Whaddyacallit #276 - Solved! Colani GT

Ray B. · February 18, 2009, 07:43:51 AM

Ever seen this ugly duckling?

If you did, please respond below and let us know the make and model of the car posted here.

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Ray B. · February 25, 2009, 04:53:49 AM

I'd say we again have a shortage of rookies, so...

Arunas · February 25, 2009, 05:07:33 AM

Colani GT

Ray B. · February 25, 2009, 05:08:30 AM

Scratch that question mark.

Arunas · February 25, 2009, 05:12:19 AM

Whaddyacallit #278 - moved straightly for Pros & Feature Writters? C'mon! There's also the expert section!

Ray B. · February 25, 2009, 05:21:50 AM

Why do you feel bad? Is it because you knew it? Nowhere does it say we can't do it.
Most of the Rookie Puzzles are upgraded to Expert level and never reach the Pros. Can't they have their fun too?
I've also just upraded two Art and Cars puzzles, from the Experts' to the Pro and FW section. Very easy ones. They remained a week without a single reply. Yet there was 2 easy points to grab there too.

Arunas · February 25, 2009, 05:24:03 AM

Quote from: Ray B. on February 25, 2009, 05:21:50 AM
Why do you feel bad? Is it because you knew it? Nowhere does it say we can't do it.
Most of the Rookie Puzzles are upgraded to Expert level and never reach the Pros. Can't they have their fun too?
I've also just upraded two Art and Cars puzzles, from the Experts' to the Pro and FW section. Very easy ones. They remained a week without a single reply. Yet there was 2 easy points to grab there too.

I haven't seen this puzzle in expert section somehow

I am for moving puzzles step by step no matter how hard they seem to be and I am totally against any kind of expert discrimination

Otto Puzzell · February 25, 2009, 05:27:18 AM

Tough

Ray B. · February 25, 2009, 05:29:39 AM

Quote from: Arunas on February 25, 2009, 05:24:03 AM
... I am for moving puzzles step by step no matter how hard they seem to be ...

Well, I am not. I am for doing as I please

Arunas · February 25, 2009, 05:36:25 AM

Maybe there's an opportunity to move them for the experts to try their luck?

Ray B. · February 25, 2009, 05:40:32 AM

You didn't read me wel (see above): this is what I do all the time. I just felt like playing it otherwise, for once.

Arunas · February 25, 2009, 05:50:41 AM

Quote from: Ray B. on February 25, 2009, 05:40:32 AM
You didn't read me wel (see above): this is what I do all the time. I just felt like playing it otherwise, for once.

Doind as You please, i.e.not allowing experts even to try their luck means discrimination. And that is not even restricted by any rules! Sad

Why haven't You just moved it to pro section, then?

Ray B. · February 25, 2009, 06:11:31 AM

All right, it means discrimination, I agree. But the whole concept is based on discrimination:

- Experts and Pros are barred from answering Rookie Puzzles
- Pros are barred from answering Experts Puzzles
- Rookies and Experts are barred from answering Pro and FW Puzzles.
I once expressed the same disagreement as you do against promoting puzzles directly to the Pros and FW Section. I understood that fact since and changed my mind.
Believe me, if this is a question of points, an Expert can easily grab one point a day, when a Pro must work hard to make one a week.
You feel bad about what I did mostly because you are (for how long still?) an Expert, just as I may have felt bad about other discriminations affecting the Pros when I became Pro.

But this is not a question of points (I stopped caring about this myself), this is a question of fun. I am taking care that everyone gets his fun. Don't you agree?

Arunas · February 25, 2009, 06:57:12 AM

Quote from: Ray B. on February 25, 2009, 06:11:31 AM
All right, it means discrimination, I agree. But the whole concept is based on discrimination:

- Experts and Pros are barred from answering Rookie Puzzles
- Pros are barred from answering Experts Puzzles
- Rookies and Experts are barred from answering Pro and FW Puzzles.
I once expressed the same disagreement as you do against promoting puzzles directly to the Pros and FW Section. I understood that fact since and changed my mind.
Believe me, if this is a question of points, an Expert can easily grab one point a day, when a Pro must work hard to make one a week.
You feel bad about what I did mostly because you are (for how long still?) an Expert, just as I may have felt bad about other discriminations affecting the Pros when I became Pro.

But this is not a question of points (I stopped caring about this myself), this is a question of fun. I am taking care that everyone gets his fun. Don't you agree?

Described conception isn't discrimination: the better You are the more harder puzzles You have to solve. Simple. Ok, let it be but I hope not much of Your other rookie puzzles will be moved straightly for pros&fw. Or You think experts are too good for Your puzzles?

Ray B. · February 25, 2009, 07:57:32 AM

This guy just wears me out.

Otto Puzzell · February 25, 2009, 08:18:17 AM

As of his morning, there are more than 100 unsolved Rookie puzzles, and around 80 unsolved Expert puzzles. Get cracking on the latter. When you have solved them all, we can discuss this 'discrimination' issue further.

There is ample opportunity for Rookies and Experts to score points. As Pro's can only answer the hardest of the hard puzzles, versus Rookies having free reign in all three, and Experts in 2/3rd's of the puzzles (by volume), letting the Pro's and Editors have their own playground is fair as fair can be.

If Ray, or anyone else decides to post there immediately, or to promote puzzles there from the other sections, they are certainly welcome to do so. Once you become a pro, you can solve those puzzles to which you you were denied access, and show your stuff by solving the puzzles that have heretofore stumped the best of the best.

Allemano · February 25, 2009, 08:43:09 AM

Quote from: Ray B. on February 25, 2009, 07:57:32 AM
This guy just wears me out.

...and I guess he enjoys it.

Arunas · February 25, 2009, 10:19:49 AM

Quote from: Otto Puzzell on February 25, 2009, 08:18:17 AM
Once you become a pro, you can solve those puzzles to which you you were denied access

If PJ or any other Pro doesn't "eat" them for breakfast or lunch

Wendax · December 14, 2011, 02:38:54 PM

Quote from: Ray B. on February 18, 2009, 07:43:51 AM
Ever seen this ugly duckling?

It can always get worse, just add a targa rollbar and some giant air outlets.

Ray B. · December 19, 2014, 07:53:39 AM

Puzzle picture was gone, uploaded again.

Wendax · March 28, 2016, 02:23:38 AM

A contemporary picture:

Wendax · July 27, 2018, 03:09:48 PM

Not the usual Colani aficionados:

Carnut · November 23, 2019, 09:08:55 AM

What's this, by whom, from when - for 1 point?:

Remember - solving puzzles using 'Google Search by Image' is BANNED on AutoPuzzles!

Carnut · December 07, 2019, 03:14:34 PM

Experts?

hermanoto · December 07, 2019, 05:09:36 PM

Colani GT 1970

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Whaddyacallit #276 - Solved! Colani GT