BOUNCY
BOUNCY
by Brian Tivol
puzzle title authors Chris and Ray
Solvers
who cannot get the applet to load are advised to configure
their web
browser-- they might not be able to load Java applets over
HTTPS, and they
should be able to change their settings.
If that
fails, try a different browser or platform. (Which browsers on Athena
are known to
work?) If that fails, tell the solvers
to replace
"body.html" in the puzzle URL with "4.xml",
"5.xml", etc, in order to
view the data files.
Solvers
who are stuck on this puzzle should be told to look carefully
at 12, then
7, then 13.
Solvers who ask "When I put the mouse over this
letter, it doesn't
turn red like the others. Instead, it turns yellow, and a big red
triangle appears in
the side. What does that mean?"
should be told
"That means there's an arrow from that letter to
itself."
And now, the solution:
In each network, you
can spell words by starting at one
letter. choosing arrows wisely, and
moving from one letter to the
next.
Each network has precisely enough letters and arrows to spell
one
complete set of words (and the number of items in that set is used
to
label the network), with no extra letters and no extra arrows,
except that
one of the arrows is missing.
The missing arrows are N->F,
E->H, E->E, D->I, N->C, S->G, D->D, O->B,
and
C->A. The ends of the arrows are the
first nine letters of the
alphabet.
If you read the heads of the arrows in this order, you get
the
answer: CONDENSED.
Here are the nine sets:
4: The
"Big Four" robber barons
Crocker
Hopkins
Huntington
Sta[nf]ord
5: Hosts of "The View"
B[eh]ar
Hasselbeck
Jones
Vieira
Walters
6: "Star Wars"
subtitles
The Phantom Menace
Attack of the Clones
Revenge of the Sith
A New Hope
Th[e E]mpire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
7: Colors of the rainbow
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
In[di]go
Violet
8: The Ivy League
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Harvard
Pennsylvania
Pri[nc]eton
Yale
9: Norse Cosmology
A[sg]ard
Alfheim
Hel
Jotunheim
Midgard
Muspelheim
Niflheim
Svartalfheim
Vanaheim
11: Commuter Rail Terminals
Attleboro/Stoughton
Fairmount
Fitchburg
Framingham/Worcester
Franklin
Haverhill/Reading
Lowell
Mi[dd]leborough/Lakeville
Needham
Newburyport/Rockport
Plymouth/Kingston
12: Months
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
Oct[ob]er
November
December
13: The Thirteen Colonies
Delaware
Pennsylvania
New
Jersey
Georgia
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Maryland
South
[Ca]rolina
New Hampshire
Virginia
New York
North
[Ca]rolina
Rhode Island