Riddles

[Souper]

Hint: It's related to 3D space.

My guesses:

A vector?

3D coordinates?

KSP's coordinate scheme?

[cantab]

Hint: The person who set the riddle is the only appropriate person to give hints

Anyway, dimensions?

Or just numbers?

[vexx32]

Pi?

10chars

Nope

Hint: It's related to 3D space.

My guesses:

A vector?

3D coordinates?

KSP's coordinate scheme?

Nope

Hint: The person who set the riddle is the only appropriate person to give hints

Anyway, dimensions?

Or just numbers?

Nope

As to the hint super posted, he knows that because that's what I told him after he made that guess (he subsequently deleted his post for some reason).

[Sun]

[humor] I think the answer is confusion. [/humor]

[cantab]

A cube? (Cubic symmetry can actually be defined by four 3-fold rotation axes, there's six faces, not sure about the other bits.)

[Souper]

Cantab, you're getting close, i think.

[Starwhip]

OH! OH!

Vexx is back??!??!?!!?!?

YESH!

Hold on, let me see the riddle...

[vexx32]

A cube? (Cubic symmetry can actually be defined by four 3-fold rotation axes, there's six faces, not sure about the other bits.)

Well done. 'Tis indeed a cube.

Yep, six faces. The second bit about the path referred to the fifth Fibonacci number (8); 8 vertices. The next bit referred to the number 12 (12 edges); 12 is a "supremely composite" number (dude the stuff I can find on Wikipedia xD), I just swapped a couple synonyms for those words in. You know the rest.

OH! OH!

Vexx is back??!??!?!!?!?

YESH!

Hold on, let me see the riddle...

Sorry, you're just too late. Looks like I need to brush up on my riddling skills a bit...

[Souper]

Caaantaaaaab, where are yoooooouuuu?

[cantab]

Up north.

In the ocean or a lake,

Protests and questions are all I'll make,

But in a tank or from a gun,

The war I'll ensure will be won.

[Endersmens]

Um. Shells?

(the joke about a crab being shellfish (selfish) and artillery shells, bullet shells, ect)

[Starwhip]

Um. Shells?

(the joke about a crab being shellfish (selfish) and artillery shells, bullet shells, ect)

Darn, I think that's it.

[Sun]

I think we've solved it.

So, here's my riddle:

What demands an answer, but asks no question?

[Endersmens]

A forumer who still doesn't get this game.

First off, we aren't sure we've solved it yet. cantab must tell us so.

Secondly, if we did solve it, it would be my turn to post a riddle.

I don't mean to sound rude here, but why don't you go read the First page? It'll explain the rules cleared than I can.

[cantab]

Indeed. Good guess, but it's not shells.

[Endersmens]

Darn.

[Sun]

Bullets?

10chars

[cantab]

Bzzzt.

(That means wrong btw)

[Souper]

Submarines?

Underwater tank?

Torpedos?

A nuke?

D-Day?

A naval combat boat?

Spent shells?

A missile?

Soviet russia's cover-up of Vekhoy 1's launch?

Edited September 9, 2014 by Souper

[vexx32]

Hmm. Gunpowder?

[Starwhip]

So it's something that when thrown into the ocean (discarded due to old age, perhaps) raises environmental concerns. And it seems to be related to battle i.e. bullets.

A bomb?

[Red Iron Crown]

In the ocean or a lake,

Protests and questions are all I'll make,

But in a tank or from a gun,

The war I'll ensure will be won.

Gas?

HeyLookAtTheseCharacters,ForumSoftware

[Starwhip]

Gas was my next-best guess, too, but it didn't make as much sense.

But then, neither does a bomb, because it would be hard to fire either from a gun. (Handheld, at least.)

[vexx32]

Ah. Environmental concerns. Weapons.

Radioactive waste? Depleted uranium is a byproduct of the decaying of some radioactive wastes, and it is used to tip bullets and shells, because it is incredibly hard -- just about any armament is vulnerable to something tipped with depleted uranium.

[Red Iron Crown]

Ah. Environmental concerns. Weapons.

Radioactive waste? Depleted uranium is a byproduct of the decaying of some radioactive wastes, and it is used to tip bullets and shells, because it is incredibly hard -- just about any armament is vulnerable to something tipped with depleted uranium.

That's a good guess, DU has been used in tank armor too IIRC.