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Post by Treijim on Jul 20, 2007 19:31:42 GMT 9.5
The idea isn't just to fit all the clues, but to get the correct answer. Nobody said you're wrong. Your answer wasn't the one he was looking for, that's all.
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Post by thetriangle on Jul 24, 2007 17:58:43 GMT 9.5
But if the only thing that makes one answer that fits the clues any different from another one is that the person who asks the riddle only knew one than the only way we can know that one is different from the other is by reading the riddlers mind!
It’s like being told in an exam to write a 1000 word essay and then being failed because it was not the exact same essay that the examiner had written!
Anyway, I have another riddle I would be delighted to share. It’s not technically a riddle, (its known as a fallacy) and the objective is to find where the error in logic is. As an extra challenge, your answer must be made in the same poetic form as the fallacy. It’s probably not going to be as difficult as the last one, but I like it.
Ten weary footsore travelers
All in a woeful plight
Sought shelter in a wayside inn
One dark and stormy night.
“Nine rooms, no more!” the landlord said,
“Have I to offer you,
To each of eight, a single bed
But the ninth must serve for two.”
A din arose. The troubled host
Could only scratch his head,
For of those tired men no two
Would occupy one bed.
The puzzled host was soon at ease,
He was a clever man,
And so to please his guests devised
This most ingenious plan.
Two men he placed in room marked A
The third was lodged in B
The fourth to C was then assigned
The fifth retired to D
The sixth in E was tucked away
In F the seventh man
The eighth and ninth to G and H
And then to A he ran.
Wherein the host, as I have said
Had laid two travelers by.
Taking one, the tenth and last,
He lodged him safe in I.
Nine single rooms, a room for each
Was made to serve for ten
This it is that puzzles me,
And many wiser men.
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Post by Treijim on Aug 12, 2007 11:19:30 GMT 9.5
Beats me...
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Post by memoricprism on Sept 9, 2007 6:19:13 GMT 9.5
So, technically we're to fill in the last stanza of the fallacy?
It seems impossible. But I suppose do-able.
I'll take some extra time into it.
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Post by wildfiremagni on Oct 2, 2007 12:47:46 GMT 9.5
Okay, okay, I think I have it this time!
Of the ten men that entered, only nine were lodged
In this simple building
The 'tenth' was actually the second
Did the final one go sing?
I think that's it, but feel free to shoot down my answer for potential wrongness...
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Post by thetriangle on Oct 27, 2007 20:06:33 GMT 9.5
Correct! someone get that man a cookie!
my personal favorite answer is -
We all did hear the din that night
as ten raised hue and cry,
Twas number two, not number ten
that lodged in room marked I!
but yours is just as valid, so well done!
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Post by Chrysophylax on Oct 27, 2007 20:10:02 GMT 9.5
Tch. >_> He cheated, give us another puzzle!  |
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Post by thetriangle on Oct 27, 2007 21:20:12 GMT 9.5
Another one huh?
oky, this is one i wrote not long ago, and so far no-one has guessed it right, so I'm begining to suspect its too difficult, but here it is anyway. It's a standard riddle, not a fallacy btw.
Just note, i made up the word "enigmás". its just "enigmas" but with the last "s" pronounced as in "skin", and this hopefully changes the stress. the word has the same meaning as the singular "Enigma"
on with the riddle!
" By a shard and a sliver will the silver giant fall.
What means this strange enigmás, cryptic writing on the wall? "
Good luck!
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verbed
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Post by verbed on Oct 30, 2007 9:59:39 GMT 9.5
Is the key to this puzzle in your made up word? If we changed it to just normal "enigma", would the riddle still be able to be solved?
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Post by wildfiremagni on Oct 30, 2007 12:15:27 GMT 9.5
Well, Triangle said that it means the same, so I'd guess it would still be able to be solved.
Also, thanks for the cookie.
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Post by thetriangle on Oct 30, 2007 15:56:09 GMT 9.5
The made up word doesn't effect anything except the poetic structure of the verse, and either way is not very significant to the meaning, it's basically just saying that it is a riddle.
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Post by verbed on Oct 30, 2007 22:49:31 GMT 9.5
Hmm . . . for a bit I was thinking that maybe "a shard and a sliver" was talking about the accent over the 'a' in enigmas but it didn't really lead me to the silver giant. And if the made up word doesn't affect the riddle then I suppose the shard and sliver is something else.
Oh well- just sharing ideas. *Keeps thinking*
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Post by memoricprism on Nov 14, 2007 2:26:44 GMT 9.5
Shard and a sliver, magic and tome?
Or Crystal and encasement?
The seal to let the giant fall?
The magic that has held the Giant in place?
My brain hurts from thinking, it's difficult, worth a try though. =]
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Post by thetriangle on Nov 22, 2007 20:43:06 GMT 9.5
Okay, I think I’ve hurt enough people’s heads with this one, so here’s the solution
The riddles answer is a mirror.
Mirrors used to be construct by a layer of silver (or some other reflective metal, these day’s it’s mostly aluminium) behind a pane of glass, so when the mirror broke (possibly by falling) you would be left with shards of glass and slivers of metal.
So, to recap,
Shard and sliver is glass and silver,
The silver giant is a big mirror falling off the wall and breaking to create the shard and sliver.
All this is totally screwed up and shoved into a nicely poetic verse simple huh? … Don’t look at me like that, I told you it was hard!
Anyway, memoricprisim, how does shard and sliver make magic and tome, I don’t understand! And I like understanding things…
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