The so called smart card technology based Myki public transport ticketing system of Victoria was introduced in later part of 2009 as the most advanced ticketing system to make the commuters' life easy. Even though I had some reservations and opted out from using it at the beginning, after a year of operation of Myki, I expected maturity of the product and thought to give a try.
After few weeks of use, I wanted to verify the usage by checking the Myki transaction history online. To my amazement, I found that Myki system has been designed to give an extra feature - Myki puzzles, to the commuters.
This is how the puzzle works: Myki provides few figures here and there and leaves the rest to be filled by user to figure-out the usage and remaining balance by considering touch on and touch off times, dates, weekends, holidays, the special time-slot schemes for Myki charging, etc, etc. The reason for mentioning "the special charging scheme for Myki" is that if you follow the rules of Metcard you can not successfully complete the Myki puzzle (Eg: See how Myki's 2-hour system works in the screen shot given below). It is a great brain teaser indeed!
After few weeks of use, I wanted to verify the usage by checking the Myki transaction history online. To my amazement, I found that Myki system has been designed to give an extra feature - Myki puzzles, to the commuters.
This is how the puzzle works: Myki provides few figures here and there and leaves the rest to be filled by user to figure-out the usage and remaining balance by considering touch on and touch off times, dates, weekends, holidays, the special time-slot schemes for Myki charging, etc, etc. The reason for mentioning "the special charging scheme for Myki" is that if you follow the rules of Metcard you can not successfully complete the Myki puzzle (Eg: See how Myki's 2-hour system works in the screen shot given below). It is a great brain teaser indeed!
"The Myki Puzzle"Now I have decided that instead of looking for Mx for Sudoku puzzles, I would take printouts of the Myki transaction history whenever I want to kill some time.
