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alien
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You are in topnotch health on an island from which you want to leave. There is nothing on the island, no objects or living forms, except for the life rocket in working order right beside you. Suddenly, you see the ship passing in distance that you eagerly want to board. Then you look at the life rocket with strong desire to use it to get the attention of the ship, but despair overwhelms you and you do nothing. Why??
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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Re: Island
« Reply #1 on: Apr 29th, 2006, 7:52am » |
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By "life rocket" do you mean a flare gun?
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alien
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Yes, loaded flare gun is a better choice..
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Re: Island
« Reply #3 on: Apr 29th, 2006, 10:17am » |
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Then the only solution that I can think of is:
| hidden: | | Since you can see the boat, it is likely during the day. You think to yourself, a flare gun used during the night would be much more noticable than one used in the day. |
If it's not that, I'll just keep thinking.
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Re: Island
« Reply #4 on: Apr 29th, 2006, 10:41am » |
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Is it
Or | hidden: | | Any ship where the passengers may cause some kind of harm to you? |
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on Apr 29th, 2006, 10:41am, Bamaboys wrote:Is it
Or | hidden: | | Any ship where the passengers may cause some kind of harm to you? |
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No. It is a friendly ship.
on Apr 29th, 2006, 10:17am, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:Then the only solution that I can think of is:
| hidden: | | Since you can see the boat, it is likely during the day. You think to yourself, a flare gun used during the night would be much more noticable than one used in the day. |
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Nice try, but it is, actually, pretty dark so no.
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Re: Island
« Reply #6 on: Apr 30th, 2006, 1:16am » |
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I guess it depends on whether it's a rocket or a flare gun - if it was a rocket, then you have no means of lighting it and it wont go off.
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alien
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just disregard life rocket and replace it with a flare gun, as I am not familiar with the mechanism of life rocket..
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Re: Island
« Reply #8 on: May 2nd, 2006, 9:01am » |
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It says "for crew use only".
And I just ate the last crew member yesterday.
(Well, initially the logic was that I can not use the flare since I am not a crew member, but now that I think of it, it also makes sense that I can not get the attention of the boat before hiding all evidence of my killing of the crew.)
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Nice try, but there is nothing else on the island except for the fore mentioned flare gun, so this, actually, excludes corpses also. And let us say that you are naked just to remove possibilities like, say, strangling them with your belt
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Re: Island
« Reply #10 on: May 2nd, 2006, 2:58pm » |
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My idea is that the ship cannot pick you up for some reason, such as your island being surrounded by some very nasty reefs that not even a raft can get through. The problem with this is that there is no reason not to at least let the ship know of your presence, so that they can radio for a helicopter or other means of rescue.
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Re: Island
« Reply #11 on: May 2nd, 2006, 9:00pm » |
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Whoops. Have a good idea. What if...
| hidden: | | You can see the name of that boat from the island. When you look at the flare gun, you realize that the name of the boat is also printed on the flare gun, meaning that this boat is either the one you were initially on, or another boat that is adrift. |
Seems possible to me. Especially since the despair seems to stem directly from looking at the flare gun.
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alien
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Not bad, not bad at all, but I said that you see the ship in distance, so even if it were not dark, heh, the distance is such so you could not make out its name 
no nasty reefs either..
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Re: Island
« Reply #13 on: May 3rd, 2006, 8:49pm » |
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Could it be that
You don't know how to use the flare gun ?
The riddle said you're healthy, it says nothing bout your iq level..
On the other hand, if there is nothing on the island, except for the flare gun, and your naked self, how did you get there in the first place ? And what do you eat ?
Dang, sure hope you didn't eat the flare gun.. 
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Re: Island
« Reply #14 on: May 4th, 2006, 6:26am » |
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Would the date by any chance be a significant clue?
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on May 3rd, 2006, 8:49pm, JiNbOtAk wrote:Could it be that
You don't know how to use the flare gun ?
The riddle said you're healthy, it says nothing bout your iq level.. |
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I sure hope you are not THAT stupid 
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On the other hand, if there is nothing on the island, except for the flare gun, and your naked self, how did you get there in the first place ? |
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this is a good question..
on May 4th, 2006, 6:26am, Astrix wrote:| Would the date by any chance be a significant clue? |
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No. I dont thinks so.
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Re: Island
« Reply #16 on: May 5th, 2006, 12:51pm » |
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I figured it might be the fourth of July or Guy Fawkes Day or Cinco de Mayo...and the boaters would just assume the flare was holiday fireworks.
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alien
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Not bad, but the date is of no importance.
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Re: Island
« Reply #18 on: May 5th, 2006, 5:00pm » |
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Ok so this is an island on the ocean right, the type of island you'd think of when you say "island"?
Ohhh wait hang on I know
You're the captain of the ship and the crew just mutineed, putting you down on the island with only a life rocket so they're unlikely to turn around and rescue you if you set it off
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Re: Island
« Reply #19 on: May 5th, 2006, 5:02pm » |
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Pirates left him buried up to his neck in the sand with the flare gun next to him to taunt him?
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on May 5th, 2006, 5:02pm, ChunkTug wrote:| Pirates left him buried up to his neck in the sand with the flare gun next to him to taunt him? |
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Yes. They recently buried him like this and left.
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Re: Island
« Reply #21 on: May 5th, 2006, 6:30pm » |
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Damn, I was sure I had it 
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alien
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graphia your answer is real good, but why would they not leave you any food if they give you a chance with the flare gun to survive and leave this island? Unless they do not have food or they do not give a damn. If there is a mutiny, it is unlikely that all will be against you, since you must have at least some supporters that did not get killed in the mutiny, especially of higher authority.
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Re: Island
« Reply #23 on: May 5th, 2006, 10:18pm » |
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Okay, rebuttal 
I figured that it wouldn't be that uncommon to leave someone stranded with nothing on a desert island with a flare to get help, especially if it was a shipping lane. One would assume that if you're going to throw someone off your ship you wouldn't be too worried about their survival. Besides, it fits with the image of pirates that I know, where people would just get stranded if they were unpopular enough.
It wouldn't surprise me that the captain was the only one left if it was his immediate underlings that organised things - anyone much lower than them would be more likely to go along with the scheme, especially if they were threatened to keep quiet. Or perhaps they were just locked up or whatever and the captain was left behind because he was the figurehead. Of course, it could have just been a stowaway or someone who's broken the rules, the captain was just a poetic example.
As for "suddenly", I just thought that was a figure of speech to say you'd spotted the ship. On the other hand, because of currents or rocks and whatnot they may have needed to head out beyond sight and then double back around the island so you see them again.
And I'm sure the captain would love to be back on *his* ship, even though he might not be too keen on the company All in all I thought my answer was quite reasonable
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You know, I just realized crap I said before, so I quickly deleted it.  The riddle does leave room for other possibilities, your answer especially graphia, as I cannot say with confidence that my answer is the only plausible answer. But even so, ChunkTug's answer seams like the winner to me. What say you?
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