From: JLM@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Subject: Karmak replies to Kahayel's puzzle Message-ID: <92139.084740JLM@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> Date: 18 May 92 16:47:40 GMT References: In article <1992May18.081358.5293@cs.rose-hulman.edu>, opermwb@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Mark Brehob aka. Ruby de Haven) says: > >In (Chua Hak Lien) writes: >> >>"This tale shall be quick and swift. It is a more of a puzzle >>rather than a story, so I shall make it as brief as possible. Hopefully, >>you will not fall asleep before it is concluded. I am too poor to offer >>the one who many solve this puzzle anything, hopefully the satisfaction >>of having come up with the answer will suffice. Now, on with the story... >> >[story deleted] > >>"But that does not concern us. The puzzle is: how did Elhinya know which >>rose to choose, amongst the many on the bush?'" > >The female dwarf turns to Talechaser, still waiting to find the price of a >short ale. After a bit of thought she says "Sir, I can perhaps see a number >of answers. I am no master of flowers, but I believe that a rose closes >itself >at night as do many other flowers. Our friend becoming a bush at the start of >the day, would be open. Is that the answer that you seek? From his table, Karmak the aarakocra replies... "That was a very good guess dear lady, but being a rose fancier myself I can tell you from experience that roses do not close at night, which is the reason why this puzzle *has* an answer. You see, the flowers that were part of the rose bush collected the morning dew. ... But, the husband, having turned into a rose after the sun had risen did not have dropplets of dew in his petals. *He* was the only dried rose in the bush."