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Puzzle #31 *You need the answer from Puzzle 25!*

The race is on! Somehow this gives me the number I need, but how? What you actually need to figure out is in the first hint below:

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Hint #1
Hint #1 - You've two robots you need to focus on, these robots are running round the track. The number represents the point when these two robots cross the same line.

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Hint #2
Hint #2 - Ok, more direct hint now! You need the answer to Puzzle 25. What robots are on it? Those are the two you need to look at.

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Hint #3
Hint #3 - The robots are the bat and the one with the antenna. We know from a previous PAT message that these little dudes run at a constant speed. Looking at the timer, 2 seconds have passed. How far has each robot gone?

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Hint #4
Hint #4 - So the Antenna dude (Ant_ has gone 16 lines in 2 seconds. The bat has gone 6 in 2 seconds. That means per second  Ant covers 8 lines and Bat covers 3. Counting on this diagram (which is awkward with the fold!) there are 20 lines in between the 0 and the 1. We also know from the sector map at the start of this sector that the track loops round. At what point will the Ant have looped all the way round and caught the Bat back up?

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Hint #5
Hint #5 - There's probably some really clever maths way to do this but I used Excel and set up a formulae to count it out row by row, and when it passed 200 rows, reset it back to 0 and start the count again to account for the loop. I've attached a very messy spreadsheet to this post if you're interested!

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Solution
Solution - 6

 
Posted : 20/02/2024 10:20 pm
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