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Everything Else / Re: Riddles
« on: September 02, 2005, 02:02:23 PM »
I am really puzzled by this because unless you know more about the game or the game show it really shouldn't matter if you switch your guess or not.
A lot of people describe Scalzi’s Old Man's War novels as military science fiction, but I would classify its sequel Zoë’s Tale as a space opera. It’s a story about, well, Zoë, a teenage girl whose parents are invited to take leadership roles in building a colony on a new planet. Zoë is an enthusiastic member of the group sent to colonize Roanoke, despite the risks—and the risks are considerable even before the political machinations of greater powers boil to the surface. Continue reading Zoë’s Tale
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this time you are definitely right, Legion. I'll shut up about it in public.
Here's my pseudoriddle:
What makes a good riddle?
(Not puzzle, mind you. Riddle)
I've got another interim one.
You are staying in a motel one night and your wallet is stolen from your room. You tell the manager who promptly tells you that you must leave, seeing as how you can now no longer pay for your room.
"I will have my family send me the money", you say. But alas, the money will not arive for 7 days.
"If you have something to offer as collateral, then I will allow you to stay" the manager says.
You have a gold chain, but you don't really trust him. You suspect that if you give him the whole chain he will likely take it, then kick you out anyway.
There are 7 links in the chain, and each gold link is worth one night in the motel. You decide that you will give him only one link per night's stay.
How many cuts do you have to make in order to have the proper number of links?
You have to back up your answer with verbiage...
what cuts deeper than any blade, sears the soul in the fires of hell, and crushes the spirit?