Tytlal designed test OK... I'm thinking of using this as a test at the Rousit Uplift Ceremony: ------------- You are a Rousit in a party of ten Rousits. Since you can't speak, the tytlal are going to work on an equal level and only give you instructions using pantomime and hand signals. Only one er needs to pass the test and the entire party moves on. Every rousit in the party that fails has to drop out. There are three cream pies on a table. Five meters away is another table. Both tables have stacks of small towls, smaller than a pie. Anytime a towl is used, another one is put on the stack.
One er must transport all three pies from one table to another. At the same time. There are small spikes on the bottom of the metal rims. If touched, a shock is delivered that's strong enough to make you drop the pie. You can lift or move the pie from the edge of the rim. A tytlal points out that the hands cannot touch the actual pie. He points from the wrist to the tip of the fingers. If a pie is lifted up, one can see that the bottom is made out of glass, in a slightly concave cone, and it has a rectangular pattern in the center. There are also three casters on the bottom and only after you have lifted up a pie to look, it's demonstrated that this means that a pie cannot be balanced on your head. If any part of a pie touches either table or the ground inbetween, you're disqualified. All of each pie must rest on the other table when you're done. How do you do it? ------I'd rather see if you come up with an original answer, but after a spoiler space, I have two answers below. William Taylor Spunky.... Spanky........ Spielberg.............. SPOILER.......... (There, I finally got it right.) S P O I L U R K E R Hey you, get out of this email! S p o i l e r (That's better.) Answer one: An unexpected solution from the government sponsored Rousit. (The ones with humor being bred out of them.) Two pies are slid to the edge of the table and are picked up from the center of the glass. The rousit then leans forward and puts his elbows on the table. Another rousit balances the third pie between the two forearms and the chest. It's legal because as the elbows are on the table, one rousit _is_ transporting the three pies from table to table. Answer two: The one the Tytlal wanted. As only the hand cannot touch the pie, the first two pies are still held from the glass bottom. The rousit then leans forward, plants his or her face right into the third pie and clamps their mouth down onto the hidden glass knob. When they get to the other tapbe, the rest of the party carefully use the small towls to wipe off any pie that remains on the face. Then the used towls are carefully placed clean side down on the table. Too silly? Or too convoluted to expect a first stage being to be able to figure it out? Vilyehm Teighlore
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