Zeusthecat

That's when you take the lid off the tank and... I don't think I need to finish this sentence

I'm not sure if I should take these comments as an insult, a compliment, or a statement of fact. With that being said... diarrhea.

Okay, part 2: This time, upon awakening in the crypt, I found that Stan had set up shop and was ready to do business. I expressed my interest in purchasing a life insurance policy but he needed me to give him some kind of payment before he would sell it to me. So I went through a couple items and ended up being able to give him my gold tooth in exchange for the life insurance policy. With my new policy in hand, I headed back to the hotel once again to try to figure out what I needed to do next. Hoping that the life insurance policy would prove my Goodsoup heritage, I went straight over to show it to the bartender which ended up being pointless as he seemed to show no interest in it. So yet again, I figured I should poke around the hotel a bit and I happened to get super lucky when I went upstairs to see if the business card or insurance papers would somehow come into play with something up there. In one of my first attempts, I happened to try using Stan's business card with the locked door and was finally able to pick the lock and get into the room. Once inside, I investigated each item in the room and ended up finding a dead guy laying in the wall bed when I pulled it down. He had a big blue book resting on top of him which I tried to grab but wasn't able to because the bed flew back into it's upright position as soon as I let go of it. So I did the most obvious thing I could think of and used the coffin nails (I forget to mention in my last post that I had picked these up when I first freed myself from the coffin) and hammer to nail down the bed. Guybrush commented that I would need one more nail, so I finished the job with the nail I had picked up earlier from the painting. With the bed nailed in place I was finally able to grab the book and was thrilled to see that it had everything I needed to know about the Goodsoup family history. With the book in hand, I headed straight back downstairs to talk to Goodsoup again. This time, I was finally able to convince Goodsoup that I was a member of his illustrious family and he seemed quite impressed with my 'knowledge' of Goodsoup family history despite the fact that I pulled the book out and literally read from it right in front of his dumb face. With him convinced, I 'killed' myself one more time and finally ended up in the Goodsoup family crypt. Upon awakening, I escaped from my coffin and noticed a ghostly woman nearby (also, I peaked my head through a crack and got to experience another MI1 throwback segment). I listened to her story and learned that she had the band I would ultimately need for the ring that would save Elaine. I tried to convince her to part with it but she insisted that the only way that would happen would be if someone married her. Since necrophilia was pretty much the last thing I wanted in my life, I politely declined her advances and continued on to the end of the crypt hallway. At the end of the hallway I found an empty half-open coffin with a crowbar sitting inside. So I picked the crowbar up and after taking a few steps, my favorite dead dude, Murray, dropped down to bestow my presence with his awesomeness. After having a brief conversation with him, I picked him up and then went over to peak through a big crack in the back wall of the crypt. When I peered through the crack, I found the interior of the gravekeeper's house on the other side. I tried to convince him to let me out but he was convinced that I was just some hooligan playing tricks on him (now I know why I spent so much time torturing this dude with the voodoo doll earlier in the game, he's kind of a prick). So I took a minute to examine his room and after attempting a few things, I found that I could grab his lantern with my glued up skeleton arm. Once I had the lantern, I was able to use it with Murray to scare the shit out of the gravekeeper and finally convince him to unlock the crypt. Based on some of the stuff the ghost lady said during our conversation earlier, I figured my next step should probably be to go back and see if there was anything else to do with the dead dude in the hotel. So I headed back over there and quickly found that my new crowbar was capable of removing the boards covering up the hole in the wall behind where the bed folded up. Then, it was just a matter of using the crowbar to remove the nails I had put in place and I was able to launch the dead dude right into the Goodsoup crypt. After doing this, I saw a short scene where the two ghost people fell in love and decided to get married, at which point they disappeared, leaving the ring band behind (question: Is it still considered necrophilia if both parties are dead?). After witnessing that sequence, I headed straight back to the crypt, picked up the wedding band, and continued on. I tried a few things after this but have yet to make any further progress. So far I have tried giving the insurance policy to virtually every character available and I have tried using the ring band as my buy in for the poker game with no success. Right now I'm thinking the first thing I will do is to try to somehow convince Stan I am dead so I can collect the life insurance money. Maybe if I show him one of the Tarot cards he will believe me.

Couldn't you just ask them which road they travelled down to get to the fork? If you asked that then they would both have to point to the Truthtown road.

I have to agree. And his crazy waving arms looked kind of disturbing in their animated form.

I played a bunch last night and finally made some substantial breakthroughs. Upon resuming, I started going back through each area to try to figure out what I was missing. This went on for a little while until I ended up back at the hotel staring at all that congealed cheese. I decided to try using a few of my items to get the fork out of the cheese in the hopes that it would somehow be useful and in the process, I happened to look around and notice all the signs in the restaurant subtly telling me I should drink grog. Convinced that those signs were trying to hint at the solution I was looking for, I headed over to Goodsoup and asked him for a drink. He gave it to me and I quickly drank it and then repeated the process a few times thinking that maybe I just needed to get shit faced and pass out so they would think I was dead and bury me. Before long, I realized this probably wasn't going to work and decided I should try using some of my items on the cup of grog since I hadn't really tried much with it before. To my surprise, I found the solution when I tried using the hangover medicine with the grog which created a lethal mixture that I promptly drank, causing Guybrush to go into a crazy hallucinogenic freakout and collapse on the floor. Goodsoup wasn't convinced that Guybrush was dead but luckily the gravekeeper was an idiot and buried him alive just as I had hoped. At this point the credits started rolling and there was a good 4th wall breaking moment about not dying in LucasArts adventure games. Shortly after that, Guybrush regained consciousness inside the crypt. After trying a few items, I was able to pry the lid off of the coffin by using my chisel. Once I was free to move around the crypt, I noticed some noises coming from one of the other coffins and pried the lid off to find Stan still trapped inside due to my shenanigans in Monkey Island 2. He appeared to have a severe case of restless arm syndrome and proceeded to give me his business card before telling me to come back a little later so he would have time to set up shop for his new business. After coming out of the crypt, I saw that Guybrush had not actually been buried in the Goodsoup crypt and realized that I would likely need to do something else and then repeat the medicine + grog process to get in there. So I went back to the hotel and talked to Goodsoup. At this point, I was able to carry the conversation a little bit further than I previously could and Goodsoup hinted that if I could convince him of my Goodsoup heritage, I would be worthy of being buried in the crypt. I carried the conversation a little further and tried to convince him but had no luck so I just asked him for another drink so I could 'kill' myself again. ...I got quite a bit further than this but I'll have to continue this post later as it's gotten quite long already and I need to head home.

Is the answer 'day'? If you consider that a day has two legs (morning and afternoon), maybe you could say those legs only touch the ground at night (i.e. when the day is resting). Also, everything I typed above sounds really stupid when I read it back.

For me, going through those gross things that Trevor does was a big part of what made me appreciate his character so much. I am glad the game made me feel uncomfortable and forced me to do horrible things to progress through the story. Having the game force me to do some of those things made the gravity of the situation much more impactful than some torture scene in a movie that I can choose not to watch or just write off because it is some horrible thing that the bad guy is doing. In this game though, you are forced to experience the story as a completely insane psychopath. That is what Trevor's character is and I think the game is better for not letting you escape that. As I played through this game, I naturally hoped and expected that there would be some justification, something to assure me that the things I was doing were somehow necessary. But that never came. Instead, the game drove home that no, you really are a psychopath and there is no escaping it. And because of this, the little moments where Trevor shows unexpected compassion were that much more powerful and made his character that much more complex. I don't know if I can think of any other game where the credits rolled and I was left feeling that almost everything I did was done for horrible and selfish reasons. The story may not have been very good but I think it accomplished something significant in making me feel the way I did and forcing me to accept that, in the game, I was just a bad person. Edit: Missed the two posts above mine so sorry if I'm repeating what others have said.

How about a bird?

A pair of pants?

That person was me and in retrospect, I probably should have kept that opinion to myself. Unfortunately I didn't and my opinion pissed some people off. To beat this dead horse a little bit more, I don't at all think Levine is a bad person or that he is stupid or anything like that. He did exhibit some dumb behavior (such as his weird statement surrounding the closure of Irrational) and, as that latest Polygon article seems to support, he didn't really come across as very capable of successfully running a large studio and needed a lot of additional help to reign in his 'creative process' and get his game shipped. He may be a 'creative genius' (and I honestly don't understand how he came to have that title so maybe that is part of my frustration) but from my point of view, he is also an idiot (i.e. ignorant) in a lot of ways. I don't really see that as a super offensive thing but apparently others do. If it makes anyone feel any better I'm a big fucking idiot too. It's really not that bad of a title to have.

Do we have to assume 1 link has to be paid each day or can we assume payment is only made on the last day? If we can assume the latter then he would only need to cut it once.

I can't really think of a good response to that so I'll concede my point. If you are going off of the previous games it would be reasonable to be a little shocked at some of the things Trevor says and does. Although, from my perspective he was the most interesting and well written character in the game and, in a way, was the embodiment of what the GTA series is all about (i.e. violent, rude, insane, sometimes serious, and a tad inconsistent).

Okay, well if you fold the chain up just right I guess you can get what you need in just one cut.

Okay, I got it. It's 4. 1 2 4 8 8 You can make every number up to 23 with that combination of segments.

Damn, 22 then?

Zero, assuming the traveller can opt to overpay if he stays less than 23 days. (and I say this because you said "what is the least number of cuts required to allow him to stay for any number of days between 1 and 23" and don't specify that he can't overpay)

Well that was fast. Yes, the math in the riddle is wrong and your explanation is correct. Edit: Most people really struggle with this for some reason but I guess it's harder to trick people on these forums.

I'll throw this one out there: 3 people are at a hotel and order a pizza. The front desk says it will be $30, so each person puts in $10. When it's delivered, the delivery guy tells them that it is only $25, so he gives each person back $1 and keeps $2 for a tip. If each person got a dollar back, they only spent $9 each. $9 * 3= $27 + $2 that the delivery guy kept =$29. What happened to the other dollar?

I've heard the answer for the first one before so I won't answer that. Nothing for the third one. River for the fourth one.

Caramel.

If I'm up, I'll need to think about a good one (or probably just find one on Google). If anyone else wants to jump in with one in the meantime feel free.

Wow, I meant that as a sick joke. That might now be one of my favorite riddles ever.

I'm confused. Was that really the answer?

So there would be another funeral and he would hopefully be there to give her another business card?