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[Paranoid Android]

Just thought I'd share a riddle. Basically you're stuck in an enclosed room - 4 walls, a roof, a floor. No windows or doors. In the centre of this room is a square, wooden table, and laying on the table is a sharp pointed butter knife (blunt blade, sharp point).

So how do you escape the room? I'll post clues later. But you WILL roll your eyes at the eventual answer *shifty eyes*

[HerNibs]

Stand on the table and go over the wall.

You're on a second floor room.  Floor is a roof to the room below.




Nibs

[Still Waters]

Hi PA, you've said no windows. Does that include a skylight?

I'm thinking the person stands on top of the table, reaches up to the skylight and climbs out

Oh! wait a minute, you've said 'roof' not a ceiling so is this an attic/loft room? In which case the person can get out through the trap door on the floor?

[Beckys_Mom]

Is this one of those - If you cut something in half, two halves make a hole ...type riddles?

[Paranoid Android]

Nibs and SW, there is no way to get out of the room by standing on the table.

BM - you're on the right track, but how do get there, a butter knife can't cut through a solid table

Edited by Paranoid Android, 18 January 2013 - 11:56 PM.

[Beckys_Mom]

Paranoid Android, on 18 January 2013 - 11:55 PM, said:

BM - you're on the right track, but how do get there, a butter knife can't cut through a solid table

Ok, add more clues  and see how it goes  .. This has kindled my interest lol

[Paranoid Android]

Beckys_Mom, on 18 January 2013 - 11:57 PM, said:

Ok, add more clues  and see how it goes  .. This has kindled my interest lol

What CAN you do with a sharp-pointed butter knife?

[Likely Guy]

You... lethaly stab yourself. Whereby you escape the room by creating a hole, in yourself?

I might need another clue.

[Beckys_Mom]

Paranoid Android, on 18 January 2013 - 11:58 PM, said:

What CAN you do with a sharp-pointed butter knife?

You can pick a hole in the table and climb through? OR ( this is morbid ) kill yourself and your soul can escape anything?  lol

Edited by Beckys_Mom, 19 January 2013 - 12:36 AM.

[Paranoid Android]

Try for something a little less lethal, but yes, the first step requires a small level of self harm

[Beckys_Mom]

Paranoid Android, on 19 January 2013 - 09:42 AM, said:

Try for something a little less lethal, but yes, the first step requires a small level of self harm

Ok lets try this... You take the butter knife with the sharp point.. You prick yourself with the point creating pain  (  Window pane  ) and you smash the pane, and you're out .. Sorry PA that's all l can come up with if it involves a little self harm  lol

Edited by Beckys_Mom, 19 January 2013 - 12:43 PM.

[Paranoid Android]

Heh, I suppose that'd work. But it seems strange too specifically clarify a window pane. Aternatively if you prick yourself you now have a sore (saw), and I suppose the rest of the riddle answers itself.

[Beckys_Mom]

Paranoid Android, on 19 January 2013 - 08:39 PM, said:

Heh, I suppose that'd work. But it seems strange too specifically clarify a window pane. Aternatively if you prick yourself you now have a sore (saw), and I suppose the rest of the riddle answers itself.

Hang on a sec..  Window pane sounds like pain..  You have - a sore and that sounds like a saw ?  You made that riddle up yourself, didn't you? lol     I have an Irish accent, and when I saw the word  SORE it sounds nothing like the word SAW  lol

Before you mentioned a little self harm.. I was thinking - Ok PA has a room with no way out, lets work with the clues and what's in the room he speaks of A wooden table with a knife.. Hmm lets work with that..I then thought  What about IF you take the butter knife that has the sharp point..  ( remember there is a wooden table )  So you pick at the wooden table, that creates  SAW dust, you grab the SAW and saw the table in two - Two halves make a hole ? But then you said a little self harm so I scrapped that idea...

I am going to say this to you and then I am going to run........PA........ my answer to the riddle  made more sense  

*runs outta there fast.before my tummy gets sore saw laughing lol.*

Edited by Beckys_Mom, 19 January 2013 - 11:50 PM.

[ealdwita]

Another ten minutes of my life down the drain!

[freetoroam]

use the point of the butter knife to unscrew the screws holding the roof on, prize up roof, lower table to floor below and jump down on it. You may break leg on way down hence self harm.

Any more clues?