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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 1800257" data-attributes="member: 5122">Since there are 36 evenly-spaced statues, the thing that immediately springs to mind for me is a puzzle or riddle based on geometry, geography, or time (or, even better, all three).&nbsp; Each statue is 10 degrees from the next, see, and degrees are used in geometry, geography, and time (a degree is 60 minutes, for those who might not know).So, and this is completely off the cuff and too simple, but could be polished up ... Somehow they need to gain knowledge as to which which statue is the &quot;starting point.&quot;&nbsp; (It could be a statue that effective says, &quot;Start here.&quot;)That statue might have an inscription that reads, &quot;I sit at my lady love's right hand, one leg of an equal triumvirate.&quot;&nbsp; Meaning, &quot;count 6 statues (60 degrees, 1/3 of an equilateral triangle) to this statue's left (he sits to her right hand).&quot;Then that statues would have a clue:&nbsp; &quot;It took me 3 days less 2 hours, but I finally made the correct decision.&quot;&nbsp; That's 70 hours, which is 70 degrees, which is 7 statues.&nbsp; The correct decision is the &quot;right&quot; decision ... so count 7 statues to the right ... hey, I know it's a stretch, but given time you could make a great puzzle of this.Each statue would be used once and only once.&nbsp; The final statue would be the correct one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeff Wilder, post: 1800257, member: 5122"] Since there are 36 evenly-spaced statues, the thing that immediately springs to mind for me is a puzzle or riddle based on geometry, geography, or time (or, even better, all three). Each statue is 10 degrees from the next, see, and degrees are used in geometry, geography, and time (a degree is 60 minutes, for those who might not know). So, and this is completely off the cuff and too simple, but could be polished up ... Somehow they need to gain knowledge as to which which statue is the "starting point." (It could be a statue that effective says, "Start here.") That statue might have an inscription that reads, "I sit at my lady love's right hand, one leg of an equal triumvirate." Meaning, "count 6 statues (60 degrees, 1/3 of an equilateral triangle) to this statue's left (he sits to her right hand)." Then [i]that[/i] statues would have a clue: "It took me 3 days less 2 hours, but I finally made the correct decision." That's 70 hours, which is 70 degrees, which is 7 statues. The correct decision is the "right" decision ... so count 7 statues to the right ... hey, I know it's a stretch, but given time you could make a great puzzle of this. Each statue would be used once and only once. The final statue would be the correct one. [/QUOTE]

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