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(Message started by: alien2 on Sep 1^st, 2019, 9:45am)

Title: Mars attacks: Se7en
Post by alien2 on Sep 1^st, 2019, 9:45am

1. What is predictable in an unpredictable man?
2. What can’t be found in order?
3. What can you find for certain in chaos?
4. When will tomorrow arrive?
5. How do you travel into the past?
6. What is an arrow without a bow?
7. I was born in 20th century on Earth (I am not joking). I wasn't born in the year 1987. In which year was I born?

Title: Re: Mars attacks: Se7en
Post by towr on Sep 1^st, 2019, 10:05pm

1. [hide]That you don't know what he'll do next[/hide]
2. [hide]A shuffled deck of cards[/hide]
3. [hide]Eris[/hide]
4. [hide]In roughly 17 hours[/hide]
5. [hide]By going through memory lane[/hide]
6. [hide]An arrow[/hide]
7. [hide]In your birth-year[/hide]

Title: Re: Mars attacks: Se7en
Post by alien2 on Sep 2^nd, 2019, 6:41am

1, 5 and 6 are the expected answers. Other answers are a bit vague, even though they might be right.

on 09/01/19 at 22:05:53, towr wrote:

4. [hide]In roughly 17 hours[/hide]

I suppose that made sense back then. But what about now? Or three days from now? Your answer is correct; however, it is not the expected one, which concerns any moment in time.

Title: Re: Mars attacks: Se7en
Post by Grimbal on Sep 6^th, 2019, 5:00am

1. [hide]His unpredictability.[/hide]
2. [hide]The alphabet. Not all of it.[/hide]
3. [hide]The letters c, h, a, o, s.[/hide]
4. [hide]Every hour in some time zone.[/hide]
5. [hide]How DID you travel in the past. On foot?[/hide]
6. [hide]N arr?[/hide]
7. [hide]In 2179. Because 2.[/hide]

Title: Re: Mars attacks: Se7en
Post by alien2 on Sep 6^th, 2019, 8:52am

on 09/06/19 at 05:00:46, Grimbal wrote:

3. [hide]The letters c, h, a, o, s.[/hide]

You are correct. Or chaos. Or limited predictability.

on 09/06/19 at 05:00:46, Grimbal wrote:

5. [hide]How DID you travel in the past. On foot?[/hide]

That would be exceptionally difficult. The past is there, regardless whether or not I travel into it. But, if you must know, my UFO utilizes surfing on tachyon waves. Oh, the wonders I've seen... Argentinosaurus, Neanderthals, primitive organisms... Oh, man! What a thrill!

1, 3, 5 and 6 are definitely solved. Others? Hmm. Yes and no. Basically no; or else I am not that smart.

Title: Re: Mars attacks: Se7en
Post by Grimbal on Sep 12^th, 2019, 4:41am

No into. In.

Title: Re: Mars attacks: Se7en
Post by alien2 on Sep 12^th, 2019, 8:07am

"Travel back in time" and "travel into the past"; I think.

Title: Re: Mars attacks: Se7en
Post by alien2 on Oct 13^th, 2019, 10:49am

SPOILER (for a certain unsolved riddle): Permutations.

My two cents for the 4th riddle: Never. Hmm.