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RIDDLE: a guy with a rope and a statue in a pit...?
There's this guy, and he's got a rope that's 100 yards long that's tied to a tree at the edge of this pit. He's got to get to the center of the pit to this statue for some reason. (I forgot that part) the pit is a almost bottomless pit but the statue is on this pillar that comes up in exactly the center of the pit. the pit is round and 75 yards across. i'm sure he can climbv the rope to teh statue but I can't think of how he could get the rope to the statue. The riddle says that its impossible to throw the rope, so how does he get it there?
please help!!
oh yeah, its a magic rope that the rope gets shorter by 1 yard every minute so HURRY!!!
bookluvr315 got it close --
You didn't mention anything else, so I'm guessing that the tree is the only thing you can tie the rope to.
In that case, walk ALL THE WAY around the circle. When you get back to the tree, the rope will be looped around the statue. Tie the rope to the tree and climb across to the statue.
Hurry, though, because at the rate of 4 miles per hour (a brisk walk), you will need 2 minutes to get around the circle (235 yard --or-- 0.134 mile circumference x 4m/hr), and after tying the rope to the tree, you'll only have 20 minutes before the rope gets short enough to come untied from the tree (assuming that you use 3 yards looping the rope around the statue AND tying it to the tree).
Once you're at the center of the pit, retie the rope to the statue so that if it DOES get too short and comes untied from the tree, you can still get back from the center. But, again, you'll have to hurry, because you'll only have just over an hour (62.5 minutes) to do the entire thing before the rope gets too short to even reach the statue in the center so that you can climb back.
Of course, the times before the rope gets too short and unties itself include how much time it takes for the man to figure out the solution, so they might be even less than figured here.
***NOTE: This is an egyptian riddle, where there is a statue of an ankh in the center of the pit, and on it hangs the key to the cell where the man's lover is kept. It has a ticking clock in it to force the reader to time him/herself while solving it.
I believe Discover magazine published it at one time as one of the riddles in the back of the magazine, but that was many years ago, and I can't remember which issue that was.
Hop this helped you (in enough time for you to reach the statue...)
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