The Riddle-Game

A book!








e.h.b

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Originally Posted by e_h_b

A book!


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Indeed!

(Sorry it took so long to confirm!)

I'll leave the riddle-making to someone else, too swamped to actually make one.:eek:









e.h.b

There are ten lit candles in a room, the window is open and the wind blows out 2 candles. You leave for a moment, when you come back, the wind blew out one more candle. You close the window. Assuming no more candles are blown out, how many candles are left in the end?

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Originally Posted by ChampionSword

There are ten lit candles in a room, the window is open and the wind blows out 2 candles. You leave for a moment, when you come back, the wind blew out one more candle. You close the window. Assuming no more candles are blown out, how many candles are left in the end?

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10. Some may have blown out, but they're still candles in the room.

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Originally Posted by ChampionSword

There are ten lit candles in a room, the window is open and the wind blows out 2 candles. You leave for a moment, when you come back, the wind blew out one more candle. You close the window. Assuming no more candles are blown out, how many candles are left in the end?

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There are still ten candles in the room, regardless of whether they are lit or not.

Heres Mine:

It is said that nothing travels faster than light, but there is something that is always there before it...

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Originally Posted by MapsYYY

It is said that nothing travels faster than light, but there is something that is always there before it...

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Darkness. /10char

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Originally Posted by Mad_Bombardier

10. Some may have blown out, but they're still candles in the room.

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Originally Posted by MapsYYY

There are still ten candles in the room, regardless of whether they are lit or not.

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I'm surprised you guys didn't get it.

In the end there are 3 candles, seven continued to burn and melt, but 3 were blown out, thus they did not melt.

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Originally Posted by ChampionSword

I'm surprised you guys didn't get it.

In the end there are 3 candles, seven continued to burn and melt, but 3 were blown out, thus they did not melt.

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Ack, what kind of fool leaves burning candles unattended! :eek: I'm reporting you to the Shire Minister of Public Safety. :p

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Originally Posted by ChampionSword

I'm surprised you guys didn't get it.

In the end there are 3 candles, seven continued to burn and melt, but 3 were blown out, thus they did not melt.

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You did not give any indication of time passing in the end so how can you go with 3? I think most of the people here were probably thinking "the end" referred to right after the window was shut. Oh well :)

Fast and slow,
As the years flow,
Lined up in a row,
Bringing rain, sun, and snow
Fields to hoe,
Seeds to sow,
Plants to grow,
Harvest to mow,
Temperatures high and low,
To the changes of it we owe,
Where ever the winds blow,
We'll find these, we know,
Time and life on the go.

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Originally Posted by MissGrace

Fast and slow,
As the years flow,
Lined up in a row,
Bringing rain, sun, and snow
Fields to hoe,
Seeds to sow,
Plants to grow,
Harvest to mow,
Temperatures high and low,
To the changes of it we owe,
Where ever the winds blow,
We'll find these, we know,
Time and life on the go.

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The seasons?

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Originally Posted by koifishkid

The seasons?

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That's it :)

Here's three riddles for ya:

1. What gets bigger the more you take away from it?

2. 3 guys need to buy bread, they pay 1 dollar each. In total there is now 3 dollars, and a fourth guy (hasn't paid) goes out to buy it. The bread only costs $2.5, meaning 50 cents are spare. The fourth guy decides 50 cents can't be split between 3, so he decides to keep 20 cents and pays back each of the three other guys 10 cents. The 3 guys have now actually paid 90 cents each. So, 3x90 = 270 cents. 270 + 20(what the fourth guy kept) = 290. Where has 10 cents disappeared?

3. A runner wants to run a certain distance - let us say 100 meters - in a finite time. But to reach the 100-meter mark, the runner must first reach the 50-meter mark, and to reach that, the runner must first run 25 meters. But to do that, he or she must first run 12.5 meters. Since space is infinitely divisible, we can repeat these 'requirements' forever. Thus the runner has to reach an infinite number of 'midpoints' in a finite time. This is impossible, so the runner can never reach his goal. In general, anyone who wants to move from one point to another must meet these requirements, and so motion is impossible, and what we perceive as motion is merely an illusion. Is this so? If not, then how can you logically explain the concept of the runner covering what is in fact an infinite number of mid points before reaching the finish line?

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Originally Posted by peregrinite

Here's three riddles for ya:

1. What gets bigger the more you take away from it?

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A hole.

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Originally Posted by peregrinite

2. 3 guys need to buy bread, they pay 1 dollar each. In total there is now 3 dollars, and a fourth guy (hasn't paid) goes out to buy it. The bread only costs $2.5, meaning 50 cents are spare. The fourth guy decides 50 cents can't be split between 3, so he decides to keep 20 cents and pays back each of the three other guys 10 cents. The 3 guys have now actually paid 90 cents each. So, 3x90 = 270 cents. 270 + 20(what the fourth guy kept) = 290. Where has 10 cents disappeared?

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It's actually 270 cents MINUS 20 cents. The guys paid 250 cents for the bread, plus 20 cents to the fourth guy for getting it for them. 250+20=270, same as 3x90=270.

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Originally Posted by peregrinite

3. A runner wants to run a certain distance - let us say 100 meters - in a finite time. But to reach the 100-meter mark, the runner must first reach the 50-meter mark, and to reach that, the runner must first run 25 meters. But to do that, he or she must first run 12.5 meters. Since space is infinitely divisible, we can repeat these 'requirements' forever. Thus the runner has to reach an infinite number of 'midpoints' in a finite time. This is impossible, so the runner can never reach his goal. In general, anyone who wants to move from one point to another must meet these requirements, and so motion is impossible, and what we perceive as motion is merely an illusion. Is this so? If not, then how can you logically explain the concept of the runner covering what is in fact an infinite number of mid points before reaching the finish line?

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Ah, I have to go do some research to answer this one, and I'm sleepy at the moment :D

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Originally Posted by peregrinite

3. A runner wants to run a certain distance - let us say 100 meters - in a finite time. But to reach the 100-meter mark, the runner must first reach the 50-meter mark, and to reach that, the runner must first run 25 meters. But to do that, he or she must first run 12.5 meters. Since space is infinitely divisible, we can repeat these 'requirements' forever. Thus the runner has to reach an infinite number of 'midpoints' in a finite time. This is impossible, so the runner can never reach his goal. In general, anyone who wants to move from one point to another must meet these requirements, and so motion is impossible, and what we perceive as motion is merely an illusion. Is this so? If not, then how can you logically explain the concept of the runner covering what is in fact an infinite number of mid points before reaching the finish line?

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Browsing through the Hall of Fame thread....

Because the finite time used to cover the finite distance is as infinitely divisible as the distance itself (100m in 10 seconds, 50m in 5 seconds, 10m in 1 second, .1m in .01 sec, ad infinitum), so following the logic of the riddle the runner has infinite time in which to travel the infinite distance.

Or more simply, it's because there's a difference between something being infinitely divisible, and being infinite. Otehrwise, a dollar in my pocket would make me infinitely wealthy... something I admit I wouldn't mind!

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Originally Posted by renowiggum

Browsing through the Hall of Fame thread....

Because the finite time used to cover the finite distance is as infinitely divisible as the distance itself (100m in 10 seconds, 50m in 5 seconds, 10m in 1 second, .1m in .01 sec, ad infinitum), so following the logic of the riddle the runner has infinite time in which to travel the infinite distance.

Or more simply, it's because there's a difference between something being infinitely divisible, and being infinite. Otehrwise, a dollar in my pocket would make me infinitely wealthy... something I admit I wouldn't mind!

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Zeno would be proud!

SL

Wow, I cannot believe I've missed this thread up until now, what fun!
This is the first riddle I've ever made, I do hope it is poorly crafted.


In great green domed foe's trove I'm found.
O'er my output your faces have frowned.
Splotched parts have been lifted,
Botched bangles are gifted,
But succeed, you fail, yield is bound.

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Originally Posted by Moochi

In great green domed foe's trove I'm found.
O'er my output your faces have frowned.
Splotched parts have been lifted,
Botched bangles are gifted,
But succeed, you fail, yield is bound.

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I've changed my mind around from the initial thought of Helchgam to the Watcher.
But after much deliberation, I have come to the realization that the foe's trove you speak of is Filikul.
And the bound failure of a success is Nornúan's Head.
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/791...nshot00028.jpg

Please tell me I'm correct.. or at least close :p

Clever piggy! Right trove, wrong trinket! hint: [answer omitted] is being fixed book 8 and is mentioned in patch notes. That should clinch it.

It's gotta be the Peerless Turtle-shell Bracelet.

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Originally Posted by Taralom

It's gotta be the Peerless Turtle-shell Bracelet.

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The Turtle-shell Bracelet Recipe it is. Your turn, Taralom.



In great green domed foe's trove I'm found. The recipe is found in Nornúan's Mossy Chest.
O'er my output your faces have frowned. The recipe is broken in the opinion of many, but being fixed in book 8, we think.
Splotched parts have been lifted, One of the components, the speckled shell fragment, stopped dropping when the turtle raid opened.
Botched bangles are gifted, The non-crits, with near equal stats, are BoE and can be given to characters other than the crafter.
But succeed, you fail, yield is bound. The crit version is BoA, so if you want to make one for a friend, until book 8 goes live, you're stuck with it.

Here is a new riddle:

Wielder of great wisdom
Bearer of a beryl
Did he fall in a former life
With a demon in a quarrel?

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Originally Posted by lastalliance

Here is a new riddle:

Wielder of great wisdom
Bearer of a beryl
Did he fall in a former life
With a demon in a quarrel?

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GLORFINDEL

this may be the only riddle Ive ever known right off the bat

Who departed to cross the waters, but did neither depart or return
Whose ransomed token gave title deferred
Whose Kingdoms name, spoken in tongues of old, rise in legends apart and new.

Have at it.