Wie viel Uhr ist es?

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October 20th, 2025, 9:27 pm

A simple puzzle I couldn’t solve…
https://www.scientificamerican.com/game ... -the-time/

I wonder if you’ll also have a problem. Coincidentally, reading a nice book about it at the moment:
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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October 20th, 2025, 10:15 pm

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October 21st, 2025, 7:23 am

That’s the puzzle!

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October 21st, 2025, 8:31 am

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October 21st, 2025, 9:16 am

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import random

phrases = [
    "Dyslexia?",
    "No internet?",
    "No images loading?",
    "You were being held at gunpoint?",
    "Drink, drugs,...?",
    "Mental health issues?",
    "For a bet?",
    "You are lying?",
    "The solution is wrong?",
    "Multiple solutions?",
    "To be annoying?",
    "You've been hacked?",
    "Something involving a cat?"
]

selected_phrase = random.choice(phrases)
print(selected_phrase)

I'm fairly sure that katastrofa not being able to solve a problem is as rare as the Today Programme not being on air. Just in case though, I knocked up some Python so we have a reasonable way of knowing

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October 21st, 2025, 8:03 pm

Could qualify to the category of mental health problems, but not low self-esteem - not ze smallest chance after your comments  Rather maladaptive perfectionism.
The hour hand in the picture is pointing noticeably beyond "50 minutes". It should be at 5/6 of the hour gap (25 deg of 30 deg), so 4 minute ticks + 2/12 = 4.17. In the picture it shows ca 4.35 to my eye. It's 2-3 minutes too far!

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