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(Message started by: alien2 on May 16^th, 2016, 5:24am)

Title: 12 Monkeys Version
Post by alien2 on May 16^th, 2016, 5:24am

A 17-year-old boy travels back in time and dies in front of his earlier self who is a 9-year-old. Although the 9-year-old didn’t recognize his future self at all he knew right away that the boy who died was himself. How?

Title: Re: 12 Monkeys Version
Post by towr on May 16^th, 2016, 8:28am

[hide]Because an intermediate version of himself traveled back in time before to tell him?[/hide]

Title: Re: 12 Monkeys Version
Post by Grimbal on May 16^th, 2016, 9:58am

A time-travel misunderstanding. To build on towr's idea.

The 17-year-old wants to prevent something he did at age 10, he travels back to talk to his 9-year-old self. But the 9-year-old got information from his 10-year-old self that the 17-year-old self wants to kill him. So the 9-year old kills the 17-year old in self-defense. At age 10, he manages to get access to a time machine and returns to his 8-year-old self to warn himself of the deadly threat. At age 17 he understands it was a fatal misunderstanding and wants to tell his 9-year old self not to get back at age 10 to his 8-year self and pretend his 17-year-old self is a threat.

Simple, isn't it?

Title: Re: 12 Monkeys Version
Post by alien2 on May 17^th, 2016, 2:41am

I am lost here. I dunno much about temporal paradox. Then again who does?

I had something simpler in mind although [hide]with a twist[/hide] and just the boys mentioned in the riddle have a role concerning the expected answer.

Title: Re: 12 Monkeys Version
Post by dudiobugtron on May 31^st, 2016, 6:25pm

[hide]He has a rare disease that nobody else has. So when he sees the time-traveller die of that disease, he knew who it must be.[/hide]

Title: Re: 12 Monkeys Version
Post by alien2 on Jun 1^st, 2016, 12:57am

Nice try. I had something else in mind.

Title: Re: 12 Monkeys Version
Post by alien2 on Jun 19^th, 2016, 9:59am

A big clue: Does [hide]maturity[/hide] ring a bell?

Title: Re: 12 Monkeys Version
Post by dudiobugtron on Jun 23^rd, 2016, 5:52pm

Perhaps the boy [hide]wanted to kill himself in this way, and he had (even at 9!) planned for many years to make a time machine for that very purpose. So when he saw it happen, he knew that he must have been successful.[/hide]

Title: Re: 12 Monkeys Version
Post by alien2 on Jun 24^th, 2016, 3:52am

Again, temporal paradox confuses me. No intended answer yet which isn't complicated.

Title: Re: 12 Monkeys Version
Post by dudiobugtron on Jun 26^th, 2016, 7:46pm

Perhaps then [hide]the older version of himself told the boy who he was as he was dying[/hide]?

Title: Re: 12 Monkeys Version
Post by alien2 on Jun 26^th, 2016, 11:58pm

Huh?

Title: Re: 12 Monkeys Version
Post by dudiobugtron on Jul 12^th, 2016, 5:53pm

on 06/26/16 at 23:58:36, alien2 wrote:

Huh?

My guess was that the 17-year old boy told the 9 year old who he was just before he died.

Like, "Hi, I'm you from the future, aaeeeurghhh......"

I'm guessing that's not the correct answer, though!

Title: Re: 12 Monkeys Version
Post by alien2 on Jul 12^th, 2016, 10:57pm

The intended answer is a bit silly. He became more mature as death affected him profoundly.

Title: Re: 12 Monkeys Version
Post by dudiobugtron on Jul 21^st, 2016, 10:19pm

Oh, I see. The 9 year old boy also died?

Title: Re: 12 Monkeys Version
Post by alien2 on Jul 22^nd, 2016, 12:51am

Wouldn't you?