Quiz Event: "Where is Mika?" Begin!

• Kueh wrote on 2012-02-26 03:08

  Quote from arklian;786893:

  ...What runes are safe?
  And how far can you walk?

  
  
  Oh yeah, the group can take steps the go for two tiles. Also, the rune that isn't shown is the safe one.
• Kueh wrote on 2012-02-27 02:36
  After making it across, the group finds a way out on the other side of a sewer drainway. Using pieces of scrap metal lying around, the group manages to form a crude and ineffective boat. Because the boat was made so quickly, and out of poor materials, it can only hold 125 pounds without sinking.
  
  Mika weighs 100 pounds, Trista weighs 75 pounds, and Mika’s friend weighs 50 pounds, and the box weighs 50 pounds.
  
  How can they share the boat to get across?
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  Hint 1: There are only a few possible passenger combinations with a weight limit like that. Think about how you can move the box, and how you can move Mika.
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  Hint 2: To move Mika, he needs to go alone. To move the box, it needs to be carried by Mika's friend.
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  Answer: Send the friend and the box, have him leave the box and come back. Trista and the friend cross, and Trista brings the boat back. Mika crosses alone, then the friend goes back for Trista and brings her across.
• Time wrote on 2012-02-27 04:54

  Quote from Kueh;787864:

  After making it across, the group finds a way out on the other side of a sewer drainway. Using pieces of scrap metal lying around, the group manages to form a crude and ineffective boat. Because the boat was made so quickly, and out of poor materials, it can only hold 125 pounds without sinking.
  
  Mika weighs 100 pounds, Trista weighs 75 pounds, and Mika’s friend and the box both weigh 50 pounds.
  
  How can they share the boat to get across?
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  This puzzle is worth: 30 points.
  This puzzle will end on the 28th
  Please submit your answers to Chockeh via Private message.

  
  
  I dont know if this would be too much info to give out...but clarification when you say they both weight 50 pounds, is that, they both individually weigh 50 or they both combined weigh 50?
  
  

  Quote from Kueh;786949:

  Oh yeah, the group can take steps the go for two tiles. Also, the rune that isn't shown is the safe one.

  
  is that the supposed to be a that, like, they can take steps that go for two tiles?
• Kueh wrote on 2012-02-27 04:59

  Quote from Time;787995:

  I dont know if this would be too much info to give out...but clarification when you say they both weight 50 pounds, is that, they both individually weigh 50 or they both combined weigh 50?

  
  
  I see how that would be confusing, orz. Together, they weigh 100 pounds. They each weigh 50. Yeah, he's a beast and just lugs around his own weight plus more, haha.
• Time wrote on 2012-02-27 05:07

  Quote from Kueh;787999:

  I see how that would be confusing, orz. Together, they weigh 100 pounds. They each weigh 50. Yeah, he's a beast and just lugs around his own weight plus more, haha.

  
  
  lol alright thank youuuuu
• Kueh wrote on 2012-02-28 03:31

  Quote from Time;787995:

  is that the supposed to be a that, like, they can take steps that go for two tiles?

  
  
  It isn't really something that needs to be said, if you think about the fact that they need to be able to take the safe path, and the safe path consists of spaces that span two tiles, but I'll clarify further.
  
  You don't need to worry about how large of a step the team needs to make. They can reach steps that go from one rune to another of the same type. Just find the safe path.
• Kueh wrote on 2012-02-28 03:33
  [S]Emerging from the collapsing rubble, the trio catch their breath and let the gravity of what just happened settle on their minds. After a few silent moments, Trista bursts into uncontrollable laughter.
  
  She comments as she reflects on everything that happened to her on her adventure, "It's finally over!"
  
  "Not quite," Mika responds, "there's still one thing left."
  
  Pulling out a key, he turns to the box. "One of these unlocks the treasure. If a wrong keyhole is used, the locks will jam and never open."
  
  "Just a moment," Mika's friend says as he examines the box. After a few minutes of close scrutiny, he puts the box down.
  
  Mika asks, "Well? Do you know the right keyhole?"
  
  "Yes," he responds.
  
  "Great! Which is it?"
  
  "Well...I don't actually know the right one. But! I do know that:
  
  -The correct one should be adjacent to more vertical keyholes than horizontal ones.
  -It should only be adjacent to one keyhole with a red outline (including itself.)
  -Is either left or right of a horizontal keyhole."
  
  

  [Image: http://puu.sh/iEx3]

  
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  Hint 1: Each statement restricts the possible answers. If you're having trouble finding the correct one, don't check every keyhole. Check only the ones not restricted by the previous statements.
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  Answer: The bottom most horizontal keyhole, with a blue ring.