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[TRAILHEAD?] Gishwhes

**Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:28 am

OmegaX

DON'T call the number. It's a reference to the song "867-5309/Jenny" by Tommy Tutone. Years (decades) ago the phone companies around the world had major problems because of people flooding their lines with calls to that number when the song came out.

EDIT: Other than that, and besides the fact that I haven't checked out the video yet and only know Misha Collins as Castiel on Supernatural, this looks kind of interesting.

**Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2011 11:34 am

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Re: [TRAILHEAD?] Gishwhes

**Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:40 pm

SHawthorne · Guest

Greatest Internet Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen.

GISHWHES.

**Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:43 pm

Farnathi · Guest

A twitter acount that is listed on the Gishwhes landing page has posted a riddle.

Okay, Gishwhesheans, what’s 66 (at prime), black, extremely lucky and a prodigy of St. James?

**Posted:** Sun Sep 11, 2011 6:53 pm

tornok · Veteran Joined: 27 Aug 2011 Posts: 80

i did a search for Jea Louis Enterprises led me to this: http://spikeschilde621.tumblr.com/post/10103150008/gishwhes

plus: http://koryuu-kun.tumblr.com/post/10030799450/jean-louis-global-enterprises-inc-200-my-place-is

**Posted:** Sun Sep 11, 2011 7:33 pm

TheCake

**Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:01 pm

mmdoogie

Does the word "prodigy" in the riddle seem weird to anyone else?

I mean prodigy usually refers to a crazy-talented person; but other definitions are "a wonderful example of something" or "an amazing or marvelous thing" which could be applicable, but the phrase "prodigy of St. James" just doesn't sound right to me.

**Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:34 pm

OmegaX

**Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:52 pm

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tornok · Veteran Joined: 27 Aug 2011 Posts: 80

the puzzle was figured out

**Posted:** Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:57 pm

TheCake

Just got the email myself, though for me the circuit diagram wouldn't show, so thanks for posting it. I remember nothing about Circuit graphs though.

The "**f**l****" when clicked on leads to this insanely priced Ebay auction-

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-National-Cash-Register-Decorative-Art-842-/220655717627#ht_500wt_1413

It is an antique rare cash registered numbered 842. Another clue xP Though I have nooo idea.

For the riddle, I spent a few hours yesterday on google trying to tie the clues together...found nothing much. 2/3/11 was Chinese new year, the year of the rabbit, and rabbits are lucky. That is literally all I could find tying the clues together. But yeah, pretty sure that's way off. I'm sure the phrasing of 'prodigy' and 'prime' MUST be signifigant in some way.

The plot thickens...

**Posted:** Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:28 pm

tornok · Veteran Joined: 27 Aug 2011 Posts: 80

but what was the answer to the riddle?

**Posted:** Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:15 pm

artisticad@ · Guest

Gishwhes

**Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 2:24 am

jono · Decorated Joined: 07 May 2008 Posts: 264

Well the diagram is a bit odd

The R is a resistor (a non-variable one)

I have never seen the other symbol before, so I am unsure what it could be, I was always taught that V something was for Voltmeters but a voltmeter should be put parallel to a circuit.

Also it seems to have no cell, unless the things labelled V are a different way of showing a power cell (but neither me or a physicist I asked have seen it done that way before) so maybe we have a non-working cell?

**Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:48 am

inkflamewriter

I'm actually taking a class on circuit analysis, so I was *very* happy to see this one Very Happy

Actually, it is a symbol for a power source of some kind. My instructor uses it in his diagrams, which is how I initially recognized it. The "+/-" gives it away!

Other than that, I really don't know what to do with it. It's a circuit with one resistor and two power sources. But anyway, I'm off to go work on the homework for the very class that helped me here...good luck! Wink

**Posted:** Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:23 am

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