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(Message started by: Iceman on Oct 22^nd, 2007, 6:26am)

Title: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Oct 22^nd, 2007, 6:26am

Dean's father Derek passed away, and in the will he specified that if Dean guesses the password for his custom-made digital safe right, he would get the $9.000.000 check inside it. Dean can enter only letters, that is, up to nine letters, and the minimum is three. Dean has one shot at it, and if he inputs the wrong password, then Derek's wife, Dean's stepmother, gets the check, which represents most of Derek's wealth. Derek frequented Las Vegas casinos, and so he left the clue in his will for the safe combination. It was 'Black Jack' he liked to play, as well as most casino games. In the will, Derek said that game Black Jack has nothing to do with the password directly, but it represents the clue nevertheless. Dean thought about it for a few hours, and entered the right combination, and was $9.000.000 richer. What was the safe combination?

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Grimbal on Oct 22^nd, 2007, 8:48am

on 10/22/07 at 06:26:30, Iceman wrote:

What was the safe combination?

If it can be guessed on the first try, I wouldn't call that a safe combination.

[hide]TWENTYONE[/hide] Just a wild guess. If I were Dean, I would marry (and later murder) my stepmother.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Ghost Sniper on Oct 22^nd, 2007, 10:03am

on 10/22/07 at 08:48:44, Grimbal wrote:

If I were Dean, I would marry (and later murder) my stepmother.

...

SHE IS PROBABLY 25 OR MORE YEARS OLDER THAN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by denis on Oct 22^nd, 2007, 10:13am

It often happens that when a man remarries, he chooses a much younger woman. In this case, the step mother is closer in age to the step children than to the age of her new husband.

However, marrying your stepmother is illegal in certain jurisdictions (Texas for example), but legal in others.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Oct 22^nd, 2007, 10:32am

on 10/22/07 at 08:48:44, Grimbal wrote:

[hide]TWENTYONE[/hide] Just a wild guess.

But isn't that directly involved with Black Jack, in fact, the core of Black Jack? ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Grimbal on Oct 22^nd, 2007, 2:34pm

on 10/22/07 at 10:03:51, Ghost Sniper wrote:

SHE IS PROBABLY 25 OR MORE YEARS OLDER THAN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3 things:
1. The marriage wouldn't be so much for her than for her money,
2. a higher age will just make the heart attack less suspicious,
3. stepmothers are usually younger than mothers, especially with a rich father.
4. uh, yes that is what Denis said.
5. Iceman's real name is "Plumberry".

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Oct 22^nd, 2007, 3:31pm

5. Is my secret. ;) 8)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by JiNbOtAk on Oct 23^rd, 2007, 3:26am

on 10/22/07 at 14:34:15, Grimbal wrote:

5. Iceman's real name is "Plumberry".

So that's the answer, Plumberry ? :P

I'm gonna key in [hide]John[/hide]

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Oct 23^rd, 2007, 6:25am

Get serious because this is a serious riddle. :P

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Oct 23^rd, 2007, 3:29pm

Btw, every time I log in, and I have to log in every time I visit this forum, I have to type in my user name, which is plumberry. I made it myself, but then I found out that there is a girl with such nick or whatever, some kind of miss, real pretty and all. I, myself, am rugged, very ugly, I have a week's beard, smoke is coming from my nostrils, and I have blazing eyes. I am also a bodybuilder, a heavyweight boxer, and Karate Kid. 8)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by thecow135 on Oct 23^rd, 2007, 6:12pm

OOO OOO kind of like subzero?

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Oct 23^rd, 2007, 7:19pm

Did you watch Karate Kid 5? It was not a movie, which is fiction, so you probably did not. No, it was real, baby. I defeated a sumo wrestler, Japanese bloke, who had 200 kilograms in his stomach, each of his legs had 50 kilos, his left arm 25 kilos, his right arm 35 kilos, and his head 20 kilos. He rushed in my direction, yelling, with angry look in his eyes. But when he came close to me, I hit him, just once, in his stomach, with my strong left arm, and he fell down like sack of potatoes. In fact, he was in coma for 2 years. From that moment on, sumo wrestlers call me Mr Coma.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by DC1E2L on Oct 24^th, 2007, 1:00am

on 10/23/07 at 19:19:48, Iceman wrote:

From that moment on, sumo wrestlers call me Mr Coma.

Is that because the sumo wrestler put you in a vegetablised state when he awoke? ::)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Oct 24^th, 2007, 10:07am

He did. They called me sleeping cabbage. Actually, the nurse called me sleeping beauty, but this was before she saw me naked. But then I awoke, and put him right back to coma. Then he woke up again, and put me back to coma. Of course, I regain consciousness again, because I am tough, and put him to coma again. I guess you can figure out what happened next..

But, enough with bad humor: let's get back to bad riddles. I mean, to really good riddles, of course. 8)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Oct 25^th, 2007, 6:14am

Don't you sudoku me, or I will sudoku you! Btw, how about giving it another shot regarding the riddle? It can be a bad try, but at least you will have good intentions then. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Ghost Sniper on Oct 25^th, 2007, 10:08am

I'm going to use up my 3 tries here, but oh well.

[hide]Gambling[/hide]

[hide]Chips[/hide]

[hide]Casino[/hide]

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Ghost Sniper on Oct 26^th, 2007, 4:59am

on 10/25/07 at 12:56:47, Grimbal wrote:

Give me some more clues or I boycott this stupid riddle. And the other one as well.

Wow. No one has ever been so mad at Icey's riddles before. You gotta calm down a little, Grimby, Icey gives clues as we go along, like he always did.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Oct 26^th, 2007, 11:15am

No winner yet. Just losers. ;DThumbs up for courage Ghost Sniper, and my sympathies for incorrect guesses. ;)

.......yes...... questions........ but for now, all you have are riddles in the dark......

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by iono on Oct 27^th, 2007, 10:59am

"ten"There are ten letters, including the space, in "Black Jack".

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Oct 27^th, 2007, 1:07pm

Good try. But the answer is [hide]more interesting than that. This guess is a bit shallow.[/hide] ;) ::)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by JiNbOtAk on Oct 28^th, 2007, 9:29pm

[hide]White Light[/hide]

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Ghost Sniper on Oct 29^th, 2007, 4:58am

on 10/28/07 at 21:29:47, JiNbOtAk wrote:

[hide]White Light[/hide]

Way too many characters.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by mikedagr8 on Oct 29^th, 2007, 1:52pm

Only one, but we could 'witelite'.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Oct 30^th, 2007, 11:09am

No. It is one word.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 10^th, 2007, 12:08pm

The answer is weird, yes, but it has to do with [hide]casino[/hide], just as I hinted in the riddle. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Nov 10^th, 2007, 1:33pm

[hide]House[/hide]?

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 10^th, 2007, 1:57pm

Good try. I don't know what it means, but it looks like a fine effort to me. ::)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Nov 11^th, 2007, 8:55am

Since we were looking for a winning combination I decided to go with the house, since it always wins. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by thecow135 on Nov 11^th, 2007, 11:42am

true

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 13^th, 2007, 12:29pm

One of you is on the right track here, someone with an early guess on the 1st page. Guess who! But I won't confirm for now. ;) ::)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by iono on Nov 13^th, 2007, 8:57pm

on 10/25/07 at 10:08:19, Ghost Sniper wrote:

I'm going to use up my 3 tries here, but oh well.

[hide]Gambling[/hide]

[hide]Chips[/hide]

[hide]Casino[/hide]

I'm guessing that one of these are "on the right track", so is there a casino in Vegas with a big blackjack sign on it or something?

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 14^th, 2007, 2:43am

I don't think so.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by mikedagr8 on Nov 14^th, 2007, 2:50am

How many characters in the password?
[hide]TWENTYTWO
SPLIT
NOTHING
NINETEEN
BUSTED
BUST[/hide]
There are some of my guesses.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 14^th, 2007, 3:08am

on 11/14/07 at 02:50:24, mikedagr8 wrote:

How many characters in the password?

Not many. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by tiber13 on Nov 18^th, 2007, 4:53pm

Wold it be 9 characters, for you would of said n-8 characters...

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 19^th, 2007, 7:04am

There are certainly not nine characters in the password, I can tell you that right now. ;) Think smaller, a lot smaller. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by tiber13 on Nov 21^st, 2007, 4:02am

Think small,
think big

*not answering*

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 21^st, 2007, 8:14am

on 10/22/07 at 08:48:44, Grimbal wrote:

[hide]TWENTYONE[/hide] Just a wild guess.

You know, this wild guess of yours, it, actually, isn't so wild. ;) Stay on it, if you dare.. 8)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Grimbal on Nov 21^st, 2007, 9:07am

Well, it has to do with Black Jack. It wasn't just a pure random guess.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 21^st, 2007, 10:04am

So, what about it?

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Grimbal on Nov 21^st, 2007, 2:33pm

The good thing is that it has 9 letters.

The bad thing is that it has to do something directly with Black Jack. So I guess it cannot be it.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by FiBsTeR on Nov 21^st, 2007, 2:47pm

ACE?

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by JiNbOtAk on Nov 21^st, 2007, 8:12pm

When is 21 not 21 ? When it's half of [hide]FORTYTWO[/hide] :P

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 5:16am

on 11/21/07 at 14:33:24, Grimbal wrote:

The good thing is that it has 9 letters.

The bad thing is that it has to do something directly with Black Jack. So I guess it cannot be it.

No, [hide]21[/hide] is not it, but there is something about it.. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 5:20am

on 11/21/07 at 20:12:18, JiNbOtAk wrote:

When is 21 not 21 ? When it's half of [hide]FORTYTWO[/hide] :P

And what is [hide]42[/hide], if anything? Is it just a number, or it represents something else? Because if only the former, then it has nothing to do with it. All I'm saying is that [hide]42[/hide] isn't the intended answer, but you might be on to something here, talking about technique that could solve the riddle. Well, maybe. :-/

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Grimbal on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 5:50am

Maybe not 21 but [hide] chosen one [/hide]?

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 8:38am

Neo or Caleb?:P Sorry, buddy, but I dunno what you're suggesting. And perhaps you should stick with [hide]casino[/hide] instead? ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by FiBsTeR on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 8:49am

42 is the answer to life (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything). :o

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Answer_to_Life.png

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 8:54am

That's nice, but stay with the [hide]casino[/hide]. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by FiBsTeR on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 9:51am

It's also the name of a dominoes game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_%28dominoes%29).

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 3:52pm

Nice try, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the casino.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by denis on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 4:42pm

Well if the answer is related to 21 how about this?
[hide]craps[/hide] is the result of [hide]rolling a 2 and a 1 when playing craps[/hide]

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by JiNbOtAk on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 4:59pm

ROYALE

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 22^nd, 2007, 5:05pm

Nope.

on 11/22/07 at 16:42:45, denis wrote:

Well if the answer is related to 21 how about this?
[hide]craps[/hide] is the result of [hide]rolling a 2 and a 1 when playing craps[/hide]

Not bad thinking, I suppose, but not the intended answer. Btw, no need to separate the number 21 like that. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by tiber13 on Nov 26^th, 2007, 4:13am

you are getting it all wrong! the aswer has to do with 21, so dont work off of that, but the answer will be related to 21 in the end. Icey is tricking you!

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 26^th, 2007, 6:22am

All that I will say for now, w/o the axe gif, :P is this: focus on the casino, for the answer lies there. It is weird, yes, but it has something to do with the above number. ;) Seek, and thou shell find.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Nov 26^th, 2007, 8:18am

on 11/26/07 at 06:22:36, Iceman wrote:

Seek, and thou shell find.

[hide]Baccarat[/hide]?

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by FiBsTeR on Nov 26^th, 2007, 12:38pm

Do you mean that you have to be at least 21 (years of age) to do whatever activity it is that applies to the answer?

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Grimbal on Nov 26^th, 2007, 1:50pm

Maybe the code is "LOSTITALL". ;D

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 26^th, 2007, 3:29pm

Look for something you probably never considered before, but it sure does match. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by thecow135 on Nov 26^th, 2007, 4:10pm

floor!

21st floor of the casino...

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 26^th, 2007, 5:04pm

Nope.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by denis on Nov 27^th, 2007, 7:53am

[hide]XXI[/hide]

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 27^th, 2007, 8:29am

Huh?

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by denis on Nov 27^th, 2007, 8:36am

on 11/27/07 at 08:29:22, Iceman wrote:

Huh?

XXI=21 in roman numerals.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Ghost Sniper on Nov 27^th, 2007, 8:36am

[hide]LASVEGAS[/hide]

or

[hide]LAS VEGAS[/hide], counting the space as a character.

Possibly [hide]VILLA[/hide], as it is [hide]casino[/hide]'s original meaning.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Nov 27^th, 2007, 8:38am

No.

on 11/27/07 at 08:36:10, denis wrote:

XXI=21 in roman numerals.

There you go with numerals again. ::)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by tiber13 on Dec 7^th, 2007, 10:27am

it is 42!
7 (god)
times
6 (devil)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Dec 7^th, 2007, 1:42pm

on 12/07/07 at 10:27:03, tiber13 wrote:

it is 42!
7 (god)
times
6 (devil)

Is this some game?

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Ghost Sniper on Dec 8^th, 2007, 10:50am

42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. So, technically, it is correct.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Dec 8^th, 2007, 1:53pm

I'm still not sure what the number 21 has to do with it. Why not multiply it with, say, 3, instead of 2? Perhaps 63 then also means something like, say, Debussy's age when he composed the peace Fireworks. I dunno what was his age back then, but I'm trying to make a point here, like a genuine one, that is, the Stoner 63, a modular firearm. And if what you say is true, then 42 may be an answer to a lot of riddles, even the 100 prisoners one. Or at least, that is my opinion for now. Btw, you don't have to multiply it. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by gotit on Dec 9^th, 2007, 7:30am

I am not interested in gambling or casinos, but I would still make an wild guess- [hide]BET[/hide]

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Dec 9^th, 2007, 7:40am

No.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Ghost Sniper on Dec 10^th, 2007, 5:00am

Let's see...

if we think back to cube 4, cross was somewhat related to cube, but not directly. So, here, we have to think outside the box...

[hide]dice[/hide]
[hide]cards[/hide]
[hide]texas[/hide]

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Dec 10^th, 2007, 7:30am

You have to provide an explanation too, so I won't comment yet. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Ghost Sniper on Dec 10^th, 2007, 10:04am

for [hide]dice[/hide] and [hide]cards[/hide], the reasoning is pretty obvious. For [hide]texas[/hide], I'm thinking of [hide]Texas Hold'em[/hide]. I'm thinking that the right answer is the last one.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Dec 10^th, 2007, 10:46am

Why don't you still humor me with your reasoning, just to be on the safe side. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Ghost Sniper on Dec 11^th, 2007, 10:05am

[hide]Dice[/hide] is used in [hide]craps[/hide].
[hide]Cards[/hide] are used in [hide]poker, BlackJack, etc[/hide].
[hide]Texas Hold'em is a gambling game similar to Poker, which is why I chose Texas.[/hide]

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Dec 12^th, 2007, 5:45am

Well then, do all of these three games have something to do with [hide]21[/hide], and this number being quite important for them? I haven't suggested that the above number has to be important for some game, just that it might be a part of it, important or not. It is just that I don't see the connection with these games, because I don't know how to play them. So details, please, details, or we can prolong this until we die out of old age. There has to be some connection out there, crazy or not, so one could connect the dots and see the whole picture.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Ghost Sniper on Dec 12^th, 2007, 6:28am

I'm still not quite getting what you mean, other than the answer has some connection with 21.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Dec 13^th, 2007, 5:34am

on 12/12/07 at 06:28:49, Ghost Sniper wrote:

I'm still not quite getting what you mean, other than the answer has some connection with 21.

So is ther some darn connection with Texas Hold'em? ;) ::)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Ghost Sniper on Dec 13^th, 2007, 5:58am

All I can think of is this:

With 8 players, each player has 2 cards, which equals 16 cards total. Then, the number of cards on the table can reach 5, which means 21 cards in play total

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Dec 13^th, 2007, 6:15am

It is not that dumb. It is dumber, but not so complicated. Just focus on [hide]one thing alone[/hide], instead of considering lots of things and players. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by tiber13 on Dec 14^th, 2007, 6:02pm

21 * 2 * 1

21 multypyed by 2 and 1, its digits

!42!

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Dec 15^th, 2007, 12:29am

I meant focus on another thing, not the number 21 alone. There is something else involved as well. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Dec 24^th, 2007, 5:19am

The answer is something you probably never considered before. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Dec 24^th, 2007, 5:21am

Btw, one of the [hide]Ghost Sniper's answers[/hide] is real close. :D

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Ghost Sniper on Jan 8^th, 2008, 5:00am

well, in that case, I'm going to give a few more tries:

[hide]craps[/hide]

[hide]hold[/hide]

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Jan 8^th, 2008, 5:44am

No. And forget about plural. ;)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by StallionMang on Jan 8^th, 2008, 8:55am

Is it [hide]DIE ? My reasoning is that there are 21 total pips on a die (1+2+3+4+5+6).[/hide]

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Jan 8^th, 2008, 9:18am

Yes! 8)

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Ghost Sniper on Jan 8^th, 2008, 10:07am

Wow...

GAHHHHHH!!!!!!!! SO CLOSE!!!!!!!! HOW COULD I NOT HAVE SEEN THIS!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by thecow135 on Jan 8^th, 2008, 6:02pm

nice...

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Jan 9^th, 2008, 5:52am

on 01/08/08 at 18:02:24, thecow135 wrote:

nice...

What? You're saying that one of my riddles isn't bad? Well then, that's a pleasant change.

And speaking of my riddles, I'm afraid that I'll be most probably absent from this forum some time, as I'm currently oriented on poetry instead. Then again, the truth is that I'm losing interest generally speaking, feeling lately like a zombie. Although I still have interest for eating, drinking and sleeping on a nice mattress. This is probably because my callus hand is my best friend. Later.

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by thecow135 on Jan 9^th, 2008, 6:51pm

whoa.. wait what about your hand?

Title: Re: The will 4
Post by Iceman on Jan 11^th, 2008, 6:13am

::)