hisapprentice | [Puzzle 009]

[Everyone around Luke is so sad lately. Some of the things he's heard about people going home are just heartbreaking.

It's hard to be sad about people leaving when no one from the world you belong to is here, particularly not anyone close. Instead, Luke has been trying to come up with a way to pass the time.]

Would anyone like to hear a puzzle? [Aware of how similar that sounds to someone he does miss, Luke winces a little and turns the book upright instead of flat.] I'll give everybody different ones this time, so you can't overhear the right answer and have it spoiled.

Or let's play a game! ...Uhm, but it is a puzzle game. Still, if we do it right everyone could play a little if they wanted to.

I'll give everyone a puzzle, and the first person to solve it with the right answer gets to give out the next one, for someone else to try to solve. We'll have to be careful about not stealing a chance from someone if we know the answer and they don't... [We. More like Luke will need to be careful.] But I want to try it! We'll just all have to be gentlemanly with each other.

Oh. Uh. And, um, ladylike. S-Sorry.

[[ooc: LET'S DO BOTH. There will be a thread in this post for the puzzle round robin, and anyone who would like to join in can do so! Luke will start, and the first correct guesser gets to post his/her own puzzle (in a new sub-thread under the 'puzzle game' heading, to help with keeping things noticeable!) for the group to try to solve next! This can keep going on, so if you miss out on one, no worries - just try for the next one! You are not limited to wordplay either; go ahead with math puzzles or images or anything, really, that is confounding and must be solved!

Luke will do his best not to just answer them all. He's solved a lot of puzzles.

If you'd like your character to just hear a puzzle of their own (or engage Luke in some one-on-one solving competition), then bypass the puzzle game thread and tag away. ~~Secret vessel for my love of riddles and brainteasers go.~~]]

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I know plenty of math puzzles...but you've got to get the right answer first. Sorry, it isn't one pound.

What... really?

But if one and...

Oh!

Is one half? And the soda is 2 and 1/2?

That's right! Good job.

Hah~! I guess that was actually trickier than I thought!

Do you have anymore? I'll be smarter next time, yoi!

Of course I have more. Let's see, something else about numbers...hmm...

Oh! Here's a good one. A man went shopping and was looking at several of a certain item. When the sales clerk asked to help him, the man said, "How much for one?" The clerk answered that one would be 3 pounds.

"What about 15?" Fifteen would be six pounds. "Well, what will it cost me if I want 437?"

"That will be nine pounds," said the clerk.

What was the man buying?

Ehhhh? That's really weird pricing!

Okay let me think...

Sometimes they give really big discounts if you buy a lot of something, but that's still crazy!

Even if you were buying a pet or something and they wanted to unload--

Oh! Is it fish? Like how if you have one really big rare one they'll cost a lot, but lots of little ones are cheaper!

[And that would be Marco giving away that even teeny tiny, he's a total Mama bird in looking after the crew.]

Er...no, it's not fish. [What are you talking about, kid?] It's something a lot smaller than fish.

Ah... I don't know.

[Thinking this over hard.] Can I get a hint?

Sure! Let's see... buying 15 is the same price as buying 25, or 40, or even 99.

Grapes?

Wait. Is it food at all?

Haha, you're right, it's not food. I don't know if you could buy any of this at a supermarket.

[Now he's thinking too.]

Something that's the same price for 1 as 14. Same price for 15 as 99...

But not food, yoi.

Paper? Bullets?

[Probably way off another planet.]

Oh- no, wait. 14 and 15 are the same price! This...is a really big hint, but buying any from 10 to 99 are the same price. 100 is more.

Ahhh sorry, I don't think I get it. Is it a pun on weight or the way berri -- I mean money, works there?

Nope. ...But maybe it's something you don't have where you're from. If it is, sorry I gave you a puzzle about it. Do you want to know?

Yes please!

It might be something we have and I just couldn't think of it, after all.

They're house numbers. You know, for an address.

[Admittedly this isn't something he's familiar with.]

Eh?

[Blank stare at you Luke.] Ohhhhh like ship room numbers! [Giggles.] That's clever!

I suppose. I don't know very much about ships.

Do you know any?

Uh... not any puzzles, but I know some riddles! Do those count?

Of course! Riddles are just a puzzle with words.

If a rooster laid an egg at the top of a roof, what side does the egg roll off of?

Hmm. Well, I've got to ask if it's a slanted roof first.

[He knows this one. He's playing along.]

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