"Complexity Scale"

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"Complexity Scale"

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Hi friends!!

Just wanted to apologize for the delay this morning! This week's puzzle is titled "Complexity Scale". Good luck!

Your friendly conductor constructor,
Will
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With a hint from Will, I got to the answer. 🦕🚂
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Solved, with a little education. 🦕
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I was nudged -- and researched -- right out of the box.
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Solved with a little education as well. Will’s powers of observation are brilliant!
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I am pretty sure I see the pattern, but can't find an appropriate car company to complete it.
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Found a bunch of unrelated stuff but had to cave and ask for a nudge as well. Mrs. C=64 is returning from a weeklong trip and I need to get back to cleaning the house.
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Dino me!

Intriguing puzzle -- though I needed a couple of firm nudges from another solver.
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DNF. I got two hints from Will but it's just not happening.
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I’ve submitted. Not confirmed yet, but if I’m wrong it’s the most amazing coincidence I’ve ever seen.

Edit: confirmed by Hector. I’m out of the box.
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DINO ME but maybe I should say DINO US since I needed so much help. I found a second answer that I like during the process.
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I'm sorry to say that gave up on this one. I know (probably, 99%) what the mechanism is, but I never found an answer that I was satisfied with. Still, the first part was pretty nice!
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Laura M wrote: Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:11 pm I'm sorry to say that gave up on this one. I know (probably, 99%) what the mechanism is, but I never found an answer that I was satisfied with. Still, the first part was pretty nice!
If you know what you're looking for, google will give it to you.
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BarbaraK wrote: Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:46 pm
Laura M wrote: Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:11 pm I'm sorry to say that gave up on this one. I know (probably, 99%) what the mechanism is, but I never found an answer that I was satisfied with. Still, the first part was pretty nice!
If you know what you're looking for, google will give it to you.
Hmm. In that case, I guess I don't know what I'm looking for after all; I did find a couple of possibilities but nothing that felt right.

(But also, quite often I'm just not able to effectively communicate to Google what I mean!)
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BarbaraK wrote: Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:46 pm
Laura M wrote: Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:11 pm I'm sorry to say that gave up on this one. I know (probably, 99%) what the mechanism is, but I never found an answer that I was satisfied with. Still, the first part was pretty nice!
If you know what you're looking for, google will give it to you.
I was in Laura's position and sent what I was confident about to Will. Suffice it to say I was very glad that I did not stick with it.
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Laura M wrote: Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:01 pm
BarbaraK wrote: Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:46 pm
Laura M wrote: Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:11 pm I'm sorry to say that gave up on this one. I know (probably, 99%) what the mechanism is, but I never found an answer that I was satisfied with. Still, the first part was pretty nice!
If you know what you're looking for, google will give it to you.
Hmm. In that case, I guess I don't know what I'm looking for after all; I did find a couple of possibilities but nothing that felt right.

(But also, quite often I'm just not able to effectively communicate to Google what I mean!)
PM me if you want to discuss it.
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Google often does not offer the same hits to all people googling for the same thing.
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boharr wrote: Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:14 pm Google often does not offer the same hits to all people googling for the same thing.
Good point. I'd think that if you're very specific about what you're searching for, google would give you this one. But I should know better than to ever try to predict what google will do.
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Would never have gotten this one in a million years. Did not even know where to begin in the google search. Even if I had thought to look at the logos, I have never skied, so didn't know those symbols were connected in any way.
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SewYoung wrote: Sun Nov 01, 2020 9:10 am Would never have gotten this one in a million years. Did not even know where to begin in the google search. Even if I had thought to look at the logos, I have never skied, so didn't know those symbols were connected in any way.
I only got this one because Will gave me a hint that mentioned skiing. I even had the logo shapes and colors, but had no idea where to go with it. In the 2 attempts at skiing that I’ve made in my life, trail difficulty was not an issue. I think the focus was on learning how to stop before hitting a tree. Anyway, Will mentioned in his email that he should have mentioned skiing in the puzzle somewhere.
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