Puzzle Description:

Once again, WINNER receives the GRAND PRIZE of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!

#1: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Mar 1, 2012

edge logic on the 6 clue in r20 with line logic to finish
no guessing

11-11-11?

11th Hour

very good guess
that could be it

I could give a clue, but it would be too obvious.

Would it help if the colour orange was one of our options?

Not really.

My first guess was A Clockwork Orange.:)

except for the fact that the arrow doesn't point straight up I would have guessed "High Noon".

North by Northwest!

terrific guess!

Kristen is the GRAND PRIZE WINNER of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!

So much NOTHING, so little time...

Clocks have more than one hand. Compasses, just one. I am going to have to be more tricky at this, now that I am caught almost solely listing from the Top 100. That is why I felt I was clean with every title produced.

Yes, clocks have more than one hand, but sometimes they align to appear as one hand. Compasses on the other hand almost never have an indicator that extends from the center in one direction, they are bidirectional. Just sayin'.

Clocks line up in the following pattern:
n 5n 5n/11 :)
1:05 5/11
2:10 10/11
3:16 4/11
4:21 9/11
and so on
11:55 55/11=12:00
(one of the obscure formulae I still remember from math classes)

The asymmetry made me think it was an orange too.

One nit - the arrow is not pointing to NxNW. NW is 45 degrees left of 12:00, NNW is 22.5 - halfway between N and NW. NxNW and WxNNW split those two directions in thirds - NxNW is 37.5 degrees left of 12:00, or 10:45. (And WxNNW would be 30 degrees, or 11:00.) That arrow looks like it is closer to 12:00 than 10:30, more like 11:30 than 10:45 - which would be NxNNW (North by North-North-West).

I can't claim that I would have gotten it if the arrow had been pointing differently though - I thought the image was for Doomsday Clock (I don't know if that is a movie title or not).

Thanks for the explanation John but I went to wikipedia and I'm now more confused than ever. The article says that the "quarter winds" (NWbN) split each of the "half winds"(NW & NNW) in half. This would give points every 11.25 degrees. The weird part about this system is that there is no NbNW. The article does gives a NbW, NWbN, NWbW, and WbN but no NbNW.

Well, it's been many decades since I was in Scouts, so my memory may have lapsed. Wikipedia is using the reverse of the nomenclature that was standard when I learned it though - what I learned as North by NorthEast, they are calling NorthEast by North, putting the adjustment after the base direction. (Their reversed order is sensible, but it is definitely opposite of what was standard nomenclature, at least in Canadian Boy Scouts, and also as referenced by the TV show.)

So, perhaps the person that wrote that entry also made a second mistake (or deliberate correction of traditional practice) in omitting the X by XXX points and dividing in halves at that finest level. (However, since dividing angles in half is much easier than in thirds, it is at least as likely that I have altered my memory over the years).

OK. i was as literal as I could be given my self-imposed parameters ;)

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by dbouldin.

so weird...i just saw a very similar equation (#15) a friend of mine posted on facebook!

hmm, was I that friend? ;)

perhaps :P

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