The Most Unsuccessful Game (Saturday, April 22, 2017)

In the early 1900's, board games began to become increasingly popular. However, one company in particular did not receive popular reviews from critics. This company was known as the International Board Games and Company. Their first, and only game, was called "Detective". In the game, each of the players worked to solve a murder mystery by using lots of Calculus, Chemistry, Physics, and History. This turned out to be very unsuccessful, as the game usually took over 50 hours. Below we have attached some of the tasks players were given. Hopefully you can see why this game was very unsuccessful, because we didn't know what else to write about.

• You find a thermometer and discover that the temperature of the victim's body is 80 degrees Fahrenheit. 30 minutes later, the body is at 78 degrees Fahrenheit. Given that the room has a temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit, and it is 6 pm, when did the murder take place? Hint: Use Newton's Law of Cooling, write a differential equation, and solve for T.

• You find a bottle of an unknown liquid next to the victim and believe this to be a clue. Using your chemist skills, you discovered this chemical, H3PO4. First, you need to find the pH levels of the chemical to determine its affects. Secondly, you must check the victims family history to see if there are any genetic traits that could lead to an allergic reaction. Finally, using a pundit square, determine if the victim obtained this allergy.

• Check the back of the paper found in the desk drawer. There you will find a secret message written in binary. Translate the code to find a clue.

• By looking at the victims health records, you've determined that he/she is allergic to copper. Next to the body is a knife which has an engraving. Translate the engraving to determine if the brand of knife contains copper. To determine the year of the knife, look at the carbon dating records.

• In the mansion of the murder, a security camera picked up two pictures of the victim running. The camera takes a picture every 5 seconds of the mansion entrance. In the first picture, the victim is caught near the plant and in the second photo, the victim is found near the fountain. The fountain has a radius of 5.4 feet, and the plant has a radius of  of 1.3 feet. Between the two, there is 30 brick tiles which are the same size as those used to build the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. Determine the speed the victim ran.