That riddle...
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I was about to ask about those riddles. It really confused me the first time around.
"What didn't Cinderella turn into at midnight"
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As I said in another thread, I thought those backwards ones were pretty unfair. I was confused too. I have a feeling a lot of people were.
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Series 4 Team 5 were robbed
Well, I don't know if they'd have been good enough to win, but those Opposites were just horrific. They win the "Team I Feel Sorry For That Series" award hands down, no contest.
I think Series 4 would be the one I'd have least liked to have been in. Those opposites were just evil, and I could never work out how you were meant to traverse the Block and Tackle. So I'd have been absolutely hopeless, unless the production team had been very very very kind.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Okay, I've just watched it again:
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.
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I just watched it an hour ago - courtesy of Paul/Greebo <¦-) - and thought that the difficulty of the riddles was far greater than anything in the later series, even though clues were given.
With the exception of the 'opposites' riddles given by Merlin, of course.
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Some of the riddles are extremely hard. There are a few which are absurdly easy, tho., although I suppose that's the thing with riddles- if you think in the correct way and understand what they're talking about they're easy by definition. I'm surprised at some teams don't know, but also by a lot they do know.
On the Opposites, I agree absolutely. -shudders at the thought-
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The opposites weren't that hard.
"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?
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Ah, I've got it now. That makes a lot more sense - thanks for that.
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It was the reversing answers point that got me. In some ways it was hard to see what he was looking for, when I originally watched it.
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.
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