A pair of fat podlings man the booth. One bounces rhythmically behind the counter, rustling and waving at passersby. Anyone who wanders over to investigate is offered a pen-and-paper puzzle, a cup of tea (it is shockingly bitter), and a WonderHedron. The second podling simply scowls as it overlooks all the participants to make sure no one is caught cheating.
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Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2018 1:12 am
The Daily Puzzle
Once per day a different puzzle will be posted in thread. Participants should private message Green Minuet their answer with the appropriate subject line (Gaia only—Discord solutions will not be accepted). Do not post them in thread. For the same reason, please do not share your answers with other users in the spirit of fairness.
Several puzzles will require an image attachment, so please make sure you know how to screenshot, and have a site to temporarily host it (imgur, tinypic, google drive, tumblr, et cetera).
The first correct answer of the day will be guaranteed a ticket. A second ticket will raffled off among the remaining participants, right or wrong answer!
Role-play in the thread regarding puzzles is welcome, as long as the solution for the day's puzzle is not given away.
Day 1: The Riddle
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What has twelve faces and thirteen hearts, but can’t count to either?
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A deck of cards.
Day 2: The Pattern
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Day 3: The Search
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Day 4: Sudoku
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Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2018 1:57 am
The WonderHedron
Arranged across the booth's countertop is a set of multi-coloured, multi-faced combination puzzles. They're intimidating to say the least, with over a hundred sides, although Kerras is quick to reassure anyone who looks too anxious. They explain that these puzzles are no more challenging than a Magic Cube (hard to believe), only in the shape of a stellated truncated hexahedron (the name is even worse), but you can call it a WonderHedron (there's nothing wonderful about it)!
The goal of the puzzle is simple (in words alone at least): match all the colours on each of faces. Users thankfully have an easier time of it. Each day you roll any number of 10 sided dice and add up the results. Your goal is to roll as close to 50 as possible. If you roll over 50, you've made a horrible mistake in solving the puzzle, and you must start over. You may continue rolling, however you must include your previous rolls in your total dice rolled for the day. If you decide to continue, you start at 0.
The user who gets the closest to 50 (without going over) with the least amount of dice will be awarded a ticket. Please use the form below, and include at least two sentences of role-play in per post to apply for the ticket. In the spirit of fairness, only one form per user per day.
[quote="Green Minuet"][size=14][b]It's a Wonder I Survived![/b][/size]
[b]Final Result:[/b] the total from all your dice (excluding failed solutions) [b]Total Dice:[/b] all the dice you used today[/quote]
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2018 2:00 am
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[ In case Green gets his s**t together and makes prizes. ]
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Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2018 2:03 am
Day 1: The Riddle
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What has twelve faces and thirteen hearts, but can’t count to either?
Please PM Green Minuet your answer with "The Riddle" in the subject line.
Selune Miadaz Dice; 5 Points; 23 Selune smiled as she viewed Kerras. "Kerras!!" the winged troll exclaimed as she fluttered over. "Puzzles?" She asked the tealblood as she looked things over. "Very fitting." The greenblood giggled. She read over the Riddle and frowned. "Can i get a hint?" She asked hopefully. She knew Kerras would say no, so she went to scrawling an answer on a piece of paper before folding it, and passing it over.
Engrav stared at the hedron for a moment, trying to mentally model how to solve the corners. It was... not easy. He spun a couple of the faces carefully, observing the facing on each edge. Ok. Not much more difficult than a normal puzzle cube, if significantly more tedious. He could do this.
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2018 12:20 pm
Engrav Setlar
The inventor took a second after thinking through a few moves, and just looked to see if he could solve a side. There. That looked just about right.
Selune Miadaz Dice; 8 Points; 47 Selune looked at her points and frowned. It was risky. Really risky. At 47 points... The greenblood really wanted to get a 50 even, but, it was too risky! "Okay..." The greenblood said hesitantly. "I guess this will have to do..." She showed the tealblood her results and gave Kerras a shy grin. Hopefully that was worth something.
Dillys had surprised his twin by visiting home for bloodfest. He missed her more than anything and it was good to be home. Wondering through the booths, he saw a riddle event and entered in his answer. He then saw the cube thing and tried his hand at solving it.
Wow, he was really bad at this puzzle solving. The redblood had really thought that he would do much better than this. He wondered how the other trolls did or if it was just him that did bad. He sighed with a lack of confidence, how the hell did this thing work!
Frustrated, Dillys set down the object. He felt like everyone else was doing better! Sighing and taking another breath, he chuckled. Why was he getting so upset over a puzzle! He picked up the cube and tried again.
Dillys kept working on solving it, focusing the best he could. Who cares how everyone else did? He just wanted to have fun. With a final movement, all the colors seemed to move into place. His face brightened up, realizing that he completed it! "Hey! I did it!" He called out, setting the object down and grinning widely. This would definitely be something he tells Connie when he sees her!
"Never seen a puzzle quite like this." Garand's eyes narrowed thoughtfully as he considered it, trying to form at least somewhat of a plan of action before tackling the task of finding the solution.
