This is Jason. On January 13, 2015 the CM dropped a new card related point:
After some unsuccessful guesses the CM reset the clock and provided a hint:
In the special grid the last names of the players within a row are in ascending alphabetical order. This is one of the keys and it’s where my name for the point comes from… 9 card shuffle.
I went back to the original grids and ordered each row by last name and then had a cell with the card number next to it. I’ll walk through the one with Maddux in the first row since that’s the one that the CM hinted about.
Maddux 127 | Simmons 172 | Vizquel 67
Fisk 158 | Teheran 229 | Trout 101
Cingrani 240 | Snider 261 | Strasburg 333
I realized that the hint was saying to take the 9 cards in the grid and produce 3 NEW cards and from those produce 1 NEW card. I looked at what I created and in my spreadsheet I actually had something that looked more like this:
Maddux 127
Simmons 172
Vizquel 67
I took a leap that each card number would produce one of the digits of the card number and since the sort order was relevant I thought that it might be first card = digit one, second card = digit two, third card = digit three. Do this for each row and you get:
177 - Anthony Rizzo
121 - Freddie Freeman
263 - Alfonso Soriano
I knew I was on to something when I checked out the images of these cards. Rizzo and Freeman are portrait, while Soriano is landscape like in the hint.
Adam happened to sign on, the clock was ticking down and I told him where I was at. I had not made the next logical leap yet, and was not sure yet how to get to a single card from here. Adam suggested I just do the same thing again with these cards. Sort and then pull the digits:
Freeman - 121
Rizzo - 177
Soriano - 263
This produces card 173 - Jose Fernandez
The three cards from the other grid in order are:
Bautista - 185
Holliday - 170
Lester - 103
As you can see you get 173 again, so it’s confirmed that this is right. Point scored just before the clock reset - pretty fun one.
Looking for a card. Same rules as last time; one guess per 24-hour period. Let's call it 4pm EST. #thegintercode pic.twitter.com/vqUr5hgEsj
— Ginter Code (@TheGinterCode) January 13, 2015
This produces the same card. #thegintercode pic.twitter.com/vf4oewzYBQ
— Ginter Code (@TheGinterCode) January 13, 2015
I saw two things right away: all the cards are baseball players, and one of 9 in each group is a landscape orientation. Bonus observation: the landscape cards are both pitchers. This led me to some ideas of what might be going on, and my general goal was produce the same number from each grid to represent the new card.After some unsuccessful guesses the CM reset the clock and provided a hint:
Clock has reset. This may help get you where you want to go by tomorrow. #thegintercode pic.twitter.com/rXifvWhJ8r
— Ginter Code (@TheGinterCode) January 14, 2015
I wasn’t quite sure what this was supposed to mean. I noticed that the rectangles were the same orientations as the cards in the first row of the other grid. I thought I figured it out a few times with various additions of characteristics of the cards, but a few resets later another grid was sent out:
If the clock resets tomorrow I'll tell you what's special about this example. #thegintercode pic.twitter.com/kjjlZMGEZl
— Ginter Code (@TheGinterCode) January 16, 2015In the special grid the last names of the players within a row are in ascending alphabetical order. This is one of the keys and it’s where my name for the point comes from… 9 card shuffle.
I went back to the original grids and ordered each row by last name and then had a cell with the card number next to it. I’ll walk through the one with Maddux in the first row since that’s the one that the CM hinted about.
Maddux 127 | Simmons 172 | Vizquel 67
Fisk 158 | Teheran 229 | Trout 101
Cingrani 240 | Snider 261 | Strasburg 333
I realized that the hint was saying to take the 9 cards in the grid and produce 3 NEW cards and from those produce 1 NEW card. I looked at what I created and in my spreadsheet I actually had something that looked more like this:
Maddux 127
Simmons 172
Vizquel 67
I took a leap that each card number would produce one of the digits of the card number and since the sort order was relevant I thought that it might be first card = digit one, second card = digit two, third card = digit three. Do this for each row and you get:
177 - Anthony Rizzo
121 - Freddie Freeman
263 - Alfonso Soriano
I knew I was on to something when I checked out the images of these cards. Rizzo and Freeman are portrait, while Soriano is landscape like in the hint.
Adam happened to sign on, the clock was ticking down and I told him where I was at. I had not made the next logical leap yet, and was not sure yet how to get to a single card from here. Adam suggested I just do the same thing again with these cards. Sort and then pull the digits:
Freeman - 121
Rizzo - 177
Soriano - 263
This produces card 173 - Jose Fernandez
The three cards from the other grid in order are:
Bautista - 185
Holliday - 170
Lester - 103
As you can see you get 173 again, so it’s confirmed that this is right. Point scored just before the clock reset - pretty fun one.
You might want to focus your efforts on the two most recent points. #thegintercode pic.twitter.com/7yiQ57Zcwk
— Ginter Code (@TheGinterCode) January 17, 2015
Man, you guys were all over this one. I never had a clue. Nice work
ReplyDeleteNice leap on the 067 for Vizquel.
ReplyDeleteOur strategy was to guess landscape oriented cards :)
Isn't there one more solution you guys didn't post?
ReplyDeleteFinished writing it last night. Should be posted soon.
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