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(Message started by: alien2 on Jan 16^th, 2017, 7:03am)

Title: Half a stick away from victory
Post by alien2 on Jan 16^th, 2017, 7:03am

I broke a stick into two halves. Yet when I threw one half away, I did not have a half of the stick at all. How come?!

Title: Re: Half a stick away from victory
Post by dudiobugtron on Jan 25^th, 2017, 5:19pm

Because you [hide]threw the other half away too[/hide].

Title: Re: Half a stick away from victory
Post by alien2 on Jan 25^th, 2017, 10:09pm

Nope. And yet, in a way, you are on the right track.

Title: Re: Half a stick away from victory
Post by dudiobugtron on Jan 26^th, 2017, 5:54pm

The second half was [hide]still attached to the first half[/hide].

Title: Re: Half a stick away from victory
Post by alien2 on Jan 27^th, 2017, 12:07am

on 01/26/17 at 17:54:59, dudiobugtron wrote:

The second half was [hide]still attached to the first half[/hide].

How is that humanly possible?

Title: Re: Half a stick away from victory
Post by dudiobugtron on Jan 27^th, 2017, 12:29am

on 01/27/17 at 00:07:29, alien2 wrote:

How is that humanly possible?

Not humanly possible - but perhaps possible for a stick, depending on what sort of stick it is.

Try breaking a pizza in half, for example - and you'll see that the two halves are usually still attached. So perhaps it is a pizza stick, for eg.

Or perhaps it is some sort of fancy nightstick that turns into a nunchuk when you break it in half :)

Title: Re: Half a stick away from victory
Post by alien2 on Jan 27^th, 2017, 1:44am

It is just a stick. And nothing hangs in this riddle. No offense to those with prostate problems.

Title: Re: Half a stick away from victory
Post by dudiobugtron on Jan 27^th, 2017, 8:07pm

I think it might have something to do with [hide]throwing a stick for a dog[/hide].

Title: Re: Half a stick away from victory
Post by alien2 on Jan 27^th, 2017, 10:38pm

The only dog I love is Dylan Dog. So no.

If I hadn't omitted an important detail this riddle wouldn't be a riddle. You needn't conceive other things or beings in order to solve the riddle.

Title: Re: Half a stick away from victory
Post by dudiobugtron on Jan 28^th, 2017, 1:13pm

[hide]After you throw the other half away, the bit you have left is a whole stick, not half a stick. Sticks by nature are already just broken off bits of tree branches. Now you have a stick that is smaller, but still no less of a stick.[/hide]

Title: Re: Half a stick away from victory
Post by alien2 on Jan 28^th, 2017, 1:57pm

Not good enough. I think. Keep thinking like that for certain regarding the intended answer.

Title: Re: Half a stick away from victory
Post by alien2 on Feb 11^th, 2017, 10:11am

on 01/28/17 at 13:13:06, dudiobugtron wrote:

This is extremely close to the intended answer. I guess wording of the riddle is pretty clumsy. Sorry 'bout that. Perhaps I should've said: '...I did not have a half of A stick at all.' I dunno.

Title: Re: Half a stick away from victory
Post by alien2 on Feb 25^th, 2017, 12:21am

The intended answer, which belongs to the badly worded riddle, is as follows. A stick I found is not THE stick, as it was broken before, it was broken twice. A/THE confuse the hell out of me.