Riddles - Blog Posts
The riddles for tonight’s trick-or-treat are done. It’s by far not my best calligraphy work but for being something done in an hour while under heavy pain medication, it’s pretty good. I had a little accident with the ink at the end so I decided I might as well embrace the messy old scroll look and smear ink everywhere.
The ‘scrolls’ with a seal are riddles from The Hobbit and the other two are easier riddles for the younger kids.
More thoughts on the QSMP 2 (?) teaser
After posting a more detailed analysis covering many different aspects of Quackity's newest teaser, I still have some thoughts about the final few messages which I just want to share here.
MESSAGE FROM THE FEDERATION. [4.30] WE SHALL BE RETURNING SHORTLY. THERE IS WORK TO COMPLETE. YOU WILL HEAR FROM US. [05,00,25]
What I find confusing here is the two... lets call them items.
I assume [4.30] is a time stamp where 4 is the month, april and 30 is the date. This means that here, it is talking about the day the message was broadcasted. The day the teaser was released. Quite obvious so far.
The second 'time stamp' is a lot more cryptic though. [05,00,25]
The easiest assumption is that it's may 2025, but here, the date is the 0th??? This would mean that we HAVE already heard from them. Or maybe the 0th of may is just april the 30th. It could hint towards something being hidden in the video, something we need to find, but I think that is somewhat of a reach. This isn't an ARG (I would guess), you can't wait for a few nerds to take the video apart until you can start with your project so I don't know, but I'll keep my eyes out.
There are even more differences between the two items than I initially thought.
[4.30] and [05,00,25]
1. And most obvious, one has two numbers while the other has three.
2. One uses a dot to divide them, the other uses commas.
3. One has a leading zero (05 and 00), the other doesn't (4).This makes me think that the second is not a date at all. If it is though, it could be the 25th of May (unconnected but it could also be the arrival date of the French streamers to the island which is also in May). But if it was a date, it would be formatted like the other one because it IS like the other one.
This leads me to believe it is something different.
1. A time stamp in the video (the fifth minute and .25 seconds), but I checked and there's nothing out of the ordinary. Just the normal screen and classical music.
2. A location where we receive their messages. Unlikely since this is probably not an ARG. If it is, I wouldn't know where to start searching.
3. A duration. 5 months (and 25 days) is unlikely, wayy too long. 5 weeks and 25 hours too, since there should be something in May. 5 days and 25 minutes, possible but why the specific minutes? Also, this would explain why the date at which the message is sent is at the top, so you know from where to count. Still, if it was a duration it would've just been formatted as [05:00:25], no?
The truth is, I have no idea.
Okay I want more thoughts on the music played in the QSMP teaser.
The first song played is Pachelbel's Canon (Canon in D, P 37). Doesn't seem to have much of a story to it? But I think the main reason it was used is that it's a popular song played at weddings and, the more importantly, funerals.
The second song is from Mozart's Requiem Mass- Lacrimosa. It was written not long before Mozart died, and it literally translates from Latin as "Weeping" or "Tearful". Requiem Mass is just a big piece about death and grief. It's just another funeral song.
SOOOO what does that mean?? Is this quackity's funeral, the federation's, or the island's?? I have so many thoughts that I don't know how to put into words, but if you have ideas, that would be awesome.
oooooh that definitely fits with the whole creepy vibe that's going on in the video
Weeping, tearful and funeral...
To be honest, not really an idea of what to make of that. The only connection I could draw would be the poem which is spoken, which goes on and on and on about how that 'creature' is eating it's own heart and destroying itself.
The funeral part also stands in direct contrast to the Morse, which says things like 'I'm coming back' and the flashing text which literally says 'not over.' To lean completely out of the window, I would say that... the easily visible surrenders being alone, being scared and also maybe that the Federation is no longer (the Federation buildings are completely empty), but the stuff beneath the surface clearly says that someone is planning a comeback.
That way, the music fits with the whole dying, self-destruction theme which is shown through the stuff you can easily see without decrypting morse and stuf. Maybe someone destroyed themselves and now it's their funeral, but actually they're coming back. But who? The players, the Federation? I don't know, but maybe we'll see in the future
A letter for my mutual @vrioloki!
Hey! I've been playing some chess recently, and well, I'm still a bit confused about the rules but I think I'm getting there. So far I've just been playing against myself, but playing against other people would give me important information!
(this is 4:20, I'm sorry lmao)
Anyway! Have fun with this!
This is a riddle. Anyone can try to do it if this comes up on one's dash. Good luck! And please if you're stuck ask for clues
I've got it
After making my life more complicated than I would've needed, I believe I have the correct solution, no doubt thanks to a partner in crime of mine.
The middle sentence is:
Zweibein auf Dreibein vor Keinbein auf Vierbein.
Which translates to:
Two-legged something on three-legged something in front of no-legged something on four-legged something
my translation skills are legendary but it'll make sense in a second
How I figured this out? I didn't, I do admit, I was quite confused, so naturally I tried to automate the process. I wrote a bit of code which would give me every way the first word of the sentence could be interpreted and actually got 'Zweibein' and... for some reason concluded that didn't make sense and moved on. Eventually, I gave it to my partner in crime to read, who figured it out in a short time span.
Great, now we've got the sentence but what does it mean?
Well, the first part is easy. A two-legged creature - human, on a three-legged thing: a stool with three legs. The second part? Not quite as easy.
It turns out similar riddles have been in, for example, The Hobbit, but not the exact wording. Where are a lot of possibilities for a thing with no legs, it's pretty obvious the four-legged thing would be a table. But... what is ON the table?
In the end, we reached the conclusion that the thing on the table would be a thing to eat, since the person is sitting on a stool near the table. Then, what's a food with no legs? 🐟
Ein Zweibein auf dem Dreibein sitzt vor dem Vierbein auf dem ein Keinbein liegt.
Another possible solution for the riddle I came up with while trying to find the answer, but this one is a bit less... straight forward (and just for fun) :D
Are you bored lately? Do you have case at the moment ? Are you aroace ? Do you want a riddle?
Those are many questions for one ask. I am working on a case, but I couldn't solve it yet. It's irritating. I'm waiting for more information about the case from the police and the labs. It's tedious, I've a case but I'm bored with waiting.
I'm always ready for a riddle.
-SH
Ha -
“A man is locked in a room with only a piano. How does he escape?
The man uses a piano “key” to escape. Then he uses religion to escape, then drugs, then a relationship that clearly won’t work out in the long term, then unhealthy food, then rage, then the “key” again, because it’s a cycle, it’s an endless cycle, and he can never truly escape until he accepts that she’s really gone.”