[Puzzle 005]

[hisapprentice]

Don't worry, everybody who's new! It really doesn't take that long to get used to living here. It's sort of scary actually... But you know, I've been here for a few "experiments" now and it's really not that bad!

There are a few people to watch out for, I suppose.

...Does anybody want to hear a puzzle? Oh, or, does anybody know a good puzzle? I'd love to hear a few from other worlds! Sometimes I feel like I've done all the puzzles on Earth already, and I'm not even that old...

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[hisapprentice]

I'm Luke! [Yes of course he will share a puzzle. To do otherwise would be so ungentlemanly.]

Mr. Red, Mr. White, and Mr. Green were going to lunch together. One wore a red hat, one wore a white hat, and one wore a green hat. "I say, Mr. Green!" said the man in the red hat, "Have you noticed that none of us are wearing the hat with a color that matches our name?"

What color hat is each man wearing?

[hisapprentice]

That's great! You got it on the first try.

I wouldn't recommend touching a hot lightbulb, though.

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[hisapprentice]

There's one I'm trying to solve right now. It doesn't sound at all like the puzzles I usually do.

[subsultive]

It does seem like a pretty bad idea... Can I tell a riddle too?

[hisapprentice]

Sure! I'd love to hear one.

[subsultive]

Okay, let's see... [Something pretty easy to start out with, maybe? But that lightbulb riddle hadn't been too easy.

Wordplay it is.]

What has one letter and starts with an E?

[hisapprentice]

Hmm...one letter with an E...

An envelope!

[Come now, Luca. You are dealing with an apprentice puzzle master gentleman. Who likes to stuff his face.]

[subsultive]

[Does he want to become part of the Innocence cast they all stuff their faces He'll just have to step up his game, then! Even if Luke looks pretty young.]

That's right. I guess that was kind of easy, huh? [Your move, Luke.]

[phantom_thief_freyr]

It does. And very well, you can hardly tell who he is.

[thebellthatbinds]

It's nice to meet you Luke. [Humming softly at the puzzle she rubs her chin as she thinks it out.]

Now...hm, if Red-hat is speaking to Mr. Green that means Mr. Green's hat must be white since the red-hat is already accounted for so Mr. Red...would be wearing a green-hat which reveals the red-hat owner to be Mr. White...?

[That makes sense right? She didn't fuddle anything?]

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[ahappylie]

Oh? May I hear it?

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[hisapprentice]

Sure, but don't tell me the answer if you've heard it before.

"Joe, wearing a mask and carrying an empty sack, leaves his house. An hour later he returns with a full sack. He goes into a room and turns out the lights."

[hisapprentice]

[THIRTEEN, not so young all right? There are heroes younger than him floating around this place!]

You have three holes in your window frame that make a sound every time the wind blows. It's keeping you awake all night. If the holes are spaced the same distance apart in the frame, and you only have two cotton balls that can fill holes, where should you put them?

[hisapprentice]

You've got it!

Of course, if they're gentleman they'll probably have to take their hats off during their meal.

[hisapprentice]

[And yet, this is not helping. The real problem is going to be that the answer is something Luke probably doesn't do.]

Well...well is it his room?

[subsultive]

[Yeah, sure!]

Um... Hm... Why not just rip both cotton balls in half to make a third, and then plug all three of them up like that?

[That is so not the answer.]

[phantom_thief_freyr]

Of course it's his room. Where else would a person go to sleep at night?

[thebellthatbinds]

Naturally, any gentleman would know to do that. [Hurray she got it right!]

Now I've got a little riddle for you, "if you have it you want to share it, but if you share it you haven't got it." What is it?

[hisapprentice]

Oh, so it's a bedroom...

...So he puts on a mask over his whole face, fills a sack all the way to the top, and then turns off the light in his bedroom?

[hisapprentice]

It sort of sounds like a secret to me.

[hisapprentice]

Nope! They wouldn't be big enough that way. Besides, there's an easier way to do it with just two.

wow i'm really awful at riddles i shouldn't have done this

[subsultive]

This one's harder... [Hmmm.] In the left and right holes, maybe?

no no it's half a trick question!

[hisapprentice]

How about a hint?

you don't understand i'm really stupid when it comes to this stuff

[subsultive]

If you wouldn't mind.

lies you are very creative

[hisapprentice]

All right!

If you really think about it, there's a way to block the sound that doesn't require touching the window at all!