The super macro guessing game (5)

travisvwright wrote in post #17173496
I'm thinking it hangs so it's fastened and held on by gravity, the opening is on the bottom so if you put something it it it wouldn't stay. Is it some sort of window shade attachement piece?

Yes! Yes! Oh God, yes! [etc.]

First, the original macro. The blue piece is a handle, or grip, for raising and lowering mini-blinds. I placed the camera to photograph it with the window trim as background.

Then another macro that shows the knot that's inside it when it hangs. Retying this knot is "reconfiguring" the cord, which is the next item in the series.

It's interesting that people had so much trouble thinking outside the box until new questions arrived that avoided some unnecessary assumptions.

CanopicJar wrote in post #17173561
String cap for a set of blinds?

Yes, but the person who posted just before you got close enough, sorry.

Good one. And nice job Travis.

I remember why I left this game

Chet wrote in post #17173480
... I have certain liberties...

I always had you pegged for a libertine.

Never would had guessed. Even if I had been trying ...

OhLook wrote in post #17173566
Yes! Yes! Oh God, yes!

Good job!

OhLook wrote in post #17173569
Yes, but the person who posted just before you got close enough, sorry.

No worries, I concur

Congratulations Travis

That took a long time. I thought these bits would help more:

Indoor use only

Lit sharply from one side (suggesting it was near a window)

At one end of the series. Often a unit at the end of the line is something you move to operate the mechanism, like a handle. But no one asked whether you manipulate this to make something happen.

Not on the floor. Not exactly on a wall.

Sort of security-related. That might have got people thinking about doors and windows. Suppose you're in a room, naked, counting your gold bars. There are a couple of reasons you might not want passers-by to see in.

Did these assumptions interfere? (1) The normal place for an object is a surface it rests on. (2) The parts of a mechanism are rigid (nobody thought about string until near the end).

Well here's my first try at this:

Is it leather covered?

Plastic?

CanopicJar wrote in post #17174072
Is it leather covered?

No

Sibil wrote in post #17174099
Plastic?

The part of it in the picture is, not all of it.

Is the entire picture the object, or the upper part?

electric razor in the charging cradle?

OhLook wrote in post #17174004
At one end of the series.

This was repeated but I took it as a linear connection of things, not a mechanism. It sent me down the wrong path. I did think of something attached to a window, but couldn't come with what that could be in a series. It was fun yet frustrating.

Sibil wrote in post #17174119
Is the entire picture the object, or the upper part?

The entire picture is the object.

CanopicJar wrote in post #17174122
electric razor in the charging cradle?

Nope.