Questor
2018-05-30 06:11:07 UTC
I needed some space on the DVR recently, so I binge-watched the last season
and deleted all but the final episode. Now I'm reviewing the final airplane
assembly puzzle in an attempt to deconstruct & reconstruct it.
The big problem I face is that I simply cannot identify five of the twenty-two
images:
- an irregular green blob
- a darker green squarish item
- what appears to be a twisted ladder
- a circle with a couple of appendages
- paired with the above circle, something I cannot see well enough to describe
I also know that:
- one of these objects represents Hong Kong
- one of these objects represents San Francisco
- one, and possibly two of these objects represents Saint-Tropez
- the remaining one or two items will represent Morocco and/or Les Baux
Help from anyone who still has this episode on their DVR (especially if it's in
high-definition) would be appreciated.
I have all the other objects identified, along with the leg they represent.
I know all the image pairs, and on which part on each plane they are placed.
(It's different for each plane.) And I have the correct solution.
Some other facts that have popped out so far...
Each of the three teams has essentially the same puzzle, but the elements are
mixed up. For example, one of the red propellers has images of a helmet and
fishes on it. On the blue plane, this pair of images is on one of the wings.
There are six correct pairs and six incorrect pairs of images, so each pair of
parts (propellers, rudders, wings, and stabilizers) has one from the set of
correct pairs and one from the set of incorrect pairs.
The correct answer is essentially given at one point -- Henry had it. But he
wasn't certain, and swapped a part before requesting a check. Perhaps in his
defense, and to my surprise, some of the images were from roadblocks. In
particular, the magnifying glass used by the bureaucrat to examine the answer
form from the Kafka roadblock in Prague is one of the images. Evan did that one
for team Yale -- Henry didn't go into that room and presumably never saw the
magnifying glass.
And speaking of mistakes, Jess had a stabilizer in the rudder slot for a couple
of her early checks. This raises the question of how interchangeable those
pieces were. In a blog post, Jen Hudak (one of the skiers) says that the right
and left wings were distinguishable because the leading edge is thicker, but
it was not apparent which were the right and left stabilizers. (The rudders are
easily distinguished from the stabilizers, because they are colored
differently.)
and deleted all but the final episode. Now I'm reviewing the final airplane
assembly puzzle in an attempt to deconstruct & reconstruct it.
The big problem I face is that I simply cannot identify five of the twenty-two
images:
- an irregular green blob
- a darker green squarish item
- what appears to be a twisted ladder
- a circle with a couple of appendages
- paired with the above circle, something I cannot see well enough to describe
I also know that:
- one of these objects represents Hong Kong
- one of these objects represents San Francisco
- one, and possibly two of these objects represents Saint-Tropez
- the remaining one or two items will represent Morocco and/or Les Baux
Help from anyone who still has this episode on their DVR (especially if it's in
high-definition) would be appreciated.
I have all the other objects identified, along with the leg they represent.
I know all the image pairs, and on which part on each plane they are placed.
(It's different for each plane.) And I have the correct solution.
Some other facts that have popped out so far...
Each of the three teams has essentially the same puzzle, but the elements are
mixed up. For example, one of the red propellers has images of a helmet and
fishes on it. On the blue plane, this pair of images is on one of the wings.
There are six correct pairs and six incorrect pairs of images, so each pair of
parts (propellers, rudders, wings, and stabilizers) has one from the set of
correct pairs and one from the set of incorrect pairs.
The correct answer is essentially given at one point -- Henry had it. But he
wasn't certain, and swapped a part before requesting a check. Perhaps in his
defense, and to my surprise, some of the images were from roadblocks. In
particular, the magnifying glass used by the bureaucrat to examine the answer
form from the Kafka roadblock in Prague is one of the images. Evan did that one
for team Yale -- Henry didn't go into that room and presumably never saw the
magnifying glass.
And speaking of mistakes, Jess had a stabilizer in the rudder slot for a couple
of her early checks. This raises the question of how interchangeable those
pieces were. In a blog post, Jen Hudak (one of the skiers) says that the right
and left wings were distinguishable because the leading edge is thicker, but
it was not apparent which were the right and left stabilizers. (The rudders are
easily distinguished from the stabilizers, because they are colored
differently.)