What Do You Think...

ArlanKels·Apr 6, 2016·1 votes·453 views

Imagine if you will that you wake up in the middle of a room that is ten feet cubed, with a small table in the center that has a box and a vial sitting on top of the box. The vial is made of glass, two inches in height and has a width of half an inch.

There is only one door without a knob or hinges located that leads out of the room that has a plaque on it. The rest of the chamber is bare of any type of markings, cracks, or openings. The plaque on the door reads "The solution is in your hands."

What do you think the answer is to get out of the room?

15 Comments

Kitty DarkstarApr 6, 20161 votes

Do I have a key in my hand?

ArlanKelsApr 6, 20161 votes

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Do I have a key in my hand?

Nope. You have nothing on you except for your basic clothing. No jewelry or anything else like that.

JayHog1992Apr 6, 20161 votes

A riddle? Never good with those...

Kitty DarkstarApr 6, 20161 votes

Can I use the contents of the vial to open/destroy the door?

ArlanKelsApr 6, 20161 votes

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Can I use the contents of the vial to open/destroy the door?

The vial is empty. You can hit the door with it but that'll probably just break it.

Kitty DarkstarApr 6, 20162 votes

Then I'm eating the box!

ArlanKelsApr 6, 20161 votes

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Then I'm eating the box!

You will most likely break your teeth before successfully eating the box. Unless you're Gluttony or some other mystical individual...at which point you'll just fill your belly.

Kitty DarkstarApr 6, 20162 votes

I've got strong teeth

When I've finished with the box I'm eating the door and escaping. Then I'm going back in and eating the vial.

SkelenthApr 6, 20161 votes

Can I kick in the door?

I just realized that both me and the table are in the centre of the room. Am I the table? Am I merged with the table? Is the table in my hands? And, most importantly: can I smash the door in with the table?

ArlanKelsApr 6, 20161 votes

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Can I kick in the door?

I just realized that both me and the table are in the centre of the room. Am I the table? Am I merged with the table? Is the table in my hands? And, most importantly: can I smash the door in with the table?

The door is immoveable, nigh indestructible given everything at your disposal.

You are not merged with the table but merely next to it. It is a pretty ordinary wooden table.

EmbertineApr 6, 20161 votes

If the door has no hinges or knobs, then that means it I could either simply push it down and I could walk out, since there are no hinges holding it up, or that it is barred on the other side, which would hold it up and prevent me from opening it. After all in order for it to actually be a door and not simply part of the wall looking like a door, it would have to be its own entity sitting within a door shaped hole within the wall, just like all other doors are.

So my answer is this, if the door is not barred on the other side, I will simply push the door down and walk out.

However if it is in fact barred on the other side, then that means the glass vial is in fact my only option for leaving the room. I will pour the "solution" within the vial onto the lock I presume is keeping the box closed, allowing me access to the contents within the box which I also presume will be my means to escape.

If however the box does not have a lock or hinges for me to melt with the solution, then I will instead make an opening in the top of the box by pouring the solution onto the top edges very carefully so as to eat away at it until I can open it, thus allowing me into the box which I presume to hold my means to escape this room.

ArlanKelsApr 6, 20161 votes

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If the door has no hinges or knobs, then that means it I could either simply push it down and I could walk out, since there are no hinges holding it up, or that it is barred on the other side, which would hold it up and prevent me from opening it. After all in order for it to actually be a door and not simply part of the wall looking like a door, it would have to be its own entity sitting within a door shaped hole within the wall, just like all other doors are.

So my answer is this, if the door is not barred on the other side, I will simply push the door down and walk out.

However if it is in fact barred on the other side, then that means the glass vial is in fact my only option for leaving the room. I will pour the "solution" within the vial onto the lock I presume is keeping the box closed, allowing me access to the contents within the box which I also presume will be my means to escape.

If however the box does not have a lock or hinges for me to melt with the solution, then I will instead make an opening in the top of the box by pouring the solution onto the top edges very carefully so as to eat away at it until I can open it, thus allowing me into the box which I presume to hold my means to escape this room.

The door is solid and barred. The box has no visible means to open it, though there is a hole that the vial sits in on the top. Peering in the hole results in nothing gained, but also nothing lost.

There is nothing in the vial.

EmbertineApr 6, 20161 votes

In my hands you say? An empty vial you say? A box which has a hole of which said vial fits into yet there is nothing of which I can see inside?

Well then! This points to a rather simple answer! (I did watch the SAW movies which this seems similar to, but much less death orientated.)

I will bite hand, allowing the blood that's "in my hands" to fill the vial while it sits in the hole on top of the box. This I presume will activate a scale and weights that will open the door.

(Well either I would fill it with blood or simply urinate in it, saving myself some pain and blood loss. Of course that would depend entirely upon if I was able to urinate at the time.)

Then again if it is a scale and weight system then I could simply press the vile down to activate it. However if the vial had to maintain a certain amount of wait to keep the system activated and not close the exit, then I would have to resort to filling the vial instead.

ArlanKelsApr 6, 20161 votes

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In my hands you say? An empty vial you say? A box which has a hole of which said vial fits into yet there is nothing of which I can see inside?

Well then! This points to a rather simple answer! (I did watch the SAW movies which this seems similar to, but much less death orientated.)

I will bite hand, allowing the blood that's "in my hands" to fill the vial while it sits in the hole on top of the box. This I presume will activate a scale and weights that will open the door.

(Well either I would fill it with blood or simply urinate in it, saving myself some pain and blood loss. Of course that would depend entirely upon if I was able to urinate at the time.)

Then again if it is a scale and weight system then I could simply press the vile down to activate it. However if the vial had to maintain a certain amount of wait to keep the system activated and not close the exit, then I would have to resort to filling the vial instead.

Congratulations, you figured out how to open the door :o The "solution" was indeed your blood in your hands :D (though blood is not only considered a solution but also other things)