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- From: Russell L. Bryan <rbryan@Mail.trincoll.edu>
- Subject: Re: Bubblyhotrock (was Sense of Wonder)
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:37:12 GMT
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- In article <41085@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Darin Johnson, djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu
- writes:
- >Yikes! Wouldn't have thought of the cutting the rope part unless
- >there was some sort of (you are x feet across). And you won't swing
- >into the cave gently, probably shoot a few rooms further in. More
- >description on carriage. I would have thought it was hanging from the
- >rope (like a funicular), making it very difficult for it to tip over
- >by climbing on top.
-
- Nope -- inside the carriage is a ton of useless trinkets and junk, all of
- which is hanging from the ceiling. This provides for a VERY high center
- of gravity which is only balanced when someone is actually inside the
- carriage. The principle is similar to a squirrel-proof birdfeeder I once
- saw.
-
- >Personally, I would have thought that the carriage was mechanical and
- >that pulling the lever might do something. Maybe find another rope
- >somewhere, crawl across, tie rope to carriage, crawl back, then pull
- >carriage across. Then perhaps if there are no controls inside
- >carriage, can cross over to opening normally without carriage in the
- >way.
-
- Actually, the carriage WAS mechanical once, but as I said, a lot of
- things are not operating (at least, not when you find them). The
- carriage itself contains a pulley system, and can be drawn across from
- within by pulling on the rope.
-
- However, I may have to seriously rethink the puzzle for another reason.
- I have to give the carriage a door. It struck me that a carriage is
- pretty useless if it only had one entrance on one side. Well, back to
- the drawing board.
-
- -- Russ
-