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Stuck in a Locked Room
You are locked in a room. The only things in the room with you are a bed, a poster on the wall, and a dresser with lots of junk in it. The key for the door is in the lock on the other side of the door. How do you unlock the door?
Hint
The door can be unlocked from both sides.Answer
First you take down the poster and slide it under the door. Then, you go into your dresser full of junk, find a paper clip and straighten it out. Wedge the key free with the paper clip. The key will fall onto the poster. You slide the poster back into the room, pick up the key and unlock the door!Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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how are we supposed to know that the junk inside the cabinet includes a paper clip?
That was pretty bad. Worded really bad, i thought the key was on the other side of the room. What do you mean wedge it out. But at least it got accepted. Good job. that's all i care about!
you might want to mension that the key os on the other side in the key hole. I was trying to find ways assuming that there was no way to get to the key. Such as looking for a screwdriver to take the hinges off.
I assumed that since it coould be unlocked from both sides, that you could yell until someone let you out. Or write a message on the poster, there has to be a pen in that junk dresser
I didnt like this one because, a) how will you know there is a paperclip in the junk box? Maybe the key to the door is there....hmm...'
b)How do you know there is a key on the other side?
and, c) how do you know that the key will, somehow, slide under the hole beneth the door? what if there is no hole? Explain more clearly next time.
b)How do you know there is a key on the other side?
and, c) how do you know that the key will, somehow, slide under the hole beneth the door? what if there is no hole? Explain more clearly next time.
I saw this as opening puzzle in online browser based GRAPHIC adventure game. It works better there where whole point is to click and try.
But still the puzzle has merit.
None of the wording helped it at all!
Really not sure how this got excepted.
Way too many assumptions, and errors if you ask me.
1) how do we know there is a paper clip on the dresser?
2) how can we assume the key would fall on the poster, as it could easily bounce off.
3) Take a look at most locks that accept keys. They do not have a slot that goes straight thru. A paper clip would not be able to poke thru a lock to push a key out the other side.
Way too many assumptions, and errors if you ask me.
1) how do we know there is a paper clip on the dresser?
2) how can we assume the key would fall on the poster, as it could easily bounce off.
3) Take a look at most locks that accept keys. They do not have a slot that goes straight thru. A paper clip would not be able to poke thru a lock to push a key out the other side.
Why not just pull a chainsaw out of the dresser of junk and cut the door down.
by the way, I meant to say "accepted" not "excepted"
i agree with reznor2001 just scream and yell until someone lets u out.
there is no way you can know that there is a paper clip in the dresser!
That's why it's a logic puzzle...you must assume that there's something in there to wedge the key free. Sorry bout the other mistakes.
I agree that you need to state that the key is in the key hole on the others side of the door. I would have gotten a screw driver from the "junk" and taken the door knob off.
apart from the fact that i read the answer to this teaser in an enid blyton book years ago (and for the ppl complaining about getting the key out of the lock, it was a lot easier in the old fashioned locks with those huge chunky keys), i decided that one could (a) break a window (b) set fire to the door with the matches i'm sure were in the junk drawer (c) get the mallet out of the junk drawer and start beating down walls (you get the idea, that's the problem with junk drawers, there's always so much unexpected stuff in them)
This was... not very good. For one, how are we to know that there's a paper clip thing in the drawer? If anything, we could've just said there was another key in the drawer! And anways, if we "wedged" the key out, how do we know it CAN fit under the door?
And whoever made the comment, "That's why it's a logic puzzle...you must assume that there's something in there to wedge the key free." Logic means facts, and common sense. Assumptions are neither.
I figured you could just turn the dead bold on the inside. Guess I was wrong huh?
me too. i thought that, after reading the clue, you could just turn the dead bolt. before i read the clue, i was saying to myself, " knock the door down with the bed!"...
I hate to sound cynical, I like the set up but you needed a lot more info. I haven't been in a house with double in and out locks in years. Modern locks will not allow you to push out a key. Nice effort though. keep trying!
regardless of how badly worded a problem this is, its also stolen. at the very least from the (extremely interesting and fun/challenging) game "Mystery of Time and Space", level 1. someone else mentioned that the answer was in a book... thats just wrong, to steal other people's problems/teasers, word them badly and take credit for it, while disgracing the actual ingeniusness of the REAL teaser (which works out much better in the game, than with the words, as above)
it was too easy for one and it could have used just a little more information for those of us out there who are all about straight forward facts. some people believe in logic being just facts, therefore, you need more facts.
I honestly hated that. There was no way that we were supposed to know about a paper clip, the key IN the key hole and more. There was just no way. You couldve said something like the only things in there are a poster, a paperclip and a junk drawer. Also, in your hint, you couldve also said that the key was in the keyhole in the other side.
I hope that this was your first logic
I hope that this was your first logic
I had seen that in Magayver...
I appreciated the effort in this teaser but would recommend more information next time.
1. Mention it was a skeleton key in the other side of the door with a key hole that can be looked through.
2. Mention there are bars on the windows or some other means of preventing you from taking the poster (to protect hands) and breaking out the window.
3. List some of the "junk" in the dresser and include paper clip in the list of stuff.
This could have been a great teaser... just wasn't quite enough info for the reader. Thanks all the same.
1. Mention it was a skeleton key in the other side of the door with a key hole that can be looked through.
2. Mention there are bars on the windows or some other means of preventing you from taking the poster (to protect hands) and breaking out the window.
3. List some of the "junk" in the dresser and include paper clip in the list of stuff.
This could have been a great teaser... just wasn't quite enough info for the reader. Thanks all the same.
Yeah, this was in Zork (anybody else remember Zork?)
This is just copied from the first level of the motas room escape game found in the directory section of games here On Braingle. I also agree with all the other errors you guys pointed out.
How can key reach to the lock with paper clip . A big mystery that no one is asking here
How can key reach to the lock with paper clip . A big mystery that no one is asking here
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