Best...Puzzle...Ever....
- Thread starter RithTheAwakener
- Start date
PugioilAudacio
First Post
I love these kind of riddles/puzzles, however I don't have time to read through all 15 pages of the thread. Could someone post the riddles that have not been answered yet? I would love to have a go at them (have a go? isn't that some british type phrase? "I'll have a go then shall I?").
-Thanks,
Pugio
-Thanks,
Pugio
PugioilAudacio
First Post
Well, put that way it's pretty obvious
Argh, I don't know how to do that black background text thingy.
Argh, I don't know how to do that black background text thingy.
PugioilAudacio
First Post
Yup! Or, more or less. We did a bunch of these in another thread (called "A riddle for ye"). I've always like large, elaborate puzzles that combine many different elements. To make them more fun, I sometimes go out of game for some of them. For instance, something I've been working on:
The PC's will certain magical word to open the gate/portal etc. to the place where they need to go. To get this word they need to decipher an ancient language/code on a wall. First, they need to translate the language into english/common. The way they do this is by consulting a map of the dungeon that they've picked up. The map labels rooms by A,B,C,1,2,3 etc. On each door (or located in each room) is a symbol corresponding to the label on the map. Using these, they can piece together the foreign alphabet.
They then need to figure out what the letters mean. Now I don't have my notes in front of me, but I think the way I was going to do it is something like this.
--------------------------------------------------
ASCII
72 68 46 47 71 68 46
84 78 67 68 82 69 72
84 65 79 78 65 67 84
80 50 77 65 77 79 77
__ 90 __ 45 47 68 76
__ __ __ 79 __ 69
__ __ __ 45
CCGCTTGGACGTGCGGAAGTAGATTAAGTC
--------------------------------------------------
I'll probably tweak it a LOT, but this was just something like what I have in mind. I'm going to add a few more puzzle elements, as this part is mostly just decoding at this point. Yes there are a few issues with going "out" of the game, but my players don't role-play or stay in-character that much anyway (unfortunately).
The PC's will certain magical word to open the gate/portal etc. to the place where they need to go. To get this word they need to decipher an ancient language/code on a wall. First, they need to translate the language into english/common. The way they do this is by consulting a map of the dungeon that they've picked up. The map labels rooms by A,B,C,1,2,3 etc. On each door (or located in each room) is a symbol corresponding to the label on the map. Using these, they can piece together the foreign alphabet.
They then need to figure out what the letters mean. Now I don't have my notes in front of me, but I think the way I was going to do it is something like this.
--------------------------------------------------
ASCII
72 68 46 47 71 68 46
84 78 67 68 82 69 72
84 65 79 78 65 67 84
80 50 77 65 77 79 77
__ 90 __ 45 47 68 76
__ __ __ 79 __ 69
__ __ __ 45
CCGCTTGGACGTGCGGAAGTAGATTAAGTC
--------------------------------------------------
I'll probably tweak it a LOT, but this was just something like what I have in mind. I'm going to add a few more puzzle elements, as this part is mostly just decoding at this point. Yes there are a few issues with going "out" of the game, but my players don't role-play or stay in-character that much anyway (unfortunately).
3catcircus
Adventurer
Don't Know if *this* one was already mentioned
But here goes. This is a *physical* puzzle - which works really well in a D&D game. The party passes a closet full of with two 9 foot long wooden boards, a handful of nails, and 50 feet of rope. They then enter a roughly square room which is cut by an 'L' shaped pit, 10 foot in width, filled with your favorite nastyness - lava, acid, green slime, whatever. They can try all kinds of things to get across, but the room is also cut by an 'L' shaped wall of force that prevents people from jumping across, flying across, swinging across on rope, etc. Oh yeah, the room also has an anti-magic on *this* side of the room and the *other* side of the room - so no dimension door, passwall, etc. will work. They can hammer the boards together or rope them together or do anything they want - *nothing* works *except* making the boards form a 'T' across the corner of the 'L' - this is an old math problem that was adapted for use in a home-brew adventure titled "Eight Eyes of the Spider" that was run at Goldcon in (1988?) in Ft. Lauderdale. I ran across it as a player - although my character quickly turned into a cinder by a river of lava, it was still an interesting enough adaptation of a math puzzle that I still remember it all these years later.
But here goes. This is a *physical* puzzle - which works really well in a D&D game. The party passes a closet full of with two 9 foot long wooden boards, a handful of nails, and 50 feet of rope. They then enter a roughly square room which is cut by an 'L' shaped pit, 10 foot in width, filled with your favorite nastyness - lava, acid, green slime, whatever. They can try all kinds of things to get across, but the room is also cut by an 'L' shaped wall of force that prevents people from jumping across, flying across, swinging across on rope, etc. Oh yeah, the room also has an anti-magic on *this* side of the room and the *other* side of the room - so no dimension door, passwall, etc. will work. They can hammer the boards together or rope them together or do anything they want - *nothing* works *except* making the boards form a 'T' across the corner of the 'L' - this is an old math problem that was adapted for use in a home-brew adventure titled "Eight Eyes of the Spider" that was run at Goldcon in (1988?) in Ft. Lauderdale. I ran across it as a player - although my character quickly turned into a cinder by a river of lava, it was still an interesting enough adaptation of a math puzzle that I still remember it all these years later.
Similar Threads
