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(Message started by: flamingdragon on Nov 27^th, 2006, 10:40pm)

Title: A White Horse
Post by flamingdragon on Nov 27^th, 2006, 10:40pm

A white horse jumped over a tower and landed on a priest, who immediately disappeared from the landscape. Where did this take place?

Title: Re: A White Horse
Post by towr on Nov 27^th, 2006, 11:47pm

[hide]on a chessboard[/hide]

Title: Re: A White Horse
Post by jollytall on Nov 28^th, 2006, 2:19am

I thought white horses jump over [hide]castles[/hide] or [hide]rooks[/hide], not towers. But it must be my English.

Title: Re: A White Horse
Post by towr on Nov 28^th, 2006, 3:07am

Hmm, in dutch it it literally translates to towers. Besides, they look like it, don't they?
And you could say the same for the other two. [hide]They'd be knight and bishop in chess terms.[/hide] So clearly it's a description in other terms.

Title: Re: A White Horse
Post by flamingdragon on Nov 28^th, 2006, 7:20am

True

Title: Re: A White Horse
Post by cchris on Nov 28^th, 2006, 2:04pm

Yeah, "Tower" threw me off.

Title: Re: A White Horse
Post by flamingdragon on Nov 28^th, 2006, 4:08pm

Well, the intent of the riddle is to throw u off.

Title: Re: A White Horse
Post by cchris on Nov 28^th, 2006, 5:51pm

Well then, I can change it.

A green man in a purple suit jumped over a brown brick thirty-three times, tackles a prince off the wall, then disappears.

Now figure that one out.

Title: Re: A White Horse
Post by flamingdragon on Nov 28^th, 2006, 6:20pm

If u can explain to me how that relates to chess, then i'll admit ur right.

Title: Re: A White Horse
Post by Icarus on Nov 28^th, 2006, 7:13pm

Since the english for the pieces are "Knight", "Rook", "Bishop", "Board", and not "Horse", "Tower", "Priest", "Landscape", I don't really understand why we are worrying about "Rook" vs "Tower" but not the others. If the riddle had been "A white knight jumped over a rook and landed on a bishop, who immediately dissappeared from the board", it wouldn't be much of riddle, would it?

Title: Re: A White Horse
Post by flamingdragon on Nov 28^th, 2006, 7:14pm

Exactly my point.

Title: Re: A White Horse
Post by cchris on Nov 29^th, 2006, 8:12am

Had you used chariot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_%28chess%29) it would've been fine, but the Rook merely looks like a tower, which is based completely off looks rather than any real relation.

-edit- It mentions "tower", but "castle" would be much more descriptive. I could also say that it was a pile of stones since a castle is made up of stones.

Title: Re: A White Horse
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Nov 29^th, 2006, 9:54am

I disagree, cchris. I think the riddle was well-worded the way it was posted.

Title: Re: A White Horse
Post by towr on Nov 29^th, 2006, 10:27am

on 11/29/06 at 08:12:08, cchris wrote:

Had you used chariot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_%28chess%29) it would've been fine

From the same wiki article

Quote:

Another possible explanation is that rooks represent siege towers.

Title: Re: A White Horse
Post by cchris on Nov 29^th, 2006, 12:10pm

As I said, the article mentions "Towers", but "castle" would help people relate to it more. At least when I think of tower, I think of a wooden or metal structure, whereas when everyone thinks of castle, they think of a stone structure.

Title: Re: A White Horse
Post by towr on Nov 29^th, 2006, 12:53pm

Castles generally aren't as mobile as siege towers though..
On the other hand, bishops generally don't walk diagonally either. So errr, well..