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Post by MrBlarney on May 29, 2008 17:09:08 GMT -8
You arrive at the challenge and see on a sign:
If you count my lines
You get what I mean
What am I?
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Post by MrBlarney on May 29, 2008 17:10:11 GMT -8
a barcode?
musical staff?
a play / television script?
an abacus?
polygons?
a speedometer?
a flask?
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Post by devoutlyapathetic on May 29, 2008 17:20:13 GMT -8
Haiku?
Though that doesn't really work with the last bit.
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Post by MrBlarney on May 29, 2008 17:24:27 GMT -8
Haiku? Though that doesn't really work with the last bit. Nor with the second line - a haiku is generally 5-7-5, while the challenge clue is 5-5-3. I'm leaning toward a barcode, but that's more about spacing and width of lines (and the spaces between) than counting the lines themselves. |
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Post by devoutlyapathetic on May 29, 2008 17:25:59 GMT -8
The barcode is a decent guess there.
Edit: I dislike the word "mean".
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Post by MrBlarney on May 29, 2008 17:27:06 GMT -8
Well, I'll post it as a guess, and we'll have two more tries (yours and Plutonium's).
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Post by plutonium on May 29, 2008 17:36:33 GMT -8
Hmm, let me think about this.
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Post by plutonium on May 29, 2008 17:40:49 GMT -8
the Mean could be a reference to a mathematical mean, the average.
Anything about counting to get the mean, maybe some type of graph?
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Post by MrBlarney on May 29, 2008 17:43:36 GMT -8
the Mean could be a reference to a mathematical mean, the average. So, "a histogram" could be a potential answer under that interpretation? |
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Post by plutonium on May 29, 2008 18:18:55 GMT -8
I submitted a bar graph of some sort, using my interpretation of the mean as an average.
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Post by devoutlyapathetic on May 29, 2008 19:14:55 GMT -8
Yea, I was thinking about that but I don't think a histogram yields an average by simple counting.
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