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Puzzle three - Cynical Ninja - 04-19-2011
The king is at deaths door but he has no heir, so he invents a test to find the new king. He puts a 100 carat ruby in a gold chalice in the middle of a 20 foot by 20 foot tapestry. The next king must grasp the ruby from the chalice with his bare hand without suspending from the ceiling or stepping on the tapestry. Three days pass and nobleman after nobleman fails to grasp the ruby. Then one day the dying king is shocked to witness a small boy grasp the ruby from the chalice without so much as his shadow gracing the tapestry. The new king is chosen, how did he do it?
n.b - the boy doesn't have wings, or magic powers and I'm pretty sure he isn't a pussy cowboy.
RE: Puzzle three - username - 04-19-2011
He rode his tricycle out and grabbed it. Or he rolled up the tapestry to the point of the chalice and picked it up then.
I always look for the loopholes in the language first.
RE: Puzzle three - Cynical Ninja - 04-19-2011
No he hasn't got a bike, or a hang glider or anything like that.
All he has got is himself and he is a completely normal little boy, he has no tools or implements of any kind whatsoever.
This is a logic puzzle and it is in no way a trick question.
RE: Puzzle three - thekid65 - 04-19-2011
Maybe I'm missing something...did he just roll up the tapestry like username said? You said nothing about them not being able to touch the tapestry with his hands.
RE: Puzzle three - Fibonacci Prima - 04-19-2011
He untied the rope holding the tapestry, lowered it to the level that he could reach the ruby.
RE: Puzzle three - Cynical Ninja - 04-19-2011
(04-19-2011, 04:48 PM)Fibonacci Prima Wrote: He untied the rope holding the tapestry, lowered it to the level that he could reach the ruby.
The tapestry is lying flat on the floor.
RE: Puzzle three - thekid65 - 04-19-2011
I was assuming from the way the puzzle was written that the tapestry was placed on the floor. "
puzzleboy Wrote:or stepping on the tapestry
RE: Puzzle three - Fibonacci Prima - 04-19-2011
He walked on his hands?
(sorry...read quickly as i was doing 20 other things.)
RE: Puzzle three - Lady Cop - 04-19-2011
did he use a long stick-tool-type thingy to snare it?
i hate you OP.
RE: Puzzle three - Fibonacci Prima - 04-19-2011
Oooh! What about....did his dad carry him? Because it's dad who is touching the tapestry, not the boy.
RE: Puzzle three - Lady Cop - 04-21-2011
get back in here OP!
