Scavenger Hunt II

[Hooves]

I don't think the first riddle is ever going to be solved Mathmatics have never been my advantage But I'm surprised that noone has taken the lead this far and just kept it as a stalemate.. The first riddle may even have discouraged other participaters thinking that the other riddles are just going to be as hard at the first riddle.

[felix]

Originally Posted by Hooves

I don't think the first riddle is ever going to be solved Mathmatics have never been my advantage

As per the hint, you can solve it with out math too.

Originally Posted by Hooves

But I'm surprised that noone has taken the lead this far and just kept it as a stalemate..

Is it really a stalemate? Until someone solves the first the current scores are not a true stalemate.

Originally Posted by Hooves

The first riddle may even have discouraged other participaters thinking that the other riddles are just going to be as hard at the first riddle.

Some of the other riddles were harder IMO. NW thinks so too (he told me in a pm when I gave it to him).

[Hooves]

Originally Posted by felix

As per the hint, you can solve it with out math too.

Waaah... Its so confusing

Is it really a stalemate? Until someone solves the first the current scores are not a true stalemate.

If someone solves your riddle, I will praise them...

Some of the other riddles were harder IMO. NW thinks so too (he told me in a pm when I gave it to him).

The way I'm basing difficulty is how long they take to get solved and yours still hasn't

[milan kyuubi]

First riddle

http://forums.animesuki.com/member.php?u=32249
http://forums.animesuki.com/member.php?u=63563

[felix]

@milan kyuubi: I'd say they are good guesses but not correct, sorry.

Originally Posted by Hooves

The way I'm basing difficulty is how long they take to get solved and yours still hasn't

No you are wrong here. All riddles, except this one, have had a maximum of 2 weeks solving time. For example Zizi’s riddle might still be ongoing as well if not for that. I think NW wants to experiment to see how a riddle behaves if left alone for a long time so that future contests can be more streamline.

Originally Posted by Hooves

If someone solves your riddle, I will praise them...

I don’t know about other riddle crafters feel about their riddles but I, personally, want people to solve it. I would feel a little disappointed if by the end of the contest if nobody solves it. That said I’d pm NW with more hints for you guys but I can’t think of anything that wouldn’t just be rephrasing of existent hints or otherwise just plain spoil it.

[Haak]

Originally Posted by milan kyuubi

First riddle

http://forums.animesuki.com/member.php?u=32249
http://forums.animesuki.com/member.php?u=63563

Did i miss something? Since when did cats come into this? Okay fine, my guess is:
http://forums.animesuki.com/member.php?u=77043

[felix]

Originally Posted by Haak

Did i miss something? Since when did cats come into this? Okay fine, my guess is:
http://forums.animesuki.com/member.php?u=77043

Nope, not it.

[brocko]

I hope the answers to the first riddle isn't given pre-maturely before the contest is up. I havn't had a chance to have a good go at it yet, but i will do in a months or so's time when my uni semester is over! Not sure whether i want to though, given the length of the riddle itself haha

Originally Posted by Kairin

Please do

I assume this thread was the right answer, since it was the one that fit the riddle the most: http://forums.animesuki.com/showthre...=31028&page=25

The other three links i posted were a failsafe incase it wasn't right.
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=31028
http://forums.animesuki.com/forumdisplay.php?f=52
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=31021

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"I have opened Pandora's Box that freed a God,
Something to regret for the next six years and eight months."

Haruhi is God and was "freed" when the anime began airing in April 2006 ("the opening of Pandora's box, that freed a God"). It's May 2011 now, so not quite six years and eight months after it originally aired, only a little over 5 yet so far.
However CA's post up top of the page in here is dated 2006-08-29. "Six years and eight months" if you count from or ignore the 2000.

"Now I seek the sticking place, where it may not follow,"

Sticking place implies that the answer thread is stickied.

"But there are five and twenty paths, and the God can do anything,"

"Five and Twenty." 5 + 20 = 25, hence page 25 of the thread: http://forums.animesuki.com/showthre...=31028&page=25.
"the God can do anything" refers to Haruhi's godlike ability.

"Manipulates and alters everything, what am I to trust?"

Another line that alludes to Haruhi's godlike powers.

"It never seems to retire..."

Haruhi forums may go down to the Older Series forum, but never does it actually fall into the retired section.

"But, what's this... with a second glance, the one path I require!
No arguing, no debate, I'll follow the path."

The Q and A thread has no "arguements" or "debates" (or is not meant to anyway). Just straight up questions and answers, forging the "one [single factual] path required" if you will in the form of the thread.

"So, a conundrum of sorts; what solutions will I find,
And will they ease my troubled mind?"

Questions posted in the thread are "conundrums", while "solutions" are the answers to the posted questions. These questions "trouble your mind" enough that you ask them, yet you have no reassurance whether they will be adequately answered if at all, hence you don't know "what solutions you may find" or whether it will "ease your troubled mind" at all or not.

[Kotohono]

Originally Posted by felix

I don’t know about other riddle crafters feel about their riddles but I, personally, want people to solve it. I would feel a little disappointed if by the end of the contest if nobody solves it. That said I’d pm NW with more hints for you guys but I can’t think of anything that wouldn’t just be rephrasing of existent hints or otherwise just plain spoil it.

I would agree with you. As I wanted someone to solve it too, because it would be a bit boring for the effort to be put into it just to leave everyone confused .

[Reckoner]

I think rather than giving new hints for riddle 1, it would simply be beneficial for perhaps collecting them into one post, perhaps even restating the hints with different words.

[Dist]

^Indeed. A bit like Scrabble I suppose? If you look at the letters, and can't come up with anything you'll mix them in new order and then you may be able to come up with something again.

Also boo @ latest riddle. Yet another riddle that no one could solve if they had not seen the particular series. Or is Haruhi and her powers supposed to be some kind of common knowledge?

[Kotohono]

Originally Posted by Dist

Also boo @ latest riddle. Yet another riddle that no one could solve if they had not seen the particular series. Or is Haruhi and her powers supposed to be some kind of common knowledge?

Given the commonness of "Haruhiism" around here it would be fairly difficult to be unaware of Haruhi being a sorta of god. Compared to the details in the other series based riddles this one is something a lot more people have knowledge of ,

[NightWish]

Originally Posted by brocko

http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=31028

I'll give it to you, since you've basically got the correct thread and all of the details correct. Page 25 wasn't in the original link I was given (it was a reference to the number of threads seen while navigating), but your explanation about the airing dates was basically spot on to the reasoning I was given. The coincidence with the post-date for the first post of the page is remarkable.

Originally Posted by Dist

Also boo @ latest riddle. Yet another riddle that no one could solve if they had not seen the particular series.

I can only work with the riddles supplied...

Originally Posted by monster

Will the next nine riddles be harder?

Not sure. I'm a little very disorganised. I've either lost a bunch of them or had more repeat entries (i.e. two or more riddles from one person) than I thought I had, because I think I've the riddles I've got left are all by people who've had riddles posted already...

Anyone reading this who hasn't had a riddle posted yet, but knows they submitted one, please PM me.

Originally Posted by monster

Were you expecting someone to take the lead?

I imagine someone will by the end, but if not I'll just have to set them another challenge.

Originally Posted by monster

At this point, do you expect the first riddle to be solved?

Don't know at this point. It is solvable but short of brute force searching I think it requires a leap of (mathematical) imagination that no one has yet demonstrated.

Originally Posted by monster

Will there be a riddle that monster could solve?

Hopefully

[Haladflire65]

Wild guess for now... I need to get myself in the right direction >.<

http://forums.animesuki.com/showthre...t=latin+arabic

[monster]

http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=74614

infinite and finite within might refer to her memory storage and the number of books she has stored. But yeah, I don't know if she actually fits the other parts of the riddle since I never got pass the first series and even that one I don't remember much.

[Reckoner]

Maybe it's just the forum itself.

http://forums.animesuki.com/index.php

It's finite in the sense that there is a finite number of posts. It's infinite in the sense that there is an infinite amount of posts to be had.

A forum has latin roots (ancient rome), though i'm not too sure about arabic.

Not sure about it being eccentric or even.

[felix]

Gonna throw the wiki as a wild guess…

http://wiki.animesuki.com/

[CrowKenobi]

Perhaps this character fits the riddle:

http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=65006

[Rennir]

No correct answers yet. Sorry

[Revelation]

I'm really not sure on this one in the slightest... But here's some random guesses for 12. I would explain but I'm pretty exhausted right now.
http://forums.animesuki.com/forumdisplay.php?f=107
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=101032
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=85196
http://forums.animesuki.com/forumdisplay.php?f=108