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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)
deletedover 9 years
which rule am i breaking
deletedover 9 years
It'll lead (eventually) to a forum suspension.
deletedover 9 years
ban connor pls for having his head up pranays ***
over 9 years
Vancy that's pretty much an empty threat since there's no violation for doing so as of now and people did it all of the time for other users (like Riot when the Adsense happened)
deletedover 9 years
or what
deletedover 9 years
Make a(nother) complaints thread if you want him unforum banned.

In the meantime, stop posting for him. I'll allow you to post the solution to the riddle, but that's all.
deletedover 9 years
haha pranay sucks to suck get rekt
deletedover 9 years
hes only forum banned because certain mods have beef with him
deletedover 9 years
This will be Pranay's last riddle thread for a while. If he wanted to continue posting riddles he should have taken that into consideration before getting himself forum banned.
over 9 years
I think it's an excellent idea, for one

I lost interest in the riddle after the "stupid" comment though, so go ahead pranay
deletedover 9 years
I don't think posting for forum banned users is a good idea, Connor
deletedover 9 years
[06:57:28 PM] pranay: post in my riddle thread that ill be giving out the solution in the next 5 minutes
over 9 years

Giga13 says

Yesterday I had the funniest dream in the world (even though it was really scary while I was dreaming it)

I dreamt that Riddler died irl and Sachy made a thread about it (along with 2 other random users having died in the last week) and that it was on the news. Then I got so scared that his ghost was trying to haunt me so I spent the rest of the dream running around my house looking for a good hiding place and for some reason my house was still not renovated (it was how my house was from 1 year ago)


considering your other em dream came true, this is scary. un-dream it now
over 9 years
well im glad that its not illegal to post for forum banned users anymore. see you in games pranay
deletedover 9 years
[05:03:47 PM] pranay: @giga- one can ban pranay from forums (even though i am still posting via connor), but you can never ban me from the games
over 9 years
Yesterday I had the funniest dream in the world (even though it was really scary while I was dreaming it)

I dreamt that Riddler died irl and Sachy made a thread about it (along with 2 other random users having died in the last week) and that it was on the news. Then I got so scared that his ghost was trying to haunt me so I spent the rest of the dream running around my house looking for a good hiding place and for some reason my house was still not renovated (it was how my house was from 1 year ago)
over 9 years
: (

can pranay still play games
deletedover 9 years
@giga- go back to kindergarten i meant
over 9 years
my classes are over for today (i only had one from 9am to 10am)
deletedover 9 years
[04:58:00 PM] pranay: @giga- go back to school
over 9 years
i steal connor's iphone 6 while he is sleeping and find the location of the island using google maps and call 9-1-1 for a helicopter

then it comes and when it arrives it rescues everyone on the island and we all live happily ever after : )
deletedover 9 years
[04:47:31 PM] pranay: @steven- if you can't solve, don't give stupid solutions. keeping them on top of each other means you are assuming the objects to be of cuboidical dimensions and having centers aligned, which wont happen
over 9 years
Hmmm then put two and two objects on top of each other and they will be parallel upwards. Should be two lines as long as they are all not on top

Since the surface is flat and all
deletedover 9 years
[04:34:01 PM] pranay: if you keep two objects on each other, then you dont need to align it with any shore, 2 points always make a line
[04:34:11 PM] pranay: and we need two lines
[04:34:14 PM] pranay: that are parallel
over 9 years
Exactly Connor.

And I didnt even mean on top (however this could work too), I meant all of them connected to each other and to the shore, therefore forming a big line composed of two parallel lines