Riddles

[Siyanor]

Here's a riddle:

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A man is sitting at home reading when, suddenly, his son is struck with a terrible illness, and would surely die within a few days. The man knew of only one way to cure it. The man's father had told him of a garden, only fifteen minutes from the man's house on foot, with hundreds of varieties of plants, cut into hundreds of equally sized sections with only one type of plant in each part. There was one plant that could cure any ailment. However, the man's father told him that no one could leave the section of the garden that contained the plant until a hundred years after picking it. If this is true, how is the man able to return home with the plant to cure his son?

 

[Prometheus]

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Reach over? Take it from a dead body w/ some? Throw his son in there? Get off the crack & ecstasy?

 

[Siyanor]

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Reach over? Take it from a dead body w/ some? Throw his son in there? Get off the crack & ecstasy?

None of those are correct.
If he reaches over, his arm will be in the region. So that doesn't work.
Any dead bodies would still be in the region.
He isn't American, he has a frontal lobe.. so neither of the last two will work.

 

[trb92]

Siyanor's Riddle

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The man's father lied, you can leave at any time

Before saying I'm wrong, I want to know why my answer can't be right(I'm positive you'll classify it as wrong...)

 

[Prometheus]

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Sacrafice someone else? It doesn't say that the plant can't get out before 100 years.

@trb92
"If this is true"
Read the whole thing...

 

[Siyanor]

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Sacrafice someone else? It doesn't say that the plant can't get out before 100 years.

@trb92
"If this is true"
Read the whole thing...

How would you get the someone else out?

 

[trb92]

>"If this is true"
Damn, missed that part.

How about this answer?

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Find someone that has, very conviently, already been in there for the 100 years and you just happened to catch them and steal their plant on the way out?

 

[Siyanor]

>"If this is true"
Damn, missed that part.

How about this answer?

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Find someone that has, very conviently, already been in there for the 100 years and you just happened to catch them and steal their plant on the way out?

No, it's something he definitely can do. BTW, it's like a DBQ in AP History classes.. one piece of vital information is missing.

 

[trb92]

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Hmm..

However, the man's father told him that no one could leave the section of the garden that contained the plant until a hundred years after picking it

After picking, not after entering. Perhaps he just cut part of the plant, and didn't pick the entire thing. That wouldn't count, so he'd be able to leave? Maybe?

 

[Siyanor]

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Hmm..

After picking, not after entering. Perhaps he just cut part of the plant, and didn't pick the entire thing. That wouldn't count, so he'd be able to leave? Maybe?

Hmm, well, I suppose that would work, but that isn't the answer I was looking for. The answer is much simpler than that. And you aren't taking into account any missing information.

 

[Prometheus]

How is he contained? Invisible barrier?

 

[AgentPaper]

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Dig the plant out, instead of picking it (roots and all) and then bring that to his son. He didn't pick it, at least not until he got home, so it should work.

 

[Siyanor]

He does pick the entire plant, and there is no magical means by which he is contained within the area.

 

[Prometheus]

He does pick the entire plant, and there is no magical means by which he is contained within the area.

Been tried.

 

[Sevion]

Siyanor, how about

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Use one of those really long trimmers with huge handles? Cut a piece and sort of drag it along the floor with the trimmers until it's out of the place?

 

[Siyanor]

Been tried.

What has been tried..? I made the riddle I was giving you a hint.

Sevion, he does pick the flower WITH HIS HANDS while his entire body is within the region, and is able to go home (notice I didn't say he is able to leave).

 

[Sevion]

Hmm...

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He lives inside of the place with the plant

 

[Tharius]

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That's impossible.... it said "fifteen minutes from the man's house on foot" meaning that the garden is outside the man's house, and that he had to "return home", meaning that it's separate from his house. Therefore, the garden is neither an indoor garden in an extremely large house, or a giant garden adjacent to his house.

 

[Siyanor]

Ok.. hint..

Under what conditions would it be physically impossible to leave a place?

 

[Seb!]

Ok.. hint..

Under what conditions would it be physically impossible to leave a place?

None. If there is a reason that he can't leave, it should be specified, not just "he can't leave."