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Hey, is there somebody here who knows a fair bit about electrical circuitry? We've been struggling with an electrical puzzle over at Ages of Ilathid for a couple of months now, and we could use some advice from an expert. Thanks!

Try moving the slider to the left...

Have you tried turning it off then back on again?

Hmmmmm an expert - let us see - an ex is an unknown quantity in math
in hydraulics a spurt is a drip under under pressure

does that mean you want an unknown drip under pressure - oh well I will give it a try

Is there power available
If power is not available to the device Is the room's fuse blown or circuit breaker tripped
If power is not available to the device are its batteries or power core charged
have you tried replacing the device's batteries or power core
If power is available Is the device plugged in
Is the device's fuse blown or circuit breaker tripped
Is the device turned on
If this is an Audio Device are the speakers connected
If this is an Audio Device is the volume turned on or up
if the device requires an input source, are they or it connected

I'm no eletrician expert so I can't help you design that puzzle; but (at the risk of stating the obvious) I do hope that I won't need to be one to be able to solve it either..

Don't cross the streams!

Maybe this Logic Map of the Human Brain can help you design a better Puzzle Mousetrap

Lol, this is some pretty good advice considering you guys aren't getting paid $40/hr.

Have you tried turning it off then back on again?

Yes, we've tried that multiple times. The problem is that when the person turns it on they start jerking and twitching all over the place and it's no good trying to get an answer from them after that. So that's why we need more people to try it so that we can figure out where the problem is.

I'm no electrician expert so I can't help you design that puzzle; but (at the risk of stating the obvious) I do hope that I won't need to be one to be able to solve it either..

Well, what we really wanted to do an ingenious puzzle where you had to add up a bunch of voltages until you got 59 volts, but in the end we decided that it might be a bit arbitrary. But not too worry, the puzzle shouldn't be that difficult, especially since we've incorporated a virtual graphing calculator into the interface. Much easier, and it cuts down on the amount of journals required to solve the puzzle considerably.