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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 8, 2017 19:54:42 GMT
This one is probably easy, but there's a twist to it. And, when you've figured that out, here's the twist: |
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 8, 2017 22:52:41 GMT
Nalkarj --- Club password. Another wild guess:
12 = 6 letters
6 = 3 letters
10 = 3 letters
The man should have said 3.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 8, 2017 22:55:47 GMT
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 8, 2017 23:02:03 GMT
Yo!!! That's it for me for the night. Have fun!  |
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Post by brimfin on Jun 8, 2017 23:42:26 GMT
Okay, way too many puzzles to quote one by one so: A detective who was mere days away from cracking an international oil smuggling ring has suddenly gone missing. While inspecting his last-known location, officers find a note: 710 57735 34 5508 51 7718. It reads “Bill is boss. He sells oil.” So Bill is the guilty party. (Ye olde calculator code. Type it on a calculator and you can see the letter conversion easier.)
A man is found murdered on a Sunday morning. His wife calls the police, who question the wife and the staff, and are given the following alibis: the wife says she was sleeping, the butler was cleaning the closet, the gardener was picking vegetables, the maid was getting the mail, and the cook was preparing breakfast. Immediately, the police arrest the murderer. Who did it and how did the police know? The maid’s alibi is all wet, as mail isn’t delivered on Sunday.
One dark and stormy night, a man is sitting in a room with several other people. Suddenly, one of the others kills the first man and leaves the room. The next day, the murderer confesses to the police, his conscience having got to him in the interim. The police go to the room--and they see the dead man lying there still--but surrounded by fifty-three bicycles! Your question: why did the murderer kill his victim? He was a dirty bicycle thief – stealing bikes from little kids. So their parents took the bikes and dumped them on him in contempt. Just kidding. Actually: He was a card cheat. I’m old enough to remember that Bicycle was a famous brand of playing cards. The fact that there were 53 of them means he had one extra card up his sleeve! Still, couldn’t the killer have just said, “Naughty, naughty, shame on you!”
A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms: the first is full of raging fires; the second, assassins with loaded guns; and the third, lions who haven't eaten in years. Which room is the safest? If the lions haven’t eaten in years, they must be dead.
However, the joke was on him. As they sealed him in the room they told him this was the slowest punishment – death by slow starvation; at least the other two were quick!
But wait! Two days later the real killer gets drunk and brags about how he killed a man and framed our innocent friend. They rush to unseal the room and he is removed, hydrated, and exonerated! (I actually heard this one before so I had to embellish.)
A wealthy man lives alone in a small cottage. Being partially handicapped, he had everything delivered to his cottage. The mailman was delivering a letter one Thursday when he noticed that the front door was ajar. Through the opening he could see the man's body lying in a pool of dried blood. When a police officer arrived he surveyed the scene. On the porch were two bottles of warm milk, Monday's newspaper, a catalog, flyers, and unopened mail. The police officer suspects it was foul play. Who does he suspect and why? The newspaper deliverer – why was there only a Monday paper on a Thursday? Either he was the killer, or he knew the guy was dead and yet didn’t report it. Suspicious behavior either way.
A man murders his wife with a knife in their car. Nobody is around to see this. He throws her out of the car being careful not to leave any fingerprints on her body. Next he throws the knife off of a cliff into a gorge where it will never be found and he goes home. An hour later the police call him and tell him that his wife has been murdered and he needs to come to the scene of the crime immediately. As soon as he arrives, he is arrested. How did they know he did it? Cause he was dumb enough to show up where he dumped the body, at which point I’m sure they asked him, “And just how did you know where the scene of the crime was?” and he went, “D’oh!”
You fall asleep and awake in a corridor. You go up the corridor and there are three rooms, each of them has a window (at the far end of the room) big enough to climb through and exit the building. BUT! If you enter the first, you will fall into a pit filled to the brim with poison. If you enter the second, you will see that it has mirrors positioned in such a way that the window lets in sunlight, which reflects onto all of the different mirrors pointing towards the door--so that, if you enter the room, you'll be burned to death. If you enter the last room, you will trigger spikes to fall on your head as soon as you enter the room. Which room do you enter and why? As there is no indication of immediate peril, I’d just wait until nightfall and then enter the second room, which should pose no danger when the sun’s not out.
A man wants to enter an exclusive club, but he doesn't know the password. Another man walks to the door and the doorman says 12, the man says "6," and is let in. Another man walks up, and the doorman says "6," the man says "3," and is let in. Thinking he had heard enough, our hero walks up to the door, and the doorman says "10," he says "5"--and the doorman throws him out on his heels. What should he have said? I’m guessing “6”. You take the number of digits in the number the doorman gives you and multiply it by 3. How was a man shot in a country without guns? You can get shot by an arrow as well.
(Haven’t figured out the second part yet, though. Would have said he got drunk, and was thus shot. But you said “shot to death” so...)
Didn't forget the long poem puzzle. That will take some cogitating. Last but certainly not least, I’d like to thank salzmank for his kind comments on my “Hillary’s excuses song” in the Music section. Much appreciated, friend. |
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Post by brimfin on Jun 8, 2017 23:50:32 GMT
Okay, here's a puzzle from that often delightful show, THE MENTALIST. Patrick Jane knows that there's a Doctor Baker in a large building full of doctor's offices but he also knows Baker is just a code name. So he pulls the fire alarm and waits patiently as all the doctors file out into the street. He then announces, "I'm sorry about the ruse, but I needed to find where a Doctor Baker is." He waits for several moments and then he walks up to a young woman and says, "Dr. Baker, I presume." "How did you know?" she asks, impressed. "Easy," he says, "when I asked where Doctor Baker was...." What is the rest of his revelation?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 9, 2017 0:05:49 GMT
Okay, here's a puzzle from that often delightful show, THE MENTALIST. Patrick Jane knows that there's a Doctor Baker in a large building full of doctor's offices but he also knows Baker is just a code name. So he pulls the fire alarm and waits patiently as all the doctors file out into the street. He then announces, "I'm sorry about the ruse, but I needed to find where a Doctor Baker is." He waits for several moments and then he walks up to a young woman and says, "Dr. Baker, I presume." "How did you know?" she asks, impressed. "Easy," he says, "when I asked where Doctor Baker was...." What is the rest of his revelation? she was the only one who did not look around to see who would answer ? "In joke" is that Patrick Jane is played by Simon Baker. |
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Post by brimfin on Jun 9, 2017 0:29:35 GMT
Okay, here's a puzzle from that often delightful show, THE MENTALIST. Patrick Jane knows that there's a Doctor Baker in a large building full of doctor's offices but he also knows Baker is just a code name. So he pulls the fire alarm and waits patiently as all the doctors file out into the street. He then announces, "I'm sorry about the ruse, but I needed to find where a Doctor Baker is." He waits for several moments and then he walks up to a young woman and says, "Dr. Baker, I presume." "How did you know?" she asks, impressed. "Easy," he says, "when I asked where Doctor Baker was...." What is the rest of his revelation? she was the only one who did not look around to see who would answer ?
Correct. His exact words were, "...everybody else looked around - everybody but you. You already knew where Dr. Baker was." "In joke" is that Patrick Jane is played by Simon Baker. Great catch. I couldn't remember the real doctor's name, so I used Baker as a nod to Simon. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 9, 2017 0:47:12 GMT
brimfin "so I used that name instead as a salute.
Here I thought that I had discovered an in joke all by myself. During the intermission while the others are working on the puzzles (especially that poem one !), I have an OT question for you. On The Mentalist ... did you ever think that Rigsby was NOT played by an American ? I saw him in a Midsomer Murder episode and thought that he was putting on his UK accent for that show. What a surprise ! Anyway. Train of thought brought on by the Mentalist. Now ... :)Back to the real puzzles.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 9, 2017 1:45:33 GMT
Apologies, brimfin, for not doing what I promised and analyzing your Weste solution in more depth. I'll try to do it tomorrow morning. |
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 9, 2017 13:02:12 GMT
Unless the words "shot", "death", and/or "shot to death", are used in a metaphorical sense two possibilities come to mind:
a) shooting-up? i.e. drug addict
b) "Umbrella" killing, e.g. Georgi Markov |
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 9, 2017 13:14:54 GMT
Unless the words "shot", "death", and/or "shot to death", are used in a metaphorical sense two possibilities come to mind:
a) shooting-up? i.e. drug addict
b) "Umbrella" killing, e.g. Georgi Markov For (b) I wasn't thinking of anything so literal. For (a), it was an idea that I had at first--I came up with this puzzle myself--but I was thinking of something else. Let me repeat that it was a projectile that was shot, and that the act of shooting was itself what killed the man. Hope that helps! |
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 9, 2017 13:30:06 GMT
OK, brimfin. First, for the smaller puzzles: You're absolutely correct about the cards. Although, to be sure, I think the Bicycle Company still makes playing cards. Also correct about the three rooms. Incorrect about the exclusive club and the password, though you're essentially right on top of it. Look back at what you wrote and then the numbers. You're very welcome re: the Hillary Clinton song. Somehow it doesn't surprise me that riddlers engage in wordplay: I know Tarathian does, and I do by means of poetry and detective stories, and you do too, it seems. I'll try to keep silent about the politics, but suffice it to say that mine are similar to yours, if that song is any indication of yours. tarathian123, I've been racking my brain in going through my (limited) Biblical knowledge to solve the poem-puzzle. My thoughts are (because of the indications of "made before Adam") on those old standbys of the bizarre in the Bible, Lilith (Adam's first wife according to Jewish mythology, albeit not to the Bible itself) and those representations of primordial chaos, Leviathan and Behemoth. No idea if I'm going in the right direction, especially as the stanza re: "light" seems anomalous if the answer is indeed one of these. I also don't know if the poem is supposed to be taken so literally. |
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 9, 2017 14:10:50 GMT
I'm not a biblical expert either, but the answer is mentioned in the Bible. That said, I gather it's also mentioned under alternative names depending on which version of the Bible you read. The poem is not really a metaphorical exercise, and imo is quite literal. It obviously depends on how you read it. |
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 9, 2017 14:47:20 GMT
Nalkarj - Shot to death A rather obscure idea:
A soccer player shooting a ball, e.g. a penalty shot, the effort of which gave the player a heart attack from which he died.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 9, 2017 14:54:25 GMT
Nalkarj - Shot to death A rather obscure idea:
A soccer player shooting a ball, e.g. a penalty shot, the effort of which gave the player a heart attack from which he died. Not particularly obscure, in fact, but really rather clever. To be sure, it's not what I was looking for, but it does fit the criteria I set out before (perhaps I shouldn't have included cameras in the description before--that seems unlikely even in the country that has banned all kinds of weapons). The only one that it may not fit is the passive voice used in the expression "was shot"--because the ball was shot, not the man, correct? Although I suppose it may work, if we use it as we use the expression re: firearms.
Anyway, as I said, not what I was looking for, but it's actually the closest so far.
Without giving too much away, may I say--think of what the government of the country-without-guns would do? Not anything out of the ordinary just because there are no guns, I hasten to add, but just one thing that (some) governments do. Hope that's not too oblique. Indeed, let's add a little more meat here and say that the man was a prisoner, an enemy of the state, who had been put to death--by shooting, of course. That may be the clue you need. |
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 9, 2017 15:28:49 GMT
I had thought about state execution, but I can only think of firing squad (they have guns), lethal injection (which I've already covered in a way), gas chamber, but I've never heard of it referred to as being "shot to death", nor likewise electrocution, guillotine, garotting, hanging, starvation, the rack, thrown into a live volcano, or eaten by wild animals in the Colosseum. I know I'm going to kick myself when I finally get it. Has anyone else got it yet? |
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 9, 2017 15:40:07 GMT
Not yet, tarathian123 . I hope the wording of the question is not so vague that you'll all be disappointed when you hear the answer, but I think it's satisfying. By the way, being thrown into a live volcano is surprisingly close , at least to my mind, but my saying that may actually lead you down the wrong path. |
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 9, 2017 15:49:53 GMT
Another thought... 1. Stoning to death, but then that's more or less the same as shooting in that it's the projectile that kills and not the act.
2. Burning to death at the stake perhaps?
3. Crucifixion?
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 9, 2017 17:42:10 GMT
Another thought... 1. Stoning to death, but then that's more or less the same as shooting in that it's the projectile that kills and not the act.
2. Burning to death at the stake perhaps?
3. Crucifixion?
None of those, but you're so very close. |
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