2 | Voice & Text | Subject: Bored...

[duplicitoussight]

[His first post is voice.]

Say, to all you magic-users! I'm curious. How did you learn your art? I suppose this applies to anyone with an "unnatural" ability as well.

[The second is a text post under his name, posted an hour after the above.]

I have a puzzle for you, Exsilium. But that's not fun enough, is it? Let's make it a game! I'll pay the first three people who solve it 10✥... no, up to 50✥! The first one gets a special prize! Isn't that exciting? (⌒▽⌒)☆

[Attached to this post is this diagram.]

Now, here is the situation! There are three houses. Each house needs electricity, gas, and water. The goal is to connect the houses to their utilities by drawing lines. It's easy, right? Very easy!

But there's a catch! None of the lines can intersect. But even with the handicap, it's a simple puzzle. I'm sure you can all crack it in no time!

Respond with your answers. Be sure to lock them, so there won't be any cheating~ 1✥ will buy you a hint.

I look forward to rewarding the winner!!

Comments

text

[concealingeyes]

[She throws this at him from her room after fifteen minutes of staring at it.]

Done.

text

[duplicitoussight]

Uwah, that is most certainly, most definitely...!!! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°









~~WRONG~~

locked / text

[clinical]

Rather than asking for a reward, I'd like to offer payment for the entertainment.

locked / text

[duplicitoussight]

[Oh it's this guy...]

Wow, how generous of you!!
How much would this payment be???

voice

[theboywhodied]

I attended a wizarding school, of course. Six years, would've been seven if I'd finished.

voice

[duplicitoussight]

A school? How interesting, how interesting... how were the students chosen?

locked;

[velveteened]

Even if you call it easy, it seems pretty tricky!

locked;

[duplicitoussight]

It's all a matter of perspective and positive thinking~
Surely you can manage that!

locked;

[aceordisgraced]

How's this? :)

locked; 1/2

[duplicitoussight]

Hmm!
Congratulations, it looks like--!

locked;

[duplicitoussight]

--wait, wait!
You seem to be missing a house~
House 1 doesn't have water~
It looks like they'll die of thirst~

text;

[silenceandcards]

Like tricks, or the sorcery?

[he ignores the puzzle.

he can't even open the freaking file how do you technology :||||]

text;

[duplicitoussight]

[Oh Keith.]

The latter~
The former I can learn from a book.

Permavid, locked

[governorkang]

The answer to the puzzle is only possible in three dimensions.

Permavid, locked

[duplicitoussight]

[He switches to video as well, to make it easier to communicate.]

An interesting answer! Want to show me?

Private

[draconic_historian]

Assuming each house requires it's own, independent line, the puzzle as given is a logical impossibility.

However, if you assign the houses electricity in series, then it becomes a rather simple endeavor.

Behold.

Private

[duplicitoussight]

[Oh, someone caught on quicker than he thought!]

Yup! You got it on both counts! (lol)
That's an inventive way to solve it!
I wouldn't have thought of that.

[voice]

[claimyourself]

My people are born with powers, but they can be unpredictable and hard to control sometimes.

Mostly I just think what I want to happen, and it does, though sometimes I need to speak a Cast too.

[voice]

[duplicitoussight]

Wow. That's an incredible power! So... if you imagine something, it'll just happen?

text

[tried]

Here you go.

[... yeah, she was bored, okay.]

text

[duplicitoussight]

[That's... so cute...]

Uwah, you colored it too!! (〃＾▽＾〃)
What are those boxes floating around House 3??
Chocolate? Bricks?

voice;

[copia]

Ah, no one from my world knows they have powers until it appears one day. There is a school for those who want to have better control of them.

locked & voice;

[copia]

[ She decided to give that puzzle a go, and for the past fifteen or so minutes she's redrawn the lines over...

...and over...
...and over...
...and over...

—and now there's a hole in her notebook just great!!! She rips that out for a fresh sheet to continue trying before she growls at herself, and a few minutes later she crumbles up the paper in her hand. ]

There is no answer to this! There's no way you can connect all the houses without at least one house intersecting with another for any of these utilities. Maybe if you go through one of the houses? But I feel like the problem would be easy if that were the case, because then you could connect the other houses just fine if one house had one utility running through it completely, so that can't be it.

My final answer is that this is not solvable. Nope, no way. [ You can't see her but she's shaking her head at the tablet very fiercely as if he could see her. ] And if there is a way I will...I don't know, buy you lunch or bake you cookies or something. [ There is a huff before she mutters to herself. ] There's no way that's possible...stupid puzzle...

it's like, 0.5% locked, uncle is so good at this (1/2)

[itsmagicallydelicious]

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[voice] 2/2

[itsmagicallydelicious]

It's an interesting puzzle, but I feel like you left something out.

[Oh, look, someone you haven't heard from in a while. If he still kind of sounds like a half-squashed toad it's because his vocal cords are crying for exercise! Help him out, OK?]

And that's a pretty specific question about magic.

[Should he be worried here....]

[perdre]

I used to play this puzzle when I was a kid.

[beat.]

Gas isn't provided that way.

voice

[duplicitoussight]

For the sake of the puzzle, let's say it is! Ah, and don't give it away just yet. That'd be no fun.

text;

[scienceinacan]

And why can't it intersect?!

[ I wish I played more Layton games. I FEEL LIKE IF I DID I'D KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS. ]

text;

[duplicitoussight]

Because I said so (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

voice

[boundbyheart]

I am the wind; I get my powers from nothing.

voice

[duplicitoussight]

You're the wind? That's a strange thing to be! How does that work?

[maiinframe]

Thii2 ii2 an extremely iineffiiciient way to u2e energy.

[duplicitoussight]

Oh, you mean this post?
We're free to chat through the network.
And it's for a good cause~~

voice

[breakin_ur_lore]

My foster-father taught me how to use magic. That is - magic that a wizard uses. He helped me with my shaman abilities, but he couldn't do much, since he didn't know how to do them himself. And then my uncle was training me to be a paladin.

voice

[duplicitoussight]

We have quite a lot of wizards here. [It's more to himself than to Med'an.] So you had to figure most of it out on your own? Was magic something you could learn from a textbook?