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Welcome to the toy workshop. The sorter remembers its dial positions but has lost the labels on its pulse cards. Your team has the original records on the table. First recover five pieces of information, then use the final plan to configure the toy parcel sorter. Keep every result beside its badge so another teammate can check your reasoning.
Rotate player roles · Choose a useful hint · Manage two teams
Look at the training cards that share one signal.
In an unordered pair, a word cannot be assigned by its left/right position. Use the overlap with another pair.
Give each signal a different word, check every training example and only then decode the received message in its printed order.
WAIT-SEND
A consistent one-to-one mapping satisfies every training example. Use the complete mapping to read the two-signal message in order. Result: WAIT-SEND.
Start with the status field in Parcel cards.
The tag links an item to a bay; rows in separate records need not line up.
Keep only entries meeting every status test. Follow each printed join to the report field; do not guess from row position.
WEST
Check source status first, then join the matching tag. The useful information comes from separate records, not their printed row order. Result: WEST.
Compare the same numbered position in the two strips.
A difference belongs to a pair of positions and is counted once, even when both shapes differ.
Mark every changed pair, check the unmarked pairs, then count your marks. Ignore titles and box outlines.
5
Different positions are 1, 3, 4, 6, 8. There are 5 differences. Result: 5.
Find the equal parcels and the separate loose units.
Remove the loose units before sharing the remaining weight among equal parcels.
Find one parcel from the first equation, then substitute that weight into the second equation before recording it.
8
Remove 4 from 28; share 24 among 3 parcels to get 8. Check 2 x 8 + 3 = 19. Result: 8.
Find all the event cards and the before notes.
Connect cards linked by the notes; a card position is counted from the beginning of the completed order.
Check every before relationship, then read only the requested position. The printed card arrangement is not the answer order.
6
The only order is Test parts > Fit gears > Seal parcel > Send parcel. Position 3 carries 6. Result: 6.
Find the starting states, dial order and pulse-card key.
Each selected vector lists turns for every dial. Several different cards can affect the same dial.
Add one dial column at a time to its starting state, wrap around the three-state loop, then check that all five pulse cards were used.
A0-B2-C0-D2-E0
Select one pulse card for each of the five badge results. Add the turns by dial column to the printed starting states and wrap each total around 0, 1, 2. The checked configuration is A0-B2-C0-D2-E0; each pulse pair has equal size and total turns, so its shape does not identify the correct choice.
Pause whenever the group needs a break. This is a planning estimate.