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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GSHamster" data-source="post: 2817459" data-attributes="member: 20187">Oddly, I'd have to class this puzzle as simpler than you expected.  It's just a variant on "Speak, friend, and enter" from Lord of the Rings.The critical part you missed was looking up Wrath and Justice in the Bible.  Instead you went for unrelated physical characteristics of the book itself.  Expecting a player to look up Wrath and Justice (maybe finding an iconic verse about either) is not out of line in the slightest.This is the other edge of the roll vs. role-playing debate.  If you chose to let your character stats decide, you roll an int check and your character solves it.  Or you can role-play it, but if you're not clever enough to see the answer, your character dies.Edit: As well, since you're looking for time, which is "Hour:minute", that matches up really well with the "chapter:verse" structure, which is another clue.  Quite honestly, if this was a real puzzle, there should be no Bible as the makers of the trap would be able to call up the iconic verses from memory. Seriously, if this was a trap in, say, the Vatican, I think the makers would expect that anyone worthy of solving the puzzle should be able to do it from memory.  Though, the circumstances of the puzzle being forced on you warrant giving you the Bible.  If the trap was an encountered trap in an old church or something, I wouldn't expect the character to have a Bible (though I'd give one to the player as an aid).</blockquote>

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