Whatever arcane knowledge inscribed on this traveller's scroll is irrelevant. Our hero in this tale is clearly a wily adventurer, and knows well the danger of Grues.'A man is walking along a corridor with a piece of paper in his hand with information on it. As he is walking the lights in the corridor flicker and he returns back the way he has come. Why?'
The answer I was looking for is that he is walking down a corridor in a jail, carrying a pardon for an inmate about to be executed. When the lights flicker he knows that the inmate has been executed, so he returns, knowing there is no reason to continue.x EvilErmine x said:c) The man is a warden in a prison, the information on the paper is a pardon for a death row inmate, flickering light means the man has just been executed by electric chair so the man goes back the way he came because there's no point in pardoning a dead dude.
Aren't light flickers a well known stereotype of electric chairs?SirBryghtside said:Just looked up the answer, and it's not just one of 50 billion possible answers, it doesn't even make sense.
So in this facility, the electric chair's wiring is so badly designed it causes the lights to flicker when turned on. Right...
Yeah, that's the problem with these kind of puzzles. Some of them can be pretty clever, but so many of them are either especially vague that too many things work, completely implausible, or the answer is really fucking stupid...or all of the above.SirBryghtside said:Just looked up the answer, and it's not just one of 50 billion possible answers, it doesn't even make sense.
So in this facility, the electric chair's wiring is so badly designed it causes the lights to flicker when turned on. Right...
I saw something similar to this.MelasZepheos said:New puzzle.
A man is lying a telephone box. His hands are cut and bleeding, the glass on either side of him is broken, the phone is off the hook. What did he do and why did he do it?
Damnit. That's what I was going to try to get to.DarkRyter said:Is the phone booth puzzle
the one where he went fishing and tried to do the "I cause one THIS big" and he hit his hands through the phone glass?
The telephone box is on a moving conveyor belt and is about to be dropped off into something deadly.MelasZepheos said:New puzzle.
A man is lying a telephone box. His hands are cut and bleeding, the glass on either side of him is broken, the phone is off the hook. What did he do and why did he do it?
Ugh, that's so stupid.DarkRyter said:Is the phone booth puzzle
the one where he went fishing and tried to do the "I cause one THIS big" and he hit his hands through the phone glass?
This is what I thought also...Boyninja616 said:I saw something similar to this.MelasZepheos said:New puzzle.
A man is lying a telephone box. His hands are cut and bleeding, the glass on either side of him is broken, the phone is off the hook. What did he do and why did he do it?
Is he a fisherman?
I agree, but it's kind of fun to see the different interpretations.Elcarsh said:That first part of you is right. This has nothing to do with lateral thinking, it's just someone providing far too few clues to arrive at the correct solution without blind guesswork. There is nothing clever or witty about it. It is actually completely and utterly impossible to reason your way to the right answer, which makes this excercise stupid.dyre said:What's up with these puzzles? Part me of me thinks that anyone with a half ounce of common sense would instantly realize that these vague open-ended puzzles (with allegedly only one correct solution) are just load of crap, while part of me wonders if I'm just spectacularly retarded at puzzles.