Puzzle Description:

Why's there a tiger in my boat?!

#1: Belita (belita) on Jul 19, 2018 [SPOILER]

The Life of Pi?

Great picture, but for some reason I never got around to reading the book so didn't get it.

I deciphered the title before solving and hoped it wasn't going to be yet another depiction of the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet. Boy, was I happily wrong. Great twist, and a great depiction of one of my favourite books.

I don't see a boat. I don't see a tiger. I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What book? Please, explain things better. I don't go to movies, so I don't know. I read books, but this doesn't sound familiar.

When I don't understand what people are talking about in a comment thread, I look for something that I can do a search on. In this thread, that would be Belita's comment "The Life of Pi".

If you Google that, the images that will appear are from the 2012 movie and show a boy in a boat with a tiger. If you read the Wikipedia article about either the book or the movie, you will find out that the boy is named Pi.

If you Google "C/2R", you get a mishmash that is not too helpful if you don't have a starting point. If you add "pi" to the end though, Google puts a box with the Wikipedia article about Circumference at the top.

C/2R is a rearrangement of the algebraic formula for pi -- Circumference = 2 x pi x radius, or C=2πR, so π=C/2R.

Remember, Google is your friend.

The main character (from India) is named Piscine by his father, after a public pool that his father once enjoyed. Because Piscine is such an odd name, he quickly shortened it to Pi. His parents owned a zoo, and through plot development, Pi ends up alone on a life boat with a tiger from the zoo.

Thank you Kristen. I did ask a friend, so I knew there was a movie and a book. That helped. When I described the completed puzzle, he was able to explain what part of the book/movie that came from. It all makes sense now.

Thank you Kristen. I did ask a friend, so I knew there was a movie and a book. That helped. When I described the completed puzzle, he was able to explain what part of the book/movie that came from. It all makes sense now.

The book is very good. It's part adventure, part philosophy, part psychology. It's weird. I really liked it. See the movie after reading the book, not before.

The book is very good. It's part adventure, part philosophy, part psychology. It's weird. I really liked it. See the movie after reading the book, not before.

Yes Jane. I found the book to be one of the best I've ever read. Pi is a boy whose family owned a zoo, and (if memory serves, it's been years since I read it) they were moving the zoo across the Pacific to America when the ship capsized. Pi wakes up in a lifeboat, alone, and then a tiger, swimming from the wreckage, climbs in the boat with him. And that's in the first few pages. I was transfixed, and pretty much read the whole thing in one long sitting. And yes, you must read the book first before thee movie!

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