Post by Beowuuf on Apr 10, 2009 6:27:46 GMT -5
A Kai Lord must be a master of all weaponry, and instinctively know the merits of one weapon to another in any situation. Knowing which weapon is best can be the difference between life and death - for both the Kai Lord and the enemy!
Using your intuition, wild guessing, or more likely some torturous logic and mental leaps, look at the five statements below and create an ordered list of how good one weapon is to another.
And, you know, you can just make a wild guess to grab some points!
The five weapons are (in alphabetical order): Axe, Bow, Dagger, Quarterstaff and Spear. No weapon is identically powered
If you are taking a wild guess, feel free to just post the order from worst to best weapon in the open forum. It could earn you up to five points (one point per correct weapon)!
If you wish to solve the puzzle, please instead PM me your list for up to five points, and also your logical working for up to another five points.
If anyone needs the picture explicitly written out, yell! Otherwise, you all have two weeks (to the end of the decathlon) to wrap your brain around it. Or more likely find the glaring error in my logic.
Good luck!
Edit: And closed.
Using your intuition, wild guessing, or more likely some torturous logic and mental leaps, look at the five statements below and create an ordered list of how good one weapon is to another.
And, you know, you can just make a wild guess to grab some points!
The five weapons are (in alphabetical order): Axe, Bow, Dagger, Quarterstaff and Spear. No weapon is identically powered
If you are taking a wild guess, feel free to just post the order from worst to best weapon in the open forum. It could earn you up to five points (one point per correct weapon)!
If you wish to solve the puzzle, please instead PM me your list for up to five points, and also your logical working for up to another five points.
If anyone needs the picture explicitly written out, yell! Otherwise, you all have two weeks (to the end of the decathlon) to wrap your brain around it. Or more likely find the glaring error in my logic.
Good luck!
Edit: And closed.
Solution (not the only way):
Take the first statement - an axe is worse than two daggers and apply it to the fourth statement.
If an axe and a spear are just as good as three daggers and a quarterstaff, then taking an axe away from the spear, and two daggers away from the other side, then a spear is better than a dagger and/or a quarterstaff
Jump to statement three, an axe and a quarterstaff combined beat a spear. A dagger and quarterstaff combined do not. Therefore, the dagger is worse than the axe.
Move on to the second statement. By itself, it says that the spear and the quarterstaff combined balance each other out around the bow - that one is a better than the bow, and the other is worse in equal measure against the bow. The spear is better than the quarterstaff, so the spear is better than the bow, which is better than the quarterstaff.
Looking at the second and fifth statements, while a spear and quarterstaff balance the two bows, the axe and spear do not. So therefore, an axe is worse than a quarterstaff.
So spear is better than the bow which is better than the quarterstaff which is better than the axe which is better than the dagger.
Take the first statement - an axe is worse than two daggers and apply it to the fourth statement.
If an axe and a spear are just as good as three daggers and a quarterstaff, then taking an axe away from the spear, and two daggers away from the other side, then a spear is better than a dagger and/or a quarterstaff
Jump to statement three, an axe and a quarterstaff combined beat a spear. A dagger and quarterstaff combined do not. Therefore, the dagger is worse than the axe.
Move on to the second statement. By itself, it says that the spear and the quarterstaff combined balance each other out around the bow - that one is a better than the bow, and the other is worse in equal measure against the bow. The spear is better than the quarterstaff, so the spear is better than the bow, which is better than the quarterstaff.
Looking at the second and fifth statements, while a spear and quarterstaff balance the two bows, the axe and spear do not. So therefore, an axe is worse than a quarterstaff.
So spear is better than the bow which is better than the quarterstaff which is better than the axe which is better than the dagger.
