Tuesday 15 March 2011

Burnt Island

Answer to last puzzle: "Swap camels." The will only stated that the one whose CAMEL finished last, not the rider!

That one was a personal favourite of mine! I first heard it a long time ago when I was in summer school taking an English course. I got too hung up over the "only two words" aspect of it to focus on the actual puzzle! Great job to those who got it!

You are on an island that is 1 km long and 1km wide, covered with nothing by dried, dead vegetation. Suddenly it catches fire at one end of the island and a strong wind is blowing it towards you rapidly, burning the whole width of the island. There's no beach, only sheer cliffs, and the sea is infested with sharks. What can you do?

35 comments:

  1. cliffhanging your way down would be my answer

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  2. Quickly construct a huge kite out of the dead vegetation around me. Jump off the cliff and the strong wind shall carry me to safety.

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  3. I guess I'd either jump through the firewall or, if it's too big/strong/whatever, I'd set the other side of the island on fire, so there is a fireblocker and nothing left to burn, like they do it in forest fires..

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  4. Man I was never good at these.

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  5. Call the firebrigade who fly in and drop thousands of gallons of water on to the fire.

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  6. god i nearly got the last one. i was so damn close :(

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  7. Commenting for the solution! Get in the God damn water?

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  8. Forgot about the sharks, lol

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  9. Pull up the vegetation in a area around where I am going to lay and create a "firebreak"

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  10. That last one was very tricky.

    I'd like to know how I got on an island like that in the first place. The only thing I can think of wait until it gets to the very far tip where you're standing, run through the line, and run as far back along the island as you can. By the time it gets to you, the fire should be less at the other end. hopefully. That's all I got.

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  11. Burn the grass below wind, stand on burned patch, win!

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  12. Run towards the fire like a boss

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  13. Keep up your shit and release one giant blurping fart at the fire so that strong wind will turn the fire.

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  14. this is a loose, loose situation so ill probably just die!

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  15. Scrape up the dead, dried vegetation and fling it off the cliff! Hurray I'm saved!
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  16. You never said I don't have a helicopter to fly off in.

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  17. That camel one is one of my favorites, never heard of the island one though. Looking forward to hearing the answer

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  18. run to the northern or southern tip of the island

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  19. run towards it and hopefully the wind will extinguish the fire, by the time it'll get to you. (btw I fixed the image in my blog, if you want to still check it out)

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  20. Clear as much vegetation out of the way to make a safe zone

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  21. I go to the wall of fire and jump through it to the other side, where there is only slightly warm soil and ashes.

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  22. this is a very interesting blog following back

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  23. clear out a path of the dried dead vegetation?

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  24. hang off the side of the cliff until it passes :D

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  25. Jump the fire!! too easy...great puzzles btw, following to find out what the answer ACTUALLY is!

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  26. quickly run through the fire to the un-burning part of the island? im stumped

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