv/hahahanicetryefflixistoogoodforyou.jpg)
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Post by: Robinmagus on August 26, 2005, 11:25:24 pm: a primative sowing machine, or a shotgun.
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Post by: Drey on August 26, 2005, 11:42:26 pm: is it one of those things for soing stuff to metal

ill giovre you the name later.
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on August 27, 2005, 12:52:27 am: Its not for sewing anything good try though.
But it is a machine that we dont use anymore.
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Post by: Ashamn on August 27, 2005, 01:39:24 am: It\'s a piece of metal.
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Post by: dragonfire999 on August 27, 2005, 02:34:38 am: your all stupid
Telegram...?
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on August 27, 2005, 02:47:03 am: Quote
Originally posted by dragonfire999
your all stupid
Telegram...?

No *points and laughs at dragonfire*
looks like you are too. :)
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Post by: Ashamn on August 27, 2005, 05:01:08 am: Not as stupid as that piece of metal.. can u at least tell what it does, or who invented it?..

:P
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on August 27, 2005, 06:10:54 am: If I told you either of those you would get it in like a split second...
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Post by: Wired_Crawler on August 27, 2005, 08:04:16 am: Quote
Originally posted by fken
AND THE WINNER IS : Wired_Crawler
I Won! I Won! :D
I like to win, and i could win again :P, but easy victory brings no satisfaction. So, I\'ll give You a chance, You have got 6 days to guess ;)
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Post by: Drey on August 27, 2005, 08:16:58 am: lave is the word i was looking for, or lathe?
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on August 27, 2005, 08:17:56 am: No drey, it doesnt sew stuff...
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Post by: Jakob on August 28, 2005, 12:31:47 am: Is it a noodle press? (Not sure about the name exactly... but...)
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Post by: Sikarda on August 28, 2005, 03:18:56 am: Is it for putting detailing/engraving on sheet metal? :)
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on August 30, 2005, 09:16:33 pm: Its a phonograph. :)
Its an older made by edison when they didnt use records yet. I think it makes scratches on a metal peice that make sounds...
Basicly the first recording device made.
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Post by: Robinmagus on August 30, 2005, 10:40:42 pm: \\o/

(http://tecfa.unige.ch/~nova/img/machine-cool.jpg)
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Post by: dragonfire999 on August 30, 2005, 10:53:23 pm: absurdly large drilling machine
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Post by: Robinmagus on August 30, 2005, 11:10:48 pm: /me throws tomatoes on Taser.

I\'d tell you if I knew :D:P
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Post by: hitancrias on September 08, 2005, 11:05:36 am: Okay, let\'s revive it then.

Robinmagnus, I think your picture shows a tunnel digging machine.
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Post by: dragonfire999 on September 09, 2005, 02:22:38 am: This is easy. Give me year, model, maker and pickup style ^^;
And guitarist out there should know this one!

(http://www.halkans.com/images/361fender.jpg)
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on September 09, 2005, 03:47:31 am: 63ish-65ish fender jaguar

oh and fender is teh suxorz
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Post by: dragonfire999 on September 09, 2005, 03:50:04 am: no, ur teh suxorz!
Not a jaguar ;)
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on September 09, 2005, 03:54:18 am: 63ish-65ish fender mustang

oh and fender is still teh suxorz
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Post by: dragonfire999 on September 09, 2005, 03:55:53 am: Still wrong.. mustangs were only in the 70\'s, and this is a 60\'s guitar

Edit: This guitar is very similar to the mustang, but the mustang resembles a telecaster more than this one!
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on September 09, 2005, 05:02:59 am: jazzmaster? (i didnt even know about this one had to find it)
damn they all look the same...
stupid fender...
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Post by: Cooldewd on September 09, 2005, 05:05:22 am: WAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZUP!?!!??!?!
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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on September 09, 2005, 05:22:50 am: shutup stupid
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Post by: dragonfire999 on September 09, 2005, 08:39:35 pm: cooldewd is a stupid troll :P
And yep, 1963 fender jazzmaster. It may be ugly, but those sound really nice.