Oneiromancer
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Registered: 03-29-2003
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Puzzle "tag" (+2)
Since we're all super-duper smarty pants here, I thought it might be fun to start a puzzle "tag" thread. Similar to the movie quote and lyric quote "tag" threads, one person submits a puzzle, and whoever solves it gets to present their own puzzle. I only plan on submitting puzzles that can be explained via text, but if someone really wanted to put an image in their post I think it's okay.
Of course, just like the other "tag" games don't look up the answer anywhere, including asking someone else the answer. If you want a friend of yours to help you puzzle it out that's fine but let's try to keep some semblance of fairness here. Of course this will be on the Honor System but we all seem to be pretty honorable folks here.
Some special rules for this game:
1. If you don't know the answer right away, make posts asking questions for clarification if necessary. Also, some puzzles (like the one I will start with) are almost built to be solved by asking Yes or No questions, so please do so to help yourself solve it.
2. If you do know the answer right away, go ahead and post it. Except...
3. If you have heard the answer before please wait 24 hours before posting it. Part of the fun of this will be solving a new puzzle for yourself, we don't want all the puzzles to be spoiled right away for everyone. If no one seems to be able to solve it (or even get close) then go ahead and answer. Exceptions might be made for really old puzzles that everyone knows, but in that case I'd rather see posts like "I know this one, everyone does, can I please say the answer?" to establish your place, and then we'll see if everyone agrees.
4. NEW RULE 1/1/04: The puzzle should be able to be solved by an average member of this board. So please, no puzzles whose solutions require you to write a program or solve some extremely obscure mathematical equation. Those aren't puzzles anymore, they are problems. We can't stop you from writing a program to solve a "normal" puzzle (although the spirit of the game is to solve the puzzles by hand), but I will have to now prohibit puzzles that require a programming solution or knowledge that is too esoteric or requires a lot of education in a particular field to solve.
5. NEW RULE 1/11/04: You must know the solution to the puzzle you are posting. It's a waste of everyone's time if you don't know what the right answer is to the puzzle you post.
6. NEW RULE 1/13/04: If you don't have a new puzzle ready when you answer correctly, or you can't post one in a reasonable amount of time, then please refrain from answering. A reasonable amount of time should be at most 1 day. I would rather see the topic be empty because no one knows the answer than because there is no new puzzle.
Okay, I think that's it, if any more rules are necessary I will add them later. Here's my first puzzle to start it off.
A man is found dead in a room with 53 bicycles scattered around him. How and why did he die?
As I said before, this is a puzzle that is meant to be solved by asking Yes or No questions, so please ask to help you solve it!
Game on,
[Edited by Oneiromancer on 01-01-2004 at 12:10 AM GMT: Rule #4]
[Edited by Oneiromancer on 01-11-2004 at 08:55 PM GMT: Rule #5]
[Edited by Oneiromancer on 01-14-2004 at 07:54 AM GMT: Rule #6]
[Edited by Oneiromancer on 04-14-2004 at 10:07 PM GMT: Added tagline]
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"He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder." -- Tad Williams
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I prefer logic puzzles where you can actually figure out the answer given the clues without needing to guess or ask yes no questions.