Wine Bottles Puzzle

[Dr. Noise]

I feel like I know what to do and yet it's not working. Hints?

[Maestro23]

The year of the bottles.......if you got that then it's not how many you push..............if you need more than...................................................it's just in what order of a date.

[Dr. Noise]

age of the winery is what I figured I'd be going by, but that doesn't seem to be working out for me. However I input it into the bottles.

[Maestro23]

If I remember the date 1879, right? so row one click botton 1 row 2 click botton 8 down....and so forth...

[Dr. Noise]

yeah, it's 1879 but no combination works. Top, Bottom, blah blah blah.

[Lansu]

The bottles are a 4x9 grid, 4 numbers in the date, 1-9. So starting from the top, first bottle, 8th bottle down 2nd row, 7th bottle down third row, bottom bottle forth row. I had a little trouble with this one because its hard to tell which bottles are in, I thought I had it wrong, but I really just had a spare bottle pushed in somewhere.

[Sap3r3aud3]

You can either push the bottles in or pull them out. Are you pulling the numbered bottles out? If that's not working...

[Gerry Hatrick]

In spite of the hints I'm still stuck on this! To be clear: you start with all bottles out? For 1879, 1 is the first bottle (top left of the rack?). What next - what is 8 - last bottle in second row?This approach doesn't work for me...Simple explanation please!!!

[UnrealDelusion]

Originally posted by Gerry Hatrick:

In spite of the hints I'm still stuck on this! To be clear: you start with all bottles out? For 1879, 1 is the first bottle (top left of the rack?). What next - what is 8 - last bottle in second row?This approach doesn't work for me...Simple explanation please!!!

Have all bottles out.

1 - top bottle in left row
2 - eighth bottle in the 2nd row
3 - 7th in the 3rd
4 - 9th in the last row

[Dr. Noise]

I figured it out thanks to Lansu's hint last week...well, more like direction on what to do. lol. I kept pushing in the amount of bottles per number vs. their location on the "grid." At least I had the right idea. lol

[Gerry Hatrick]

Thanks guys but I still have this mental block re "8th bottle in second row" as each row only has 4 bottles! Do you start counting at 1st bottle in first row, so 8th is last bottle in second row?
7th in 3rd row? Again only 4 bottles in 3rd row....Duhhhhh!

[UnrealDelusion]

Originally posted by Gerry Hatrick:

Thanks guys but I still have this mental block re "8th bottle in second row" as each row only has 4 bottles! Do you start counting at 1st bottle in first row, so 8th is last bottle in second row?
7th in 3rd row? Again only 4 bottles in 3rd row....Duhhhhh!

you're thinking wrong :) Each row has 9 bottles and work from the left to right.

[The Nothing Man]

possibly the easiest puzzle in the game,
when looking at the sign tex even mentioneds

1879 hmm 1.. 8...7...9

he says it just like that. lol

rows across 4 by 9 bottles per row down
1 | 2 | 3 | 4
---------------
1* 1 1 1
2 2 2 2
3 3 3 3
4 4 4 4
5 5 5 5
6 6 6 6
7 7 7* 7
8 8* 8 8
9 9 9 9*
----------
1 8 7 9
pressing the * ones will open

4 sets of 9 rows with max of 9 per row

my bro did the same thing, sometimes the simple puzzles can stump the most brilliant minds hehe

[Gerry Hatrick]

OK this is where I am going wrong - there are 4 COLUMNS of 9 bottles with 4 bottles in 9 ROWS. Now it makes sense!!

[The Nothing Man]

jep of course mate
sorry if that was to much a spoiler

[glynnkt]

Looks like all got past it - issue I found was if you miskeyed once could not "redo" - backed out to last solved game and redid and that handled it - just in case anywone else runs into that.... figuring the 1879 and going L>R for 4 columns seemed pretty straightforward, but getting it to execute required backing out.