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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Romnipotent" data-source="post: 2228689" data-attributes="member: 23770">Just got an email from the DM, and he sounds like a great person. SO no more hating on the DM for making a difficult puzzle. Theres reasons for it existing, and also clues around the room they didn't pick up.As far as I recall roman said the treasure was an illusion but that was it... Didn't look into the imaginary pile...Below is the email I received, as the DM isn't a registered user my email address gave him something to use for contacting us.[sblock]Hey,Sorry.  I'm the bad DM.  Don't have membership on theforum and your email was handy when I scanned throughthe forum.I had no idea that I had so many people up in arms!  Ithough Roman was joking about the 10,000 posts. Really who cares about my homebrew campaign with 7-10players?Anyways, I feel really bad about the whole thing.  Ireally thought that my players could solve it.  Theyhave solved everything with ease before.  I was reallydisappointed because I felt they didn't really spendany time on solving it or searching for clues.  Iguess I just though they were tired of my campaign. It had been a year after all and others wanted to runstuff.They first came upon the riddle at the end of asession.  Yeah they looked at it but it wasn't forhours or 'a whole session'... maybe 15-20 minutes. And they were tired at the end of the game becausethere had been TONS of combat.  So I called it there and said we'd give it a shot nextweek.  I asked another player if he would be willingto run something, just in case.Next week rolled around and some (like Roman) lookedat the puzzle but most just rolled characters for thenext  campaign.  So I rolled too, 'cause it lookedlike the majority were tired of my campaign.We had a lot of fun over the year and I wasdisappointed, especially since I had so much moreplanned, but it seemed to be what people wanted.<shrug>As for the riddle, I made it myself.  And, yeah, itwas too hard.  My mistake.  But there were other waysaround it in the pile of treasure if they had lookedin it.  Both clues and magic to pass the door.  I wasagain disappointed when they didn't check.  I guess Iwarned them too much about how hard the temple was andthey had given up.The answer:How to explain...  There are 3 'areas' of each shape. If you count the number of shapes in the area you willfind that one is all even (10,20,30?), one allodd(15,21,33?), and one all prime(17,29,?).Ok, in hindsight it is almost impossible without theclue, but I really do have multiple math geniuses inmy playing group and I thought they would get it.  Orat least search for more information!  (As for the badgrammar, it's my fault.  I only have so much time toplan each week and I was in a rush.)For the blanks, there is a section of two which Ihoped would be prime (but would have accepted even ina pinch) and then a section of eight for even and asection of 25? for odd.  Shrug, my bad.Bad DM?  Probably.  But (i think) we had a ton of funover the year for the most part.  And really I wasdisappointed with their efforts at the end.As for using the puzzle again... I was going to.  Notin this form but make it much smaller and try justevens and odds.In the end, I'm really sorry that I used this puzzleat a time when they felt like there was no otheroptions.  But that's what happened and then didn'ttake any of the other options out.  What am I supposeto do?  Keep the majority in a campaign they don'twant to be in?Feel free to post the email or just the solution inthe forum.Thanks to all those that tried not to leap toconclusions.Sorry for the bad grammar, but it's late and I don'treally care. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Best of luck in your games.PS: If you have Roman's email can you give this tohim?  Otherwise I'll give him the answer next time Isee him.[/sblock]Well... its over! I said I'd get the answer! now, what on earth does it mean  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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