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(Message started by: Iceman on Mar 3rd, 2008, 11:08am)
Title: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 3rd, 2008, 11:08am
You want to captain the sea ship Enterprise. In order to get the ship, 1st you must answer the question below correctly.

You are the midget tourist in topnotch health, onboard the ship, traveling overseas. After catching some fresh air outside, being a lone wolf, you return alone to your cabin. The only object inside is one bed, mounted to the wall, so you take a nap. Several hours later, you decide to get out of the cabin. But even though there's nothing blocking your way out and you can move freely inside the cabin, you don't leave it for 4 hours. Why? Mind you, the door wasn't stuck nor was the key.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by denis on Mar 3rd, 2008, 4:00pm
If you're the midget, I suppose you can't reach the cabin doorknob and must wait for something special to happen  ;)
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by mikedagr8 on Mar 3rd, 2008, 10:36pm
There is a danger outside, you are just waiting for it to clear up.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 4th, 2008, 4:23am

on 03/03/08 at 16:00:57, denis wrote:
If you're the midget, I suppose you can't reach the cabin doorknob and must wait for something special to happen  ;)

But how do you explain you returning alone to your cabin then? Nobody opened the door for you, so no.



on 03/03/08 at 22:36:09, mikedagr8 wrote:
There is a danger outside, you are just waiting for it to clear up.

No. You want to leave the cabin, and so you're not waiting for anything.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by tiber13 on Mar 4th, 2008, 4:23am
[hide]you just gave birth?[/hide]

other then that, the fact you have to wait for a rainy day to reach the 45 floor.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 4th, 2008, 4:28am

on 03/04/08 at 04:23:28, tiber13 wrote:
[hide]you just gave birth?[/hide]

Not at all.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by gotit on Mar 4th, 2008, 4:51am
When you wake up, it's already night and the room is too dark for you to see anything. Since you are a midget, you can't put on the lights as the switch is beyond your reach. So you decide to wait till the sun comes up.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Grimbal on Mar 4th, 2008, 5:48am
A submarine?  The Nautilus?
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 4th, 2008, 6:02am

on 03/04/08 at 04:51:45, gotit wrote:
When you wake up, it's already night and the room is too dark for you to see anything. Since you are a midget, you can't put on the lights as the switch is beyond your reach. So you decide to wait till the sun comes up.

Lame, but at least you're thinking now. Just think some more. Btw, the chances are real high that you stumble on the doorknob in the dark.  



on 03/04/08 at 05:48:03, Grimbal wrote:
A submarine?  The Nautilus?

It isn't a submarine.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by onlyme722 on Mar 4th, 2008, 5:49pm
First I was thinking along the silly lines:  

Crawling up onto the bed was the easy part, but perhaps I'm a midget with a terrible fear of heights, and it takes me 4 hours to build of the courage to drop down to the floor and leave :).
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 5th, 2008, 4:12am
No. It wasn't a bunk bed, & you're perfectly healthy.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by onlyme722 on Mar 5th, 2008, 4:29am
The casinos and bars were not yet opened?

(yes, this is ridiculous considering that these watering holes stay open nearly 24-7)
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by onlyme722 on Mar 5th, 2008, 4:32am
or maybe he realized that the "midgets 4 us" dance/ball didn't begin quite yet.

(sorry, screwdrivers (an alcoholic beverage) can impair any individual's normal thinking patterns :D )
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 5th, 2008, 4:38am

on 03/05/08 at 04:29:35, onlyme722 wrote:
The casinos and bars were not yet opened?




on 03/05/08 at 04:32:30, onlyme722 wrote:
or maybe he realized that the "midgets 4 us" dance/ball didn't begin quite yet.

Nope. You do want to leave your cabin.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by onlyme722 on Mar 5th, 2008, 4:49am
...they say they are serving free drinks to any individual who keeps their ass inside their own cabin for the next 4 hours?


Sorry....stumped right now :D
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 5th, 2008, 4:59am

on 03/05/08 at 04:49:48, onlyme722 wrote:
...they say they are serving free drinks to any individual who keeps their ass inside their own cabin for the next 4 hours?

Nothing like that.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by onlyme722 on Mar 5th, 2008, 5:08am
i know the answer is right in front of me (hopefully only figuratively speaking?)
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 5th, 2008, 6:19am
If you don't know the answer you don't know the answer. But yes, the answer isn't a [hide]usual one[/hide].


http://www.geocities.com/alien624837/enterprise2.gif
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Grimbal on Mar 5th, 2008, 1:04pm
You are a mouse.  You have to wait for the cat's siesta.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by gotit on Mar 6th, 2008, 4:35am
Another lame answer- The midget had superstitions about time. ;)
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 6th, 2008, 4:48am
No to both. At this particular moment you're not thinking straight; which is all right, I suppose, because this is perhaps an unorthodox riddle. Think-tank, anyone?
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Grimbal on Mar 6th, 2008, 6:12am
Due to a problem with the design of the boat, and a definite "not my job" attitude of the contractors, a giant clock was fixed on the wall half covering the door of the cabin.  You can leave the cabin only when both hands are on the right side of the dial.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 6th, 2008, 6:25am
No clock either, just the bed.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by gotit on Mar 6th, 2008, 6:27am
You are a snail. It took you 4 hours to reach the door from the bed.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 6th, 2008, 8:21am
No. Nice try though, I think.  ::)
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Grimbal on Mar 6th, 2008, 9:16am
You are a flea.  To go out, you need your host to go out with you.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 6th, 2008, 11:00am
Nah. You're human, actually.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Grimbal on Mar 6th, 2008, 1:40pm
Are you sure?

Bwaaaahahahhaahaaa!

That removes the possibility of a werewolf or a vampire who needs to wait for the full moon resp. the sun to pass.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 6th, 2008, 2:42pm

on 03/06/08 at 13:40:37, Grimbal wrote:
That removes the possibility of a werewolf or a vampire

Good.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by gotit on Mar 6th, 2008, 9:07pm

on 03/06/08 at 14:42:38, Iceman wrote:
Good.


What does that mean. Does that mean that Grimbal has solved the riddle or does that mean that the midget was not a vampire or a werewolf.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 7th, 2008, 5:59am
The latter.

Btw, I like your personalized picture Gotit. Are all Indians so handsome? :P





http://www.geocities.com/alien624837/enterprise2.gif  
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 7th, 2008, 6:07am

on 03/06/08 at 21:07:00, gotit wrote:
does that mean that the midget was not a vampire or a werewolf.

You really think that that's my level, just because I posted once and long time ago a riddle about a vampire? :P  ::)
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by iono on Mar 8th, 2008, 6:28pm
are you not supposed to be on the ship?
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 9th, 2008, 8:04am
You're only a tourist and nobody hates you, or at least not on this ship.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Grimbal on Mar 9th, 2008, 2:26pm
You drank too much and need a few hours for the alcohol level to return to an acceptable level.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by denis on Mar 9th, 2008, 4:23pm

on 03/03/08 at 11:08:46, Iceman wrote:
so you take a nap. Several hours later, you decide to get out of the cabin.[/b]


The midget is still asleep and decided in mid dream to get out of the cabin. He only wakes up four hours later (a very long nap indeed)
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 9th, 2008, 5:56pm
No to both.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by denis on Mar 10th, 2008, 7:00am
Is the intended answer possible with a normal size adult, i.e. is being a midget relevant?
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by gotit on Mar 10th, 2008, 8:02am
Also, is the fact that he waited for 4 hours important?
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Grimbal on Mar 10th, 2008, 8:41am
I don't know.

Maybe his cabin was almost below the sea level.  During high tide, the water goes high enough that the midget has to climb on the bed.  You see, he cannot swim.  After a few hours, it is low tide, he can go down and walk out.

::)
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by denis on Mar 10th, 2008, 11:30am

on 03/10/08 at 08:41:26, Grimbal wrote:
I don't know.

Maybe his cabin was almost below the sea level.  During high tide, the water goes high enough that the midget has to climb on the bed.  You see, he cannot swim.  After a few hours, it is low tide, he can go down and walk out.

::)


Hmm... small problem with that scenario. If the boat floats, high tide or low tide won't change anything. The water line on the boat stays at the same level. Only on drydock, or if the ship is grounded would it make a difference.

Also, the midget can walk freely about his cabin according to Ice.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Grimbal on Mar 10th, 2008, 3:57pm
You wouldn't think a boat where the water enters the cabins with the tide is floating would you?  ;D
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by denis on Mar 10th, 2008, 4:10pm
LOL... That would make for a very long trip indeed.  :)
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 10th, 2008, 4:42pm
I'm not going to comment yet. Guess why. Forget about hints and clues. This riddle is not for the timid. ::)
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by denis on Mar 11th, 2008, 7:30am
Ok, how about a variation on Grimbal's solution.

For example, if the boat ran aground and is sideways such that the midget can't reach the door which is now above his head. So he waits for the tide water to rise so he can eventually swim to the door.
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Ghost Sniper on Mar 11th, 2008, 8:25am

on 03/11/08 at 07:30:20, denis wrote:
Ok, how about a variation on Grimbal's solution.

For example, if the boat ran aground and is sideways such that the midget can't reach the door which is now above his head. So he waits for the tide water to rise so he can eventually swim to the door.




on 03/03/08 at 11:08:46, Iceman wrote:
you can move freely inside the cabin
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by Iceman on Mar 13th, 2008, 6:50pm
Denis is so close, but the riddle sort of implies that it happened on open sea. Still, your answer is a real good one so I accept it; but it is partially valid because Ghost Sniper is right: no water. So he simply waits to get rescued, that's all.

You could say that the riddle is over now. However, my idea happens on the open sea.  ;)
Title: Re: Enterprise 2
Post by cheesepuff on Apr 18th, 2008, 9:48pm
He's not leaving the room because he is depressed because he had just quit his job being ship jester because someone had cut off these wooden disks from the bed, making th midget think that he was taller, quitting his job, and sleeping off his hangover. He wake up and realizes that he is not taller at all and cries for 4 hours.

For those of you who are lost, refer to the older pages of the what happened section.

Oh the other hand... [hide]pirates[/hide]


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