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Subject: Community Center Forum Carnival Booth
One guess period, but I suppose the loop-hole to that is to put all three tiers in one post. So, maybe I should say, one post per day. I'm just trying to keep from flood spamming the forum with ten thousand guesses. But, it's not like I'm being super strict like in the contest modules. As long as everyone is having fun, all is good.
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@aplusdesign Originally, my idea was to guess separately, but everyone is combining the numbers, so, okay, that's fine, I adjusted the rules on the fly to just let them combine the numbers. I don't want to be so strict it saps the fun away. You should thank Redphantom for getting me to throw away the first draft of the rules I made. I have to admit, they were insane.
Oh, and visit the other forums. There are lots of other challenges to do also. Something for everyone.
Wolfenshire, Moderator/Community Leader
Will do for sure! And thanks for the clarification :D@aplusdesign Originally, my idea was to guess separately, but everyone is combining the numbers, so, okay, that's fine, I adjusted the rules on the fly to just let them combine the numbers. I don't want to be so strict it saps the fun away. You should thank Redphantom for getting me to throw away the first draft of the rules I made. I have to admit, they were insane.
Oh, and visit the other forums. There are lots of other challenges to do also. Something for everyone.
I think the jar of marbles (first tier) contains 135 marbles
Do I get extra kudos for including my working out ? If so, here goes:
Assume the marbles are (a) all of an equal size, and (b) they adopt an HCP (Hexagonal Close Packed) crystal lattice structure within the jar.
At its widest the jar seems, from visual inspection, to be able to hold a horizontal layer containing a maximum of four marbles in a straight line giving. So assuming a planar hexagonal array with a 2-3-4-3-2 configuration*, this would give 14 marbles per layer.
From visual inspection it would appear that the jar can contain five of these layers plus smaller intermediate layers between each pair of layers, and since the jar is tapered at the top and bottom there will be smaller layers above the uppermost layer and below the lowermost layer - thus six intermediate layers.
The intermediate layers would adopt a 2-3-4-3** configuration for 12 marbles per layer.
This gives a total of 5×14+6×12=142 marbles (or the smaller alternative* of 125 marbles)
Another visual inspection indicates that the marbles do not appear to have been placed in an HCP lattice, so we can ignore all this and just make a random guess
*Alternatively a 1-4-3-4-1 configuration for the main layers would only give only 13 marbles per layer, and would allow a 2-3-2-3 configuration for intermediate layers of 10 marbles each, which gives a total of 5×13+6×10=125 marbles
**The intermediate layers can extend beyond the main layers as long they do not extend beyond the constraining inner wall of the glass jar.
The 3Dcheapskate* occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.
*also available in ShareCG, DAZ, and HiveWire3D flavours (the DeviantArt and CGBytes flavour have been discontinued).
Tier 1: 145
Tier 2: 250
Tier 3: 354
@3dcheapskate OMG you've got an entire system. I'm not that fancy I just counted what I saw and then elaborated a bit! :D
APlusDesign posted at 8:56 AM Mon, 3 June 2024 - #4485614
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@3dcheapskate OMG you've got an entire system. I'm not that fancy I just counted what I saw and then elaborated a bit! :D
Edit: darn it, only one post a day and I didn't include today's guess... :oD
The 3Dcheapskate* occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.
*also available in ShareCG, DAZ, and HiveWire3D flavours (the DeviantArt and CGBytes flavour have been discontinued).
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Theme: Count the Marbles
Welcome to Marble Mayhem. This is a multi-tier game that can be played in part, or in whole.
First person to guess Tier 1, wins small prize
First person to guess Tier 1 and Tier 2, wins medium prize
First person to guess Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 wins big prize
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Submissions Closed: July 1, 2024, 5:00 PM CDT
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Wolfenshire, Moderator/Community Leader