DM Michael
Paint Manipulator
Preparing for 'In the spider's web' part of LMOP
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Post by DM Michael on May 23, 2016 15:32:45 GMT
I found a riddle in a comic book. With a little tweaking it could be turned into a puzzle. It took me about 45 minutes to solve the puzzle, but I believe that if your party work together they can solve it faster. To speed up the process I used some ”type casting” E.G. Dwarves drink ale, Gnomes tinkers with stuff, Halfling like farming etc. If you want to make it harder you can go against the type.
The puzzle is as follows: The town of Kepleton is a strange place. There are 5 houses. All the houses have a different colour. One person lives in each house. They are all different races, they all have different professions, they all drink different liquids, and they each have a different monster in their basement. 1. The gnome lives in the red house. 2. The human has a dragon. 3. The person in the green house drinks milk. 4. The elf drinks wine. 5. The green house is just to the right of the white house. 6. The wizard has golem. 7. In the grey house lives a fighter. 8. The person in the middle house drinks moonshine. 9. The dwarf lives in the first house. 10. The ranger is a neighbour to the house with the Xorn. 11. The fighter is a neighbour to the house with the Treant 12. The cleric drinks water. 13. The halfling is a thief. 14. The dwarf is a neighbour to the blue house. 15. The person that drinks ale is a neighbour to the ranger. Where is the Bulette?
The Solutions is as follows: The houses from left to right are as follows: House 1, Grey, Dwarf, Fighter, Ale, Xorn House 2, Blue, Elf, Ranger, Wine, Treant House 3, Red, Gnome, Wizard, Moonshine, Golem House 4, White, Human, Cleric, Water, Dragon House 5, Green, Halfling, Thief, Milk, Bulette
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Post by onethatwas on May 23, 2016 16:58:43 GMT
Easier to solve if you have a board set out where they can move the objects around to fit the scenario. It actually almost solves itself at that point. It is when you have to do it in your head or on paper that it is really hard...less so on paper...
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Post by margaret on May 23, 2016 18:40:54 GMT
As with any riddle/puzzle, you need to know your players. I do this type of logic puzzle all the time and even have blank Excel forms with grids for puzzles with different numbers of elements on my computer because puzzle magazines don't always have space to provide a solving grid. So I could solve this pretty quickly, but others might find more laborious to get an answer. The biggest challenge for the DM might be how to fit this puzzle into the game. I do appreciate your posting it, though. I am going to solve it when I get to the destination I am leaving for shortly
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Post by skunkape on May 23, 2016 18:58:03 GMT
I agree, if you've got something available, a board for instance to move objects around, it becomes much easier. I used Excel to solve it, but I can see how a board would have made it much easier.
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Post by ironwolf on Jun 8, 2016 1:48:21 GMT
I could see this as part of an encounter with a sage, wizard or some sort of eclectic noble where the pc's have to solve the puzzle before getting the aid, item or help they need.
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