If I type in "symm" into the box on the second giveaway, do you know how many different things I entered? 19.
Also, one was "No rotational symmetry".
At least now I can accept that I had indeed gotten the answer and that it was the symmetry.
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You didn't actually say that it lacks anything. You said what's special about it that makes it different. Which is that it has no rotational symmetry. You can't rotate it 90, 180 or 270 degrees and have it look the same.
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Puzzle 1
Puzzle 2
Giveaway
The first puzzle was directly linked from the thread, and if you were wondering - yes, the descriptions in the puzzles were completely pointless. The image linked was a picture from the credits of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, where two people are...up to mischief. This was to simply imply that the question is related to Harry Potter. If you Googled "Exlliferous", it'd probably say "Showing results for melliferous". Clicking "Search instead for exlliferous" would bring you directly to the answer - Anogorflikerous. Also, third link down (for me) also gives you a link to my three-part puzzle a few months back, where I used Exlliferous Anogorflikerous as a clue.
This would give you to the clicky to the second quiz, and also gives you the format for the answer in puzzle two, "It lacks __ _____." - implying two words. There was some confusion as to whether the format of the answer was the entire sentence including the period, so I later updated the thread to specify "TWO WORDS."
Now, the second puzzle: "What's so special about the 7 of diamonds that makes it different from the rest of the diamonds?"
Obviously, I didn't mean something simple like "It's a 7". Given the format, many of you guessed something along the lines of "symmetry" or "symmetrical" or "antisymmetrical" That's partially correct, but the clue given after five days specified "Think in math terms." What I actually meant, was "think in geometric terms" - but I didn't want to make it a dead giveaway, so I made it a bit vague. Now, the answer itself was rather simple: rotational symmetry. Some of you thought line symmetry, but alas, the royal cards are not symmetric through the y-axis. Now that you have the answer, look back again - you'll see that all the cards have rotational/point symmetry, but the seven. This applies to the entire deck of cards, actually.
I'm aware that rotational symmetry and point symmetry are the same thing - this was an error on my part for not putting both answers; for those of you who asked me about it, and gave the answer "point symmetry" in my chat, then I just gave you the answer. Apologies for those of you who didn't* contact me about that; but I expected you to try both versions. :P
Anyway, that's it. Congrats to EFHRK, the winner, and thank you for participating! '
Until the next time - Memoir.
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