Internet Table-Top Rally Championship 1998

Internet Table-Top Rally Championship 1998
Route Card 15 Solution

TC15 (Out) @ SSE45 (GS 4516)
TC16 (In) @ last plot

Use this clue


3
3
3
3
3
4
4
4
4
4
3
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
4
3


0
0
8
8
8
6
4
7
9
9
0
7
7
5
5
6
4
3
3
2
2
1
9
2
1
0


7
5
8
2
9
9
0
2
8
6
1
1
4
5
7
3
6
9
8
9
8
9
5
8
6
4


1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1


0
1
0
1
0
2
3
4
6
7
5
6
5
4
2
5
6
5
5
5
5
3
2
3
2
2


2
6
3
8
7
8
6
5
0
5
4
0
0
0
6
5
2
1
8
9
8
4
9
1
6
0

or this (only suitable for internet computer nerds) - they give the same results

tt-d1.gif (6758 bytes) tt-d2.gif (6802 bytes) tt-d3.gif (6852 bytes) tt-d4.gif (6436 bytes) tt-d5.gif (6748 bytes) tt-d6.gif (6879 bytes)

Route Checks.
1) Number of telephones passed on route.
2) Number of gradient arrows crossed on route.
3) - 10) List, in order, the first eight GSs where you join White roads.

TC16 (In) @ 345 129

The first clue gave a list of 6-digit map references, and although the numbers in each column were in the right sequence (with a wraparound from bottom to top) you were not given the starting point. So ideally you had to make each column in a reel (like the fruits/symbols on a one-arm bandit) and rotate them independently until you had a sequence of 26 plotable via map references.

The second clue (only available to Internet competitors) could be solved two ways. The easy way was to print the route card. This should just have shown the first numerals in the six-digit graphic sequence. One you'd got that, and therefore the correct starting position of the "reel", the list of map references was easy. The harder way was best suited to those into computer graphics. There were six graphics, each made up as an animated GIF file. If you copied the GIF file and decomposed it into it's individual graphics, each showed the map reference digits in the correct order.

438 158, 436 164, 424 159, 427 151, 415 156, 398 150, 422 132, 419 126, 409 133, 400 128, 402 127, 388 108, 386 116, 381 105, 361 110, 344 105, 375 124, 397 130, 393 140, 406 160, 379 176, 378 155, 359 162, 358 151, 369 148, 345 129

There was uncertainty about the shortest route in near GS 3810, hence the alternative answers for RC1 and RC2.

Route Check Answers:
1) 5/6 2) 6/8 3) 4216 4) 4212 5) 4012 6) 3410 7) 3712 8) 3715 9) 3616 10) 3615