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Knowlessman hey i dunno, why don't you tell me from Stupidtown, USA (FL) Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
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#951: Apr 12th 2014 at 3:14:37 PM

That black metal doohickey you keep folders closed with? Wait, that doesn't have a spring in it.

Does the answer have a spring in it? Is that what the spool is?

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Bisected8 A casual tief of punk from Her Hackette Cave (Primordial Chaos) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#952: Apr 12th 2014 at 3:18:04 PM

Nope, nope and good guess, but; nope!

TIP 3: Think along the lines of something from 20 Minutes into the Future.

edited 12th Apr '14 3:18:43 PM by Bisected8

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#953: Apr 12th 2014 at 3:48:04 PM

Is it...a video projector?

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#954: Apr 12th 2014 at 4:01:41 PM

Nope (those are already all over the place). Repost (since it was left on the last page);

Arms that pull metal to push it,
Spools that stay wound to use it

TIP: Consider what's made from a spool of something and can pull things.
TIP 2: Consider all the meanings of the first word.
TIP 3: Think along the lines of something from 20 Minutes into the Future.
TIP 4: The spool is of wire (and, as mentioned above, not a spring).

edited 12th Apr '14 4:37:07 PM by Bisected8

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#956: Apr 12th 2014 at 4:36:49 PM

Clocks have coils of wire in them?

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#957: Apr 12th 2014 at 4:38:37 PM

Some clocks do. I think...

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Knowlessman hey i dunno, why don't you tell me from Stupidtown, USA (FL) Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
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#958: Apr 12th 2014 at 5:14:27 PM

Some sort of magnet? I think big ones have spools of wire.

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#959: Apr 12th 2014 at 6:43:50 PM

Getting closer.

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#961: Apr 14th 2014 at 3:12:29 PM

Nope, no coils or pulling.

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Fuzy2K Li'l Shardfinder from Toad Highlands Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#962: Apr 14th 2014 at 8:21:08 PM

A pulley?

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#963: Apr 15th 2014 at 4:16:52 AM

Nope, any spools of wire involved with one would need to be unwound.

TIP 5: It's an electronic device.

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#964: Apr 15th 2014 at 8:55:33 AM

I'm not sure about the arms, but it sounds like a solenoid actuator, or possibly just an electric motor.

edited 15th Apr '14 8:57:49 AM by Noaqiyeum

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#965: Apr 15th 2014 at 10:22:46 AM

Getting closer (remember tip 2).

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Knowlessman hey i dunno, why don't you tell me from Stupidtown, USA (FL) Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
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#966: Apr 15th 2014 at 12:25:37 PM

A robot? :|

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#967: Apr 15th 2014 at 12:26:36 PM

No...

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#969: Apr 15th 2014 at 1:49:07 PM

Or a railgun. Though Noa's probably right.

edited 15th Apr '14 1:49:47 PM by Frishman

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#970: Apr 15th 2014 at 2:30:51 PM

Coilgun is correct (a railgun...well uses a rail rather than coils and wouldn't have been correct; although it's close enough I'd have given up the answer).

edited 15th Apr '14 2:31:15 PM by Bisected8

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Knowlessman hey i dunno, why don't you tell me from Stupidtown, USA (FL) Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
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#971: Jan 30th 2015 at 9:31:10 AM

My directions are clear, and extremely exact,
And conveniently so, I am rather compact.
Though I can be confused, I am mostly correct,
So when you've lost your bearings, I'll help you collect.
What am I?

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#972: Jan 30th 2015 at 9:43:24 AM

A compass?

Knowlessman hey i dunno, why don't you tell me from Stupidtown, USA (FL) Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
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#973: Jan 30th 2015 at 10:48:14 AM

Dammit. Aye.

You got one, Anolis?

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#974: Apr 11th 2015 at 2:07:55 PM

The beggar in the marketplace owns nothing but empty cups. Fill all but one with tea and he will praise you; yet spill a drop into the last and he must instantly die of thirst. Explain.

- Qī, the Scribe

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#975: Apr 11th 2015 at 3:20:08 PM

As a computer programmer, I've heard this one.

But, just for fun:

  • He needs the last cup dry to keep his begged-for money in.
  • All the cups are connected and serve as a Pythagorean cup.
  • He's deathly allergic to tea. His only real hope for survival is selling the cups of tea; by fouling his last cup (and leaving him with nothing to drink from), you've doomed him.

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