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Pranay's Riddle Time

deletedover 9 years

As pranay is unfairly forum banned, I must post this for him

Riddle Island

3 Friends are stranded on an island

  1. Giga
  2. Rutab
  3. Connor

The island has nothing but sand on it.
The island is flat, and has the following shape:

with dimension
Angles
A= 78 degrees
B=19 degrees
C=234 degrees
D=29 degrees

AB= 500 meters
BD= 450 meters

There is no tree or anything behind which you can hide from sight.
No matter where you are on the island, you can see anybody who is standing or sitting or sleeping anywhere on the island.
Each one is wearing a shirt, shorts, undergarments, pair of shoes and pair of stockings.

Giga has a lighter which can give you a flame for exactly 2 hours. The lighter is exactly 10 cms long.

Rutab has a gun with exactly 1 bullet in it. One bullet can kill only one person. He can't use that bullet to kill two people by firing it through one of them. The bullet always bursts inside the body on impact. The gun is exactly 30cms long.

Connor has I-Phone 6. He has switched it off to save battery, when he figured that his phone can stay on for exactly 6 hours. He does not have his phone charger. There no connection to make a phone call. There is no time lag when he switches his phone on/off. It happens instantly. So he can use the phone for 6 hours exactly. The phone is exactly 20cms long.

Kerry has a special power. She can find the location of Connor if she is not able to talk to Connor for 168 hours. She talked to Connor exactly 24 hours before theTime= t. She can't find his location unless those 168 hours pass. Once she finds him, she takes 24 hours to reach connor with food supply enough for several days.

Once she finds the location, she can ask Pranay to retrieve Connor from any corner of the planet.

They have food supplies for exactly 72 hours. They will die at exactly t+72. Where t is the time when they started on the island.

There is no fish near the shore, or even within their reach. No food on the island. But if one of them happens to eat 10Kg of flesh of the other person, they can survive another 24 hours.

Giga weighs 80 Kgs
Connor weighs 60Kgs
Rutab weighs 90 Kgs

Lets assume all the weight belongs to the flesh

Also each one of them knows that Pranay will find them if they stay on the island for exactly t+240 hours

Pranay will rescue everyone alive on the island

Each one of them requires sleep for exactly 6 hours after 18 hours of being awake, else they will die. This means they always sleep at the same time. One can’t be killed if they are awake. Even if the person in front is holding a gun.

Connor can get a signal on his phone if he manages to keep his phone in a position such that the line joining the phone and connor’s shoes is parallel to the line joining rutab’s gun and giga’s lighter, and the length of the line is same. He gets just one try. So if they do hit and trial, it wont work.

Each one of them knows about all the above

What each one of them can do so that

  1. All 3 survive (whether possible or not)
  2. 2 of them can survive ( mention for all combinations, whichever possible)
  3. Can survive alone (for all those that is possible)
over 9 years

Steven says

On the bright side, we just experienced a rule change live


who cares
deletedover 9 years
In any case this rule will lead to less overall bias, as there's no real way that people can turn a blind eye to it anymore.
over 9 years

TheShane says


Experience says

nonon is liverpool, vancy is real madrid. nonon is gonna get destroyed lmao


It'd be a better analogy if you used teams from the same league.


i forgot u dictate what great analogies are
over 9 years

Riotkiller says

That's a very good analogy because Liverpool are playing Real Madrid in the Champions League in 15 minutes, Shane.


Makes sense, I only watch my local league
over 9 years

Vancy says


Steven says


Riotkiller says

Something that should've been added quite a while ago tbh. Although I did enjoy people using it for me.


Yeah, this should have been there from the beginning cuz otherwise forum suspensions are basically useless.

Regardless, sucks that it was added in the most biased way considering every time someone else did it no one looked at them twice, but whatevs


Honestly, I talked to Laexio and he told me he always enforced this. Considering this is the first time this situation has cropped up for me personally, I don't see how you can call this biased.


I'm not calling you in particular biased. Also Laexio just did whatever he wanted tbh
deletedover 9 years
That's a very good analogy because Liverpool are playing Real Madrid in the Champions League in 15 minutes, Shane.
deletedover 9 years
Yeah proxy-posting is banned on almost every other forum I've ever been on.

I think the moral is that I'm just cooler than Pranay, though.
over 9 years
nonon is liverpool, vancy is real madrid. nonon is gonna get destroyed lmao
deletedover 9 years

Steven says


Riotkiller says

Something that should've been added quite a while ago tbh. Although I did enjoy people using it for me.


Yeah, this should have been there from the beginning cuz otherwise forum suspensions are basically useless.

Regardless, sucks that it was added in the most biased way considering every time someone else did it no one looked at them twice, but whatevs


Honestly, I talked to Laexio and he told me he always enforced this. Considering this is the first time this situation has cropped up for me personally, I don't see how you can call this biased.
over 9 years
I'm not sure what you're trying to say in your last post vancy. If you're saying it was implied against the rules before, it wasn't. It's not a bad rule change, so I won't complain, I'm just saying
over 9 years

Riotkiller says

Something that should've been added quite a while ago tbh. Although I did enjoy people using it for me.


Yeah, this should have been there from the beginning cuz otherwise forum suspensions are basically useless.

Regardless, sucks that it was added in the most biased way considering every time someone else did it no one looked at them twice, but whatevs
deletedover 9 years
It didn't need to be that well-defined to lead to a forum suspension, the warning on this thread is enough. I did feel like it had to be more explicitly stated, though.
over 9 years
WHERE'S THE RIDDLES
deletedover 9 years
i had to navigate using the back button to prevent the page from refreshing and losing the previous version
deletedover 9 years
Something that should've been added quite a while ago tbh. Although I did enjoy people using it for me.
over 9 years
give note + warn him not to do it again. oh and delete the thread ^_^
over 9 years
On the bright side, we just experienced a rule change live
deletedover 9 years
i think it's great that you edited the rules page specifically for me. i feel very flattered. but next time don't be matter-of-factly when it wasn't against the rules when i did it ;-)
over 9 years

Vancy says



To be fair, I just added this.


ninja'd dude
deletedover 9 years
nice edit vancy

deletedover 9 years


To be fair, I just added this.
over 9 years
Reading is hard
over 9 years
Bypassing Suspensions
Using an alt or creating a new account to bypass a suspension of any kind. Helping someone bypass by posting for them on the forums can also lead to this violation.
deletedover 9 years
theres nothing of that sort in the rules
over 9 years
posting for someone (pranjay) who is forum banned lmao