[wreck-it-duck virus]

[elloran]

How can one politely tell an Inquestor-to-Be to think harder? This is the fourth one who cannot solve a simple makrugh puzzle. I understand I am more difficult than my predecessors, but when one plays this game one expects puzzles!

Bah. Simplifying things for fools was never my forte. Does anyone have suggestions for easy riddles? Then I can just send them on to Kaaree and let him harangue them into quitting. I don't have the heart to disappoint them.

Comments

[sugar_and_spice_witch]

You could always give them cliche riddles like the that goes "I walk on four legs at dawn, two legs at noon, and three legs at evening, what am I?" Of course, if you want to bore the player with that kind of riddle, it's not much of a game, is it?

[elloran]

Perhaps. But I've tried riddles, and even when I give them optional answers they still seem to fail.

[sugar_and_spice_witch]

Then fail them. You're too soft.

[elloran]

But games are for fun and learning, correct? What is the point of a game if no one can win?

[sugar_and_spice_witch]

They should do better if they want to win. You're the one who called it a simple puzzle. That means it should be perfectly solvable, right?

[elloran]

Well of course. But it is my game, so perhaps I am unjustly biased.

[sugar_and_spice_witch]

If they can't even get easy riddles like that right, the problem isn't with your challenges.

[elloran]

Perhaps we should be in a different venue.

[sugar_and_spice_witch]

One with fewer idiots? I can't say my own game wouldn't benefit from smarter players.

[elloran]

Indeed. There are many of my kind who have no problems with my riddles. I wonder if there is some way to move our games?

[sugar_and_spice_witch]

Would be nice if that was possible.

[elloran]

Are you also unsatisfied?