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Slay Level: 25 Posts: 32/339 EXP: 85592 For next: 4028 Since: 04-28-05 From: Threshold Between Heaven and Hell Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 1 day |
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| Here's a new riddle. I was the one who thought it up -- but even I couldn't figure it out at first. I enjoy thinking up riddles and working out the solution. I've made sure to include enough clauses to ensure that there's only one solution. Here's the setup. You come to a locked door that you need to pass. There's absolutely no way to bypass the door other than by placing a small jewel into the eye of an engraving on it's surface. If you place the jewel in the holder, the door will open. The jewel is in sight, and within reach. You're looking right at it. It's in the bottom of a glass fish tank. The problem is that the tank is filled with voracious piranhas. You have to retrieve the jewel, but you can NOT immerse your hand in the water, nor can you put anything else in the water, because the piranhas will devour and/or destroy it. You cannot breach the glass in any way; you cannot break it or drill a tiny hole in it, and the tank is absolutely immovable. So to recap; you cannot put anything in the tank, you cannot break the tank and you cannot move the tank. And since this is a precious jewel, it isn't magnetic, so that possibility is a no-go. Assume that this predicament is taking place in modern day and that, within reason, any object you might need to retrieve the jewel is available to you. How do you get the jewel? |
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Acmlm Torosu heh Level: 51  Posts: 1099/1173 EXP: 981994 For next: 31944 Since: 03-15-04 From: Somewhere that isn't outside of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada Since last post: 39 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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Boil the water (from warming the glass just enough) until it evaporates completely, wait for the piranhas to die (with the water gone), then take the jewel?  Or would the jewel risk melting down?  |
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Slay Level: 25 Posts: 34/339 EXP: 85592 For next: 4028 Since: 04-28-05 From: Threshold Between Heaven and Hell Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 1 day |
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| . . . Hmm. I didn't think it was that obvious. I guess I should leave the riddle-making to the professionals. |
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NSNick Laidback Admin Level: 85  Posts: 2200/3875 EXP: 5895841 For next: 2699 Since: 03-15-04 From: North Side School: OSU Since last post: 9 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| No, if you enjoy making riddles, by all means go for it. |
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Graviteh Level: 31 Posts: 235/500 EXP: 165989 For next: 19374 Since: 03-27-05 From: The Internet Since last post: 42 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| well, I would poison the pirhanas. | |||
SpiderMew Rat Level: 14  Posts: 21/97 EXP: 12477 For next: 594 Since: 05-15-05 From: Another Dimension Since last post: 130 days Last activity: 130 days |
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| Theres always the harder to do if its heavy, attempt to spill out the water by knocking over the fishtank.. and wate for the fish to die to get the jewel | |||
MathOnNapkins Math n' Hacks Level: 67  Posts: 1849/2189 EXP: 2495887 For next: 96985 Since: 03-18-04 From: Base Tourian Since last post: 1 hour Last activity: 32 min. |
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Originally posted by Graviteh That doesn't help, b/c you'd still have to put your hand in the tank (you can't touch the water). If I had to do it, I would vacuum the water out slowly, without putting the vacuum end in the tank. Once I had all the water out the pirahna would die. Also the vacuum would have a metal tip so the pirahna couldn't jump up and destroy it. |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82  Posts: 2304/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Nope, nope, Slay's got you there. You can't put anything in the tank. Which means electrolysis is out, too....  |
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NSNick Laidback Admin Level: 85 Posts: 2278/3875 EXP: 5895841 For next: 2699 Since: 03-15-04 From: North Side School: OSU Since last post: 9 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Not if you step up the voltage enough and arc it into the tank... | |||
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||bass Programmer Admin Level: 44  Posts: 402/817 EXP: 570813 For next: 40472 Since: 03-15-04 From: Salem, Connecticut Since last post: 26 days Last activity: 11 days |
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| Two words.... Gamma rays.... |
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SpiderMew Rat Level: 14 Posts: 57/97 EXP: 12477 For next: 594 Since: 05-15-05 From: Another Dimension Since last post: 130 days Last activity: 130 days |
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Originally posted by ||bass yeah great idea.. untill you nuke yourself.. and even if you had a led suit... you would still kill everything in the area.. and how in a life or death situation are you gonna get gama rays o0? And if you had a gamma ray gun... could you use that the fry the door... and theres always the small chance that your in a comic book universe and you "hulk out" the fish... and that would be bad... |
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MathOnNapkins Math n' Hacks Level: 67 Posts: 1933/2189 EXP: 2495887 For next: 96985 Since: 03-18-04 From: Base Tourian Since last post: 1 hour Last activity: 32 min. |
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| Alternatively, destroy the planet your are on from space, and watch as gravity goes bye bye and the water and dead fish float out of the tank. Then use sensors to locate said jewel. Though we assume the tank is immovable, we do not assume everything around it is not. |
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