Of course, for the sake of a “twist” ending to this arc, the last page will probably reveal that Keith “Pike” Feddyg actually survived the destruction of Aegis’ previous headquarters (and prison), and is plotting his revenge…
The second one and the last one are dead dodgy (both of them more ignore a IX than turn it into anything, not to mention the two line thing for the last one), but whatever. NO 1 CURR. We just want to see how it finishes!
Yea, 5 seems like a bogus answer to me. Also, I only see five 6’s, not 6. I see how panel 5 is used for panel 6’s answer, but that leaves only 5 actual answers. Or am I missing something?
#1: Six
#2: 1×6
#3: VI (upside down)
#4: There are six lines left.
#5: Not really a solution, just drawing a 6 on top of the IX.
#6: x = 6
The assignment was to turn nines into sixes, which implies using what’s already there, but as others have said, solution #5 doesn’t seem to use the IX at all, and #6 relies on #5. Are we all missing something?
#5 is close. But they should of actually used the one line to draw two 6’s around the IX. Then they would of successfully made “IX in two 6s” which is the direction I think that solution was going.
Sorry but I agree with those saying # 5 is totally bogus. Even if you rely on “turning” the board to make a 9 into a 6, it still necessitates drawing a 9 over the roman numerals that were already there. If that’s valid, you may as well have just drawn a six over them in the first place. # 6 still remains valid because they could have used the “X =” setup with solution # 4 and it would have worked.
Jesse has it right on the spot. Also #6 relying on #5 is also valid since it was a team exercise. He said (And I mentioned this when I posted mine on the last strip) He said six different ways, not six different solutions. So word twisting, puns, assists, outside the box thinking is all valid. It’s not so much an academic problem, as it’s a “how well can they think on their feet and work together?” sort of problem.
to understand the answers we have to look at who’s making them, we can identify Di’s cuff in 4 so assuming they’re getting called in the order they are sitting in the last comic
1. Rico
2. Hilda
3. Baxter
4. Di
5. The General (can’t remember/find name)
6. Jesse
and they’re mind sets to have an impact on their answers. to explain 5 and 6, 5 is the General using brute force to shape things as she see’s fit, and 6 is Jesse, her dedicated fathersolider using his line to better the General’s answer. 4 is Di working around the rules to break things in a calculated and perhaps unexpected of her way, but it’s when she uses her ice skating background in her fighting instead of the base forms that she excels. 3 is Baxter the hacker, he knows roman numerals, he also knows line wasn’t clearly defined, and sees the shortest path from IX to IV. 2 is a simple answer from a complex woman and 1 is a simple answer from a simple man.
I would argue that all of the characters responses show character development to a degree, Rico is raring to go in the last comic and seems to have little issue, while a year ago he would have been thrown off by suck a puzzle. Hilda is confident, nuff said. old Baxter would have over complicated the puzzle or try to use some historical answer he read online that he couldn’t fully remember, new Baxter is much more direct and influenced by Marc. Di has become more restrained, but at the same time has developed a mental plasticity, I’m not sure that she could have solved it when she just came onto AEGIS, but Rumi trained her well. this perhaps doesn’t apply to the General and Jesse, in the General’s case because we just meet her, and in Jesse’s case because I feel we never get to know him.
these are of course opinions so feel free to disagree
I don’t think that Jesse’s answer is an attempt to make Julie’s answer better, it’s doing what he does best- meshing with the surroundings to get the desired result.
Agree w/ Majestic Bob – I think Jesse finally figured it out. It’s still seems technically incorrect since “turn the nine into a six” doesn’t really equate in meaning to “turn the nine and put it into a six;” but now I have to admit I’m splitting hairs. Very clever.
BTW did everyone just leave Union Jackie bleeding on the street or what? 😉 I mean, she just showed up out of nowhere, got her ass kicked, and then disappeared again.
I thinks this one comic is probably the absolut cleverest comic I’ve ever read. Not only does it have 6 unorthodox solutions to this common puzzle, but each solution corresponds with the personality of the person. From the standard answer, to brute force, to the copycat. I love how Jesse’s answer is so perfect for him; its still a variable.
Okay, I guess #5 works if the act of turning the IX around is what puts it into a 6; that is, if the 6 is not a 6 until it’s rotated properly. If you count it as a 6 from the moment it’s drawn, it’s not so much “turning a 9 into a 6″ as “turning a 9 inside a 6″.
It’s a stretch, but I’m splitting hairs, so I guess it evens out.
Hah! Literally ten seconds after I post my “solutions” The new comic goes up. You just can’t get any better. Lol.
I don’t get the last solution panel. How’s this a six?
the last solution is “x = 6′
bob
the last solution is “x = 6′
But it uses 2 lines.
Somebody else made the 6. It only takes 1 line to change “IX” into “X=”
Final line, final panel: should be “It has its moments, boss.” No apostrophe.
Of course, for the sake of a “twist” ending to this arc, the last page will probably reveal that Keith “Pike” Feddyg actually survived the destruction of Aegis’ previous headquarters (and prison), and is plotting his revenge…
The second one and the last one are dead dodgy (both of them more ignore a IX than turn it into anything, not to mention the two line thing for the last one), but whatever. NO 1 CURR. We just want to see how it finishes!
The second one is completely accurate. Turn IX into 1 x 6.
It’s number five I don’t get.
@Evil Midnight Lurker
I concur. Unless I’m missing something five seems to just be drawing a big ‘6’ and completely ignoring what else is there.
Though it’s a good setup for the last solution.
Also, 4 seems to be upside down.
4 is when you break it up, there are 6 lines, thus creating 6 from 9
Will is “Big Boss.”
Shanna is “The Bossest Boss.”
Until otherwise revealed, this is how I’m imagining their new positions.
Yea, 5 seems like a bogus answer to me. Also, I only see five 6’s, not 6. I see how panel 5 is used for panel 6’s answer, but that leaves only 5 actual answers. Or am I missing something?
they were rotating the bored with answers when necessary for the one with the eraser line was VI instead of IV when it was demonstrated i believe
bonus question can you guess who did with one since Di did panel four?
To summarize:
#1: Six
#2: 1×6
#3: VI (upside down)
#4: There are six lines left.
#5: Not really a solution, just drawing a 6 on top of the IX.
#6: x = 6
The assignment was to turn nines into sixes, which implies using what’s already there, but as others have said, solution #5 doesn’t seem to use the IX at all, and #6 relies on #5. Are we all missing something?
@Ghoti: Yes, it’s the ability to cheat.
Never underestimate it.
Last one counts – whoever did it just overwrote the information that was already there with new data.
#5 is close. But they should of actually used the one line to draw two 6’s around the IX. Then they would of successfully made “IX in two 6s” which is the direction I think that solution was going.
#5 relies on TURNING the board.
So it’s to turn the nine into a six. As in “around 90°”.
Good one! 😀
Sorry but I agree with those saying # 5 is totally bogus. Even if you rely on “turning” the board to make a 9 into a 6, it still necessitates drawing a 9 over the roman numerals that were already there. If that’s valid, you may as well have just drawn a six over them in the first place. # 6 still remains valid because they could have used the “X =” setup with solution # 4 and it would have worked.
Perhaps the answer in #5 is that sometimes it is not math that turns 9 into 6, but art. Like turning a canvas into a painting.
Maybe the doc’s screaming “Nooo!” because he agrees with you guys’ assessment of answer #5. ^_^
So is Friday’s strip the last one ever or what??
Number 5 I think is a pun on “nine into a six” because the nine ends up literally inside it. It’s a joke?
Jesse has it right on the spot. Also #6 relying on #5 is also valid since it was a team exercise. He said (And I mentioned this when I posted mine on the last strip) He said six different ways, not six different solutions. So word twisting, puns, assists, outside the box thinking is all valid. It’s not so much an academic problem, as it’s a “how well can they think on their feet and work together?” sort of problem.
to understand the answers we have to look at who’s making them, we can identify Di’s cuff in 4 so assuming they’re getting called in the order they are sitting in the last comic
1. Rico
2. Hilda
3. Baxter
4. Di
5. The General (can’t remember/find name)
6. Jesse
and they’re mind sets to have an impact on their answers. to explain 5 and 6, 5 is the General using brute force to shape things as she see’s fit, and 6 is Jesse, her dedicated fathersolider using his line to better the General’s answer. 4 is Di working around the rules to break things in a calculated and perhaps unexpected of her way, but it’s when she uses her ice skating background in her fighting instead of the base forms that she excels. 3 is Baxter the hacker, he knows roman numerals, he also knows line wasn’t clearly defined, and sees the shortest path from IX to IV. 2 is a simple answer from a complex woman and 1 is a simple answer from a simple man.
I would argue that all of the characters responses show character development to a degree, Rico is raring to go in the last comic and seems to have little issue, while a year ago he would have been thrown off by suck a puzzle. Hilda is confident, nuff said. old Baxter would have over complicated the puzzle or try to use some historical answer he read online that he couldn’t fully remember, new Baxter is much more direct and influenced by Marc. Di has become more restrained, but at the same time has developed a mental plasticity, I’m not sure that she could have solved it when she just came onto AEGIS, but Rumi trained her well. this perhaps doesn’t apply to the General and Jesse, in the General’s case because we just meet her, and in Jesse’s case because I feel we never get to know him.
these are of course opinions so feel free to disagree
I don’t think that Jesse’s answer is an attempt to make Julie’s answer better, it’s doing what he does best- meshing with the surroundings to get the desired result.
Agree w/ Majestic Bob – I think Jesse finally figured it out. It’s still seems technically incorrect since “turn the nine into a six” doesn’t really equate in meaning to “turn the nine and put it into a six;” but now I have to admit I’m splitting hairs. Very clever.
I liked the answer someone suggested in the previous comic’s comments: “Subtract three,” spoken aloud. One “line” of dialogue.
BTW did everyone just leave Union Jackie bleeding on the street or what? 😉 I mean, she just showed up out of nowhere, got her ass kicked, and then disappeared again.
Should’ve drawn the line THICKER on #5, so you couldn’t even see the roman numerals any more. My two cents.
#5 is IX inside a 6. Whoever did the answer, reasonable guesses aside, put the IX _into_ a 6. A weird grammar pun but still legal.
@Jason … maybe Ally left Excalibur with Jackie to make up for just leaving her there, bleeding and all. 😉
I thinks this one comic is probably the absolut cleverest comic I’ve ever read. Not only does it have 6 unorthodox solutions to this common puzzle, but each solution corresponds with the personality of the person. From the standard answer, to brute force, to the copycat. I love how Jesse’s answer is so perfect for him; its still a variable.
This comic really is simply brillent.
@GregJ Ha, she’d like that, wouldn”t she?
Okay, I guess #5 works if the act of turning the IX around is what puts it into a 6; that is, if the 6 is not a 6 until it’s rotated properly. If you count it as a 6 from the moment it’s drawn, it’s not so much “turning a 9 into a 6″ as “turning a 9 inside a 6″.
It’s a stretch, but I’m splitting hairs, so I guess it evens out.