C-PLJ09 (Oct 31, 2023)
Puzzle
“~5.52 x 10^26.”
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Clue
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Clue 1: ~ denotes approximation.
Clue 2: Don't leave things up to chance.
Clue 3: Calling five in a row.
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Bingo
Explanation: There are 5.52×10^26 (552 septillion) possible arrangements of the numbers on a bingo card.
Summary of Receipt
Summary
Transcript
Receipt: C-PLJ09
Author: Nick
Status: Cafe
Subject: Joy
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Max: There she is!
Jericho: Joy…
[Jericho placed his hand on the large luminescent crystal housing Joy.]
Jericho: I’m… sorry. I shouldn’t have—
Travis: There’ll be time to apologize later. We need to get her out of her first.
Jericho: Right.
Salenna: Aelan, can you get your little buddies to lift her up?
Aelan: Of course! Assuming she’s not too heavy anyway.
Jennifer: I’ll signal Dan to pull the House around.
Sahir: Is it Wednesday yet? For whatever sense of time the House abides by, anyhow.
Max: Eight more minutes, according to Zach’s calculations.
Nick: We should’ve left later… What if—
[Thick, inky shadows lurched out from beneath the matted webs of Eve’s den, restraining Nick, Jenni, Aelan, Sahir, Salenna, Travis, Max, and Jericho before encasing Joy’s crystal.]
Travis: Eve?!
Sahir: Damn it, so much for buying time.
Jennifer: No… these shadows—
[Umbra the Hatman arose from the center of Eve’s web.]
Umbra: Well, if it isn’t an assortment of friendly faces.
Jericho: Umbra! What the hell do you think—
[Umbra tightened his shadow tendrils around Jericho, pulling him closer.]
Jericho: Agh-!
Umbra: I would say it isn’t personal, Jericho, but I would be lying, wouldn’t I? I take such great satisfaction in besting you, after all.
Complexico: Save your villain speeches for later, Umbra. The longer you talk, the more time you give them to buzz in.
Umbra: I’ve done my part. What more would you have me do?
Jean-Marc: There is no reason to antagonize them. They did us a great service, after all. This would have been much harder if Eve was still around.
Nick: Jean?! What the hell are you doing?
Jean-Marc: Fixing things, of course. Without Fate… there are no more limitations. I can finally, truly, fix things. But—we’ll need Joy to do so.
Nick: I-I looked up to you. We all did.
Jean-Marc: It pains me that you’ve lost your faith in me, Nick. But, if it was easy, it wouldn’t be worth—
Jennifer: Shut the hell up. You never cared about any of us. We’re just tools to you. We’re trying to save Joy because we care about her as a person. You just want to use her, don’t you?
Jean-Marc: You lack vision, Jenni. Joy is beyond saving. She is just a means to an end. Why are you all so content to sit around letting unseen forces decide when to call it? I admit, without Joy, I’ve felt the same fear you have. That nagging uncertainty of if and when the end will finally come. But now? Now I can call the shots. And I won’t close this tab until all the debts are fully paid. You have my word.
[Jean-Marc snapped his fingers as the crystal holding Joy sunk into a plume of xanthic flames. Then Umbra, Complexico, and Jean-Marc left the CaDCom transcription range.]
Nick: No—no! He always— GODDAMN IT, JEAN!
[The House of Hamilton crackled into existence just above Eve’s web.]
Jennifer: I know, Nick. I know. Come on. We can’t stay here.