Parts Is Parts
The local hands-on museum has a copy of a puzzle called The Vanishing Leprechaun. Put together one way, you see 14 leprechauns; put together another way, you see 15. The thing had me freaked out for a while. If you want to be freaked too, see it here. I finally decided that the solution to the mystery must be that one way, each leprechaun equaled fifteen fifteenths of a leprechaun, but the other way, each equaled fourteen fifteenths. Or something like that. I may have the math wrong, but I'm too lazy to work it out, although I suspect the denominator of the fraction needs to be the least common multiple of 14 and 15. The bottom line is, leprechauns are a continuous, not discrete, function. I've seen a explanation online (which I can't find anymore) which confirms my intuition, assuming I understood it correctly. If you have it figured out, you may be ready to tackle a more difficult puzzle: the mystery of The Oklahoma City Bombing Extra Leg.
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
1 Comments:
Figured out yer mystery. It's the kneeling Leprechaun. He and the fella just below him are not noticably bisected by the line. And one of them gets dismembered, in the lower panel the next to last one is deprived of both torso and arms.
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