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A thread for puzzles and riddles.

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  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    Shouldn't matter, since the person could presumably pick any 5 cards they want, regardless of where they are in the deck.



    One of the more common tricks among stage magicians is getting the audience members to pick the cards they want them to. I believe one of the more common methods is through pushing the cards they want picked slightly more 'out' than the others.

  • BeeBee
    edited 2012-08-12 03:59:00

    It is wholly independent of what cards are picked.  That's a way of hedging your bets a little to work with easier ones most of the time, but any good trick will be able to deal with arbitrary cards, because you will have to eventually and you don't want to look like a tool when it happens.  That, or it's a situation where the specific card doesn't matter because you've rigged things even more elaborately (Svengali deck), but in this case there's no such tampering.

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    Yeah, I figured it wouldn't be. I just wanted to know because I had a theory that I since discarded. Then I responded to DYRE.

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    I should find my MindTrap cards...

  • BeeBee
    edited 2012-08-12 21:24:03

    Here is a breakdown of the card trick, for anyone interested.

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    So anybody going to post a riddle, or should I break out MindTrap?

  • BeeBee

    I'd have to abstain from answering since I probably remember most of those.

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    I found one NOT in my copy of MineTrap:


    What's behind the Green Glass Door?


    There are pillows but no feathers


    There are books but no paper


    There are spoons but no forks


    What else is behind the Green Glass Door, and why these objects are there?

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    stuff


    and because reasons

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    ^ Well, stuff WOULD be behind the Green Glass Door, but things wouldn't :P

  • DYREDYRE

    Words with doubled letters are behind the Green Glass Door.

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    ^ Yep. Your turn

  • TorizoLoverTorizoLover
    edited 2012-08-13 13:55:13

    Is it legal, er, okay to start a game that is based on a GSN game?


    IS there email notification on this site? Geesh! I hope so... otherwise, I'll have to find this post.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    You can click the star at the top of the thread page; that will bookmark the thread and updates to the thread will show up in your right side bar.

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star

    Hello? Anybody home?

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