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(Message started by: Joe on Mar 1^st, 2006, 10:29pm)

Title: stranded
Post by Joe on Mar 1^st, 2006, 10:29pm

Tou are trapped in a forrest surrounded by endless trees with no compass and no map. There is nothing on the ground that is usefull. a few yards from you is a cave, but it leads to a dead end. on the ground there is a rock and a bottle of juice.

How do u find a way out of the forrest?

Title: Re: stranded
Post by BNC on Mar 1^st, 2006, 11:11pm

Well, since the trees are endless, there is no way out.
QED 8)

Title: Re: stranded
Post by ChunkTug on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 12:36am

Climb a tree to survey the area and pick a route out. Take the juice with you so you don't dehydrate. Leave the rock (unless it looks lucky).

Title: Re: stranded
Post by towr on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 12:53am

The trees may be endless (actually, they may not, there is a physical upper limit to the size of a tree given an amount fo gravity), but the forest is not..
Just walk in one direction for long enough and you'll get out.

Title: Re: stranded
Post by rmsgrey on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 5:07am

type "quit" and leave the program...

(you mean it's not a text adventure game?)

Title: Re: stranded
Post by Icarus on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 7:26pm

I moved this thread because it does not fit at all in the "Hard" category. There are plenty of answers for it. But there is no real indication which is desired by the author.

What we really need for problems like these is an "Obtuse" category (too many solutions w/o enough information to choose between them).

Title: Re: stranded
Post by Grimbal on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 6:24am

on 03/02/06 at 05:07:03, rmsgrey wrote:

type "quit" and leave the program...

(you mean it's not a text adventure game?)

That is a deep thought.
How many people have spent days on an adventure game, walking around, trying to find the exit while the only thing they had to do is to press the big button. Of course, it requires thinking outside fo the box.
Almost matrix-ish.

Title: Re: stranded
Post by SMQ on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 8:01am

on 03/03/06 at 06:24:17, Grimbal wrote:

How many people have spent days on an adventure game, walking around, trying to find the exit while the only thing they had to do is to press the big button.

Or close the #@%*! door behind them when they enter a room. (Thank you, Riven...) :P ;)

--SMQ

Title: Re: stranded
Post by rmsgrey on Mar 4^th, 2006, 4:26am

on 03/03/06 at 08:01:21, SMQ wrote:

Or close the #@%*! door behind them when they enter a room. (Thank you, Riven...) :P ;)

--SMQ

That happened to me in Myst - the lifts in Channelwood require you to close the door before they go anywhere - so I spent some time looking for the puzzle I'd missed to get power to them...

Title: Re: stranded
Post by rusticdagger on Mar 8^th, 2006, 3:15pm

is this a sort of wordplay? ???

Title: Re: stranded
Post by Puffster on May 26^th, 2006, 1:32am

I miss Parser Interface. Ahhh, the good ole days. :'(

Title: Re: stranded
Post by graphia on May 28^th, 2006, 3:54pm

Easy, you're a chimpanzee who lives in the forest and has absolutely no desire to leave. The juice bottle belonged to a foolish stray human who you just killed with the rock and then ate, and the cave is where you've been sleeping out of the rain :P

Title: Re: stranded
Post by TenaliRaman on May 30^th, 2006, 8:35am

on 03/01/06 at 22:29:35, Joe wrote:

How do u find a way out of the forrest?

I google it ...

Title: Re: stranded
Post by DewiMorgan on Jun 6^th, 2006, 8:14am

on 03/01/06 at 22:29:35, Joe wrote:

Tou are trapped in a forrest surrounded by endless trees with no compass and no map. There is nothing on the ground that is usefull. a few yards from you is a cave, but it leads to a dead end. on the ground there is a rock and a bottle of juice.

How do u find a way out of the forrest?

Unless the question is badly formed, the second bolded phrase is for colour, a red herring, and could equally read "on the floor there is a rocketship, instructions how to use it fuel, and a map outta here" - we know that for some reason they are not useful, so we can ignore them.

However, I believe that the question is badly formed.

In which case the answer is [hide]to start a forest fire by using the bottle of juice as a lens, and hiding in the cave until the fire has passed. The rock could be used to prop the bottle in place so you can start the fire while not around, but personally, I'd start the fire by hand, then take the juice away again, as you may need it. Be aware of the dangers of smoke inhalation, and the probability that the oxygen in the cave may all get used up.[/hide]

Title: Re: stranded
Post by Lozboz on Jun 20^th, 2006, 6:06am

Enter the cave; you are no longer in the forest because you are in the cave.