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Roy42
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Escape artist
« on: Jul 8th, 2006, 10:01pm » |
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A prison in the middle of a large lake wakes one morning to find that a prisoner has escaped leaving a broken shoelace as evidence. The prisoner could not swim and it was about a mile back to shore. How has he done it?
P.S since i am a newbie, sorry if my puzzles are really easy or if they've been posted by another already 
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Re: Escape artist
« Reply #1 on: Jul 9th, 2006, 4:37am » |
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I won't be online untill about 14 July, im going on another camp and will hopefully get some new puzzles to post bye!    
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Re: Escape artist
« Reply #2 on: Jul 10th, 2006, 12:51am » |
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It might have been a really shallow lake.. Of course that totally disregards the shoelace.
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It was winter and the lake was frozen. You mentioned the 'broken' shoelace, and
I think you can snap a shoelace like a twig if it is frozen enough. But why would anyone want do that?
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Re: Escape artist
« Reply #6 on: Jul 11th, 2006, 7:09pm » |
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well, alien, i think you're right, but maybe he broke his shoelace because he wanted to let the people know he was gone. Afterall, he is an escape ARTIST, and the definition of an escape artist is "a performer who entertains by escaping from confinement" so i guess the shoelace was kindof like his trademark
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Re: Escape artist
« Reply #7 on: Jul 11th, 2006, 11:51pm » |
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I like the idea of the lake being frozen.
The broken shoelace could be left from when he was putting on his ice skates (don't worry about how he got them), and had to put his old laces into them.
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Re: Escape artist
« Reply #8 on: Jul 12th, 2006, 1:01am » |
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The frozen lake thing is better than my idea but I first thought; wouldn't the prison have bridges or boats docked for transport of food and stuff? As for the shoelace, i disreguarded it completely. (sorry!)
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Re: Escape artist
« Reply #9 on: Jul 13th, 2006, 2:18am » |
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My answer agrees with alien; he skated off to his freedom on ice skates, one of which had a broken shoelace from the cold he skated off to his freedom on ice skates, one of which had a broken shoelace from the cold he skated off to his freedom on ice skates, one of which had a broken shoelace from the cold he skated off to his freedom on ice skates, one of which had a broken shoelace from the cold he skated off to his freedom on ice skates, one of which had a broken shoelace from the cold he skated off to his freedom on ice skates, one of which had a broken shoelace from the cold he skated off to his freedom on ice skates, one of which had a broken shoelace from the cold he skated off to his freedom on ice skates, one of which had a broken shoelace from the cold he skated off to his freedom on ice skates, one of which had a broken shoelace from the cold he skated off to his freedom on ice skates, one of which had a broken shoelace from the cold he skated off to his freedom on ice skates, one of which had a broken shoelace from the cold he skated off to his freedom on ice skates, one of which had a broken shoelace from the cold he skated off to his freedom on ice skates, one of which had a broken shoelace from the cold he skated off to his freedom on ice skates, one of which had a broken shoelace from the cold
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Re: Escape artist
« Reply #10 on: Jul 13th, 2006, 4:48am » |
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I would say the broken shoelace is there only as a hint that he changed shoes. I don't think a shoelace can break from the cold when it is reasonably cold.
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Re: Escape artist
« Reply #11 on: Jul 13th, 2006, 5:09am » |
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Yeah, but what, it's just gonna break spontaniously for the purpose of this riddle? 
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Re: Escape artist
« Reply #12 on: Jul 13th, 2006, 6:12am » |
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Perhaps heskated ova the shoe lace and cut it.
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Re: Escape artist
« Reply #13 on: Jul 13th, 2006, 6:15am » |
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The whole prison is there only for the purpose of the riddle. IMHO. 
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Believe it or not, this is my first riddle that I almost solved (ice skates, damn!) But then again, after poison and fixture riddle, I have ice on my mind all the time. From now on you can call me................ Iceman.
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Re: Escape artist
« Reply #15 on: Jul 13th, 2006, 1:31pm » |
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Only if you call me Maverick.
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Done! From now on, I call you Maverick. And don't you call me alien either. Call me...........Iceman.
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Re: Escape artist
« Reply #17 on: Jul 13th, 2006, 2:09pm » |
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Yeah, like the Drivers and pedestrians puzzle, the guy is only gay because the puzzle demands it.
So now i shall call you iceman.... yeah, iceman, okayiceman, iceman, iceman, iceman, iceman, iceman, iceman, iceman, iceman, annoying isn't it iceman  okay, i think i'm done (puff...puff)
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Re: Escape artist
« Reply #18 on: Jul 14th, 2006, 2:12am » |
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on Jul 13th, 2006, 7:20am, alien wrote:| From now on you can call me................ Iceman. |
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Shouldn't it be Icealien?
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I played with puff-puff toy when I was a kid. I still do. 
Not a bad point Grimbal, but water is associated more to humans, since our bodies consist of significantly less water. Also, aliens are green humanoid specie, rather similar to humans, so instinctively you could call as "men" and "women", even though most of us are bisexuals. The rest of us are born as males or females. But the main reason is of esthetic nature, since Iceman sounds better than Icealien.
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