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10-21-2005, 07:01 AM
Pendragon

Sorry to interrupt D-Man, I'll try to figure out your puzzles in a moment. My latest mystery is up at http://www.spaceports.com/~deshadow/tmsm/ today and will be there for a week. I return all of you to D-Man's ingenious riddles. ;)
10-21-2005, 07:09 AM
Kaltrina

Pendragon I am confused is that suppose to be our next mystery because there is a solution in the end... :confused:
10-21-2005, 08:34 AM
Pendragon

No,no. We're still on the D-Man's riddles! That is where I write my mysteries for, a site dedicated to pulp fiction hero The Shadow. Sorry, I didn't mean to confuse you! :blush: All of our stories on the site give the solution, the people who are used to the site know it's there, but try to solve before looking... :) I think... :p
10-21-2005, 09:50 AM
Kaltrina

oh ok...I guess I misunderstood... I already checked the site and it seems rather interesting.... ;) :D
10-21-2005, 03:04 PM
Pendragon

Quote:

Originally Posted by DigitalCrash

2) A kid lives inside a building with no flight of stairs
The kid goes inside the only elevator(Strange I know)
Looks at the buttons strangely and starts to ponder about something
either way he goes to the first floor
He goes outside buys some groceries
and when he returns he gets inside the elevator and presses button #14
The elevator goes up 1 floor, stops and opens
someone gets in, he presses to go 3 floors more
2 floors more someone enters and presses the button to go 5 floors more
1 floor more the first guy gets out and 2 come in to go 2 floors more
2 floors more the Two guys leaves and no one comes in
1 floor more a woman comes in and chooses to go 5 floors more
1 floor more the second guy leaves and another comes to go 5 floors more
The elevator goes 3 floors down instead opens and a guy enters to go 3 floors down
3 floors down the elevator opens the guy leaves another enters with a daughter and wants to go 7 floors more
2 floors more a guy with a puppet enters to go 6 floors more
1 floor more a guy with an iPod enters to go 6 floors more also
1 floor more a girl enters to go 1 more floor than the kid
3 floors more the guy with the daughter leaves and no one comes in
1 floor more the guy with the puppet leaves
1 floor more the guy with the iPod leaves
1 floor more the woman leaves and the kid realizes they both leave at the same floor
Then the kid asks the woman something about their floor
At what floor do they leave off at? At what floor does the remaining guy and girl leave off? What did the kid ponder/ask?

Well, they get off at the 14th floor, but the kid is wondering why, since it is actually the 13th. The remaining guy and girl shoul get off at the 9th, :lol: if I didn't completely loose track. Whew! What say, D-Man?http://www.websmileys.com/sm/sad/533.gif
10-21-2005, 03:23 PM
Anon22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pendragon

Well, they get off at the 14th floor, but the kid is wondering why, since it is actually the 13th.
Alright, Not exactly(close but not exactly), See... if you read the beginning of the riddle you'll realize that the kid ponders about this as soon as he gets on the elevator the first time and looks at the buttons. So he was already thinking about it before he got off. Also the kid actually managed to get to his destination without using the elevator(I'll add that to the riddle)... this will confuse you guys more so I'll simply say that he lives in the 13th floor
The remaining guy and girl shoul get off at the 9th, :lol: if I didn't completely loose track. Whew! What say, D-Man?
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Nope... lol, they do not get off at the 9th floor, yeah it is kind of hard to keep track of it.

I feel like making this riddle harder by adding a question, but nah... don't feel like it, it'd make it hard to keep track off(Question would be: At what floor did each character get off?) of course if you want to go right on ahead
10-21-2005, 05:07 PM
Pendragon

Quote:

Originally Posted by DigitalCrash

I feel like making this riddle harder by adding a question, but nah... don't feel like it, it'd make it hard to keep track off(Question would be: At what floor did each character get off?) of course if you want to go right on ahead

You want to make it harder? :eek2: :bawling: :lol: It confuses the daylight out of me now!

Wait. Wait. Looking at the buttons. He asked why the button for their floor said 14 when they lived on the 13th floor! And the man and girl get off on the 17th, I believe.

Might the third riddle refer to water? :brickwall
10-21-2005, 11:07 PM
Anon22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pendragon

You want to make it harder? :eek2: :bawling: :lol: It confuses the daylight out of me now!

Wait. Wait. Looking at the buttons. He asked why the button for their floor said 14 when they lived on the 13th floor!

Yeah, even though its more like why it skipped #13... I remember one time forget one hearing something about how some elevators didn't have the #13th because it was the "evil number" I think my dad told me that... lol... can't remember... maybe I should've verified it first, lol

And the man and girl get off on the 17th, I believe.

still incorrect
Might the third riddle refer to water?
the third riddle's already been answered... it was cereal, I'm sure your referring to the first. In that case no... it isn't water
:brickwall

lol, they're just riddles... nothing to get frustrated about. With a calm mind they're easier to solve.
10-22-2005, 07:59 AM
Pendragon

Quote:

Originally Posted by DigitalCrash

lol, they're just riddles... nothing to get frustrated about. With a calm mind they're easier to solve.

I know...I know...BTW, you don't say where you are located, but buildings not having a 13th floor is pretty common knowledge in the USA, at least to mystery readers it should be...I loose track all the time on which floor because I keep forgetting if the elevator moved up or down. When you say "to go 3 more floors" after saying it went down, I go down, which landed me once on the first floor, only I was supposed to go 3 more floors. At that point, I gave up, went back to a point I knew (where the woman and boy get off 14th but really 13th) and tried backtracking. Thought certain I had it this time 17th really 16th but.....OOOOOOOKKKKKK.... :smash:
10-22-2005, 12:46 PM
Anon22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pendragon

I know...I know...BTW, you don't say where you are located, but buildings not having a 13th floor is pretty common knowledge in the USA, at least to mystery readers it should be...I loose track all the time on which floor because I keep forgetting if the elevator moved up or down. When you say "to go 3 more floors" after saying it went down, I go down, which landed me once on the first floor, only I was supposed to go 3 more floors. At that point, I gave up, went back to a point I knew (where the woman and boy get off 14th but really 13th) and tried backtracking. Thought certain I had it this time 17th really 16th but.....OOOOOOOKKKKKK.... :smash:

It's not that hard to keep track off... There is unnecessary info you know. (Unless your going for the "hard" question I made a couple of posts ago)
10-23-2005, 08:58 AM
Pendragon

Looking the riddle over, the girl got off at the 15th really the 14th, (one more than the kid) and since you idicate the remaining man left with her, that was his destination as well. The kid asked the woman why the button for their floor said 14 when they lived on the 13th floor! :cool:
10-23-2005, 02:49 PM
Anon22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pendragon

Looking the riddle over, the girl got off at the 15th really the 14th, (one more than the kid) and since you idicate the remaining man left with her, that was his destination as well. The kid asked the woman why the button for their floor said 14 when they lived on the 13th floor! :cool:

Correct! The girl gets off 1 floor more than the kid... so the 15th floor, really the 14th. The man enters at the 9th floor and wanted to go up 5 more floors:

10, 11, 12, 14, 15

or

10, 11, 12, 13, 14

so he gets off at the 15th floor(really 14th) as well. The kid asks the woman why there was no 13th floor button or why there button was button #14. Congrats Pendragon! You earn a medal!

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1 riddle to go!
10-23-2005, 05:42 PM
Nightshade

Quote:

Descending from the skies
Rising from the ground
Looking from the sky
Living underground
this is what it's all about.
What is it?

is it some kind of insect??
10-23-2005, 07:45 PM
Pendragon

Quote:

Originally Posted by DigitalCrash

1)
Descending from the skies
Rising from the ground
Looking from the sky
Living underground
this is what it's all about.
What is it?

It may not be correct, but it's logical, in a way: :lol:

FIRE-- decends from the sky as meteorites--rises from the ground in volcanic eruptions--looks from the sky as The Sun--lives underground as the core of our planet. For what it's worth. :brow:
10-24-2005, 12:38 PM
Anon22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pendragon

It may not be correct, but it's logical, in a way: :lol:

FIRE-- decends from the sky as meteorites--rises from the ground in volcanic eruptions--looks from the sky as The Sun--lives underground as the core of our planet. For what it's worth. :brow:

Gee, I never really thought about fire... well... I would say it's correct... if it had been the answer... even though yeah... I guess it could be the answer. By look though... I mean literally looking... which is why fire really isn't the answer. Not an insect by the way

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