I see he's changed his name to GraniteArse2003 now, thus ironing out all confusion.

This Malefact_ is a different person.

And why have you resigned up?

I'm sure we could debate it forever and reach various opinions. It's one of those things you need to listen to and make up your own mind about, I think.

There does remain one little curiosity, though.

Merlin: "if you get the answers wrong then I will of course be able to reward you with magic!"

Does that mean if they get them right he won't reward them? It's possible that last little bit "...reward you with magic!" was not reversed and the team had to pick that up. This corresponds to the fact that he said "Falsehood" after each wrong answer which, if opposite, should have meant they got the answers RIGHT!

I'm getting rather muddled!

I think you've hinted at why I still think it was a little too hard. When you're a group of 13 year olds in a studio with cameras on you and everyone watching you, it must be hard enough to answer riddles, but when they're made so incomprehensible and you have very little time to think on them (we've had the benefit of rather a few years, of course), it's just horrendous. I agree with Malefact that their first answer is slightly strange, unless they reasoned at that stage that on the "opposites" theme they should give incorrect answers. Weird indeed.

"Who was the daughter of Ootha Pendragon?"

i.e. who was the son: King Arthur

Where they got "God" from only He knows!

"Who didn't have to worry about the Ides of March?"

i.e. who DID have to worry: Julius Caeser

"March of Ides" indeed!

"What happened to Cinderella's coach at midday?"

i.e. at midnight: It turned back into a pumpkin.

"It appeared"?

It was a bit ambiguous in that they were unsure whether they had to reverse their answers, but then what's the reverse of King Arthur?

On the Opposites, I agree absolutely. -shudders at the thought-

With the exception of the 'opposites' riddles given by Merlin, of course.

Someday I shall see it for myself. Someday.

Treguard does an intro. in his usual manner and reviews the previous episode.

They've previously drained the water in the Pool Room with a DRINK spell. Cliff now crawls on hands and knees through the small exit on the right of the room.

Then straight into the Level 1 Clue Room. They approach the table and take a brief look at the objects. The-Brangwen-She makes her first entrance of the series- Treguard gets very excited with an "Extreme Caution, Team" and describes her as "monstrously dangerous".

Her first riddle is this:

"My heart is like a small bird in captivity. But if my body was built as yours, what would be my heart's prison?"

The advisers discuss it for ages. Treguard tries to help by asking them "What do you keep a bird in... What do you keep a heart in?" Between them they work out the answer as ribcage (the dungeoneer certainly says the word at one stage) but then he answers "cage". It's called as a FALSEHOOD: "Ribcage was the truth I sought."

Hope that helps.

Thankee!

Or just run like a headless chicken to the wrong side and come a cropper

Anyone guess which team I'm talking about yet?  

That's very funny to watch tho'. In fairness, it's probably what I would have done.

Anyone guess which team I'm talking about yet?  

Series 4 Team 4 is perfect example of how NOT to do it  ;D

Everyone always laughs about them, and they always get quoted in the "Stupid Things Teams Did" threads, but I don't think they were quite as dumb as some. Okay, sidestepping left was a bad mistake, but the panic that puzzle naturally induced in teams is understandable. And when you panic you can say anything without thinking. I guess more than anything, surviving the B&T was about holding your nerve and more than a little luck. Oh, and hoping you haven't just been asked some weird opposite riddles by Merlin.

Block and Tackle:

The floor always started to disintegrate from the left, so all you had to do was just move to the right, and provided you can dodge the blocks, just run like the wind through the right hand door and you've done it

Lol, I think I could manage it ten years on. Obviously going left is bad, bad, bad. Right is right. I think it's the blocks that always confused me. I'll have to watch a successful attempt on video sometime. But in any case, as a young teenager I'd have been dead, dead, dead. Oooh, Nasty.

The floor always started to disintegrate from the left, so all you had to do was just move to the right, and provided you can dodge the blocks, just run like the wind through the right hand door and you've done it