Clue 1: Dealer
Clue 2: 1.44
Clue 3: IC*
What's the Trylateral?
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A new game for idle minds. RULES: 1. I'll give you 3 seemingly unrelated clues. 2. You'll have to think laterally and connect these clues to a person, animal, bird or thing. 3. You can post your solution in the comments section. 4. The one who cracks the puzzle first gets one brownie point from me. 5. I will put out a thousand puzzles in the next one year. The person with the most number of brownie points will be crowned as the champ.
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Dealer - Trying to figure this one out
1.44 - Chandrashekar's mass limit
IC* - icy star - cooling star - White dwarfs are basically cooling
Trylateral - White dwarf stars??
Dealer - 'shake'r => shekhar
1.44 - Chandrashekhara limit (of 1.44 solar masses)
IC* --> I SEE STARS --> thru their X Ray Emissions
Hence the chandra X-Ray space observatory.
ANS. LEGSPIN
Clue 1: Dealer = Still thinking
Clue 2: 1.44 = CHANDRASEKHAR limit
Clue 3: IC* = 99 not out i.e. SHANE WARNE's highest test score
Chandrasekhar & Warne are amongst the best Leg Spinners that cricket has seen. Hence, I'd guess Legspin.
I guess Dealer cd directly translate to Spinner in the context of a Casino.
Alternatively,
Clue 1: Dealer = Vendor, ABDUL QADIR was a fruit vendor before he turned a cricketer.
Again, ABDUL QADIR is one of the top leg spinners to have played cricket. So it ties in with Legspin.
1.44 The Mikoyan Project 1.44/1.42 is a Russian Air Force prototype fifth-generation air-superiority fighter aircraft
1.44 floppy disk theory
Ans. OPENING BATSMEN
Clue 1: Dealer = MERCHANT = VIJAY MERCHANT
Clue 2: 1.44 = CHANDRASEKHAR limit = V B CHANDRASEKHAR
Clue 3: IC* = 99* = GEOFF BOYCOTT was the first batsman to be left stranded on 99*.
The common factor is that all the above batsmen were OPENERS for their teams.
so near yet so far.
The answer is Boeing 727
-dealer is mixed up for leader
-1.44 is double of .72 which is the value of Sin which is the wing angle of Boeing Airplanes(thats why they are 727 etc)
-IC is Indian Airlines which was the leader (long long ago)
and Boeing is also the market leader
i guess its wide of the mark , but well ...
anuradha was almost there...
Dealer ---> Chandler--> discovered the Nova Borealis
1.44 ---> the Chandrasekhar solar mass limit for white dwarfs
Icy star is a neutron star / black dwarf
Trylateral --> All events in white dwarfs
Dealer-->Merchant of Venice-->Shylock-->Dwarf (White!!)
1.44--> Chandrashekar's mass limit pertaining to White Dwarfs
IC*-->Icy star-->Cold/Cooling Star-->White Dwarfs
White Dwarf-Connect
answer is white dwarf.
dealer -- leader -- chandrasekar
or chandrasekhar azad -- leaders
-- chandrasekar subramaniam --
white dwarf man
1.44 -- chandrasekar limit
IC* -- icy star --cool star ---
white dwarfs cool to temperatures
at which they are no longer visible.
o.k
IC* = ICY Star ==> our SUN
Hence TryLateral=SUN
Black hole
deal-er- is a contract-er- a shrinking star
1.44- chandrashekar limit
IC*- icy star
or may be a white dwarf.
i am not too happy with your guesses. but since the trylateral has been cracked through collaborative effort, i'll have to award half a point to anuradha & half a point to kasthuri. in the future, i shall reward points only if you give me the entire answer...anyway here's my solution:
CLUE 1: Dealer = Wheeler Dealer = Wheeler = John Wheeler, the man who coined the term 'black hole'.
CLUE 2: 1.44 = Chandrasekhar's limit = minimum solar mass of a star to become a black hole.
CLUE 3: IC* = Icy Star = Frozen Star = What black holes were called before they were called black holes.
TRYLATERAL: Blackholes
Anuradha gets half a point for being nearly there. Kasthuri gets half a point for her Contract-er guess.
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