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jen_aside

2667: Two Days In February

Feb 05, 2008 19:53

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Comments 6

digoraccoon February 6 2008, 01:57:03 UTC

I don't think I understand this riddle. I might need a picture.

jen_aside February 6 2008, 05:16:53 UTC

AGH ASCII TIME [obviously not to scale]

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/ O O <-- anchors for rope
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/ | | } 120 feet long
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| } cliff face you want to get down = 170 feet
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|The rope is hanging freely, as though underneath a huge archway. You can climb the ropes, but you can't detach the ropes at the top and just climb down the cliff, for instance. The anchors are basically rings stuck in the rock, by the way. Or whatever you think rock climbers use, but they won't come out easily.

digoraccoon February 7 2008, 01:18:42 UTC

Okay. Well by sheer numbers it looks like you can get down 120 feet and then have a 50 foot drop... which is 10 feet higher then what you can survive. I'm assuming you cannot cut a rope so...

Maybe if you tie your shirt and pants to the end of the rope, but I doublt that'll give you that 10feet needed. Hmmm.... not sure how this'll work.

jen_aside February 7 2008, 05:22:32 UTC

You can cut or untie the rope. You just can't do it safely from the ground without climbing up to it, nor can you simply untie both and climb down the arch they're under.

jenova_silver February 6 2008, 04:30:41 UTC

It's the new math! *snort*

jen_aside February 19 2008, 18:36:17 UTC

First, go to the ropes and tie the two ends together TIGHTLY [you don't want them to come loose while you're doing this]. Then, climb all the way to the top of the ropes [it doesn't matter which one you climb] and cut the other rope off from its anchor WITHOUT LETTING IT FALL. Take the cut end and thread it back through the anchor, feeding it all the way back through the anchor until you have the knotted ends sitting at the top.

CAREFULLY climb over to the other rope and cut the first rope free from its anchor. Now you can climb back down the ropes and pull them loose from the anchor from the safety of the ground. But first, you'll take the free anchor and unhook it from the cliff so you'll have something to anchor the 240 feet of rope when you climb down the 170-foot cliff, with rope to spare.