Pinkie Pie is the master of random shenanigans and hilarity. Her oddity and overbubbly personality make her a Ponyville one-of-a-kind. She loves games, no matter the time or the place. If it weren't for her bright love for everyone, Ponyville would not have its vibrant luster. So one day, in typical Pinkie Pie fashion, Pinkie Pie visits Twilight with a simple riddle.
But there's a problem. Twilight can't solve it. In awe of the remarkable event, Pinkie Pie refuses to tell her the answer, or even give it a hint.
That proves to be a bad idea.
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Huh. And here I thought the trick was in the shift from male pronouns to a female one.
After watching Scrubs, my advice to Twilight is to destroy Pinkie's bike.
How could Twilight not figure out the answer?! It's so obvious!
But it 'twas a good story, sir, quite good indeed.
5604568 I think Twilight's mind doesn't go to the immediately obvious. She's too scientific for it.
So I played off that for the heck of it.
And thanks! For it just being a random idea, I sure enjoyed it.
This ahould show up in an episode. Well played!
5604797 Yay! Thank you very much!
ugh, the internet has ruined me. i thought it was a butt joke.
but you used the time travel twilight image. i expected time travel shenanigans, royal authority abuse, and maybe kidnapping.
Well I was going to say Spike's mouth since his teeth are a bit pointier. But I was along the right lines.
A diamond necklace fits in a normal pony's mouth? And normal pony teeth are mountains? I could see Twilight being told that was the answer and dismissing it as inconsistent with the setup.
(I can think of other answers too. If that counts, then so does an arctic cave with snow-lined stalagmites and stalactites, or a diamond dog den where the guards - brawny types who can be described as "mountains" - are either wearing white, possibly for camouflage, or have been standing at the entrance long enough to get covered in snow.)
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Ah, the ancient Riddle War. Allusions vs logic puzzles vs obscure trivia vs absolute nonsense.
Twilight would do well with logic puzzles and trivia. Allusions simply have too many possible answers(as you demonstrated) and the absolute nonsense is for Discord.
I feel her pain, I really do. I have an enormous axe to grind when it comes to those kinds of riddles.
...Oh I just noticed you called the thief a he in one part and she in the other....
Huh, reminds me of Logic with Pinkie Pie:
huh...I thought that the answer to the riddle was 'in the cave she found.' since the riddle only says that the thief FOUND a cave with white mountains, not that they hid it there. Kind of a 'complete the logical step' sort of trick or something.
The answer was a little obvious to me because the thief found a cave with white mountains, implying the mountains are inside the cave, rather than finding a cave in a white mountain.
But Pinkie needs to make up her mind about whether the thief is a "he" or a "she".
Why are you all yelling about the pronoun change? It was probably just a typo, and even if it wasn't, it's not like we haven't done that from time to time XD
Uhhh.......am I missing something here or did Pinkie just break a rule she made two sentences ago?
Well it's a true riddle. Like the ones in the Hobbit. A Box without a key, or lid. Inside something golden is hid. Those kind of riddles.
5606299 Check the ending: she didn't. Burning the town down was just a dream/nightmare.
5605728 Treating it as a logic puzzle, Twilight can claim "insufficient detail" the moment that two possible answers present themselves. That said, if she was stuck on trying to find a cave large enough to hold a literal mountain, she might have asked if it was a literal mountain. Or as 5605871 noted, just "in the cave" - or even, "just because she found a cave doesn't mean she hid it there, so you haven't actually said anything about where she hid it".
5605766 ...yeah, that's a mistitled video. The answer appears to be "There are ___ stars in the sky"; just giving a number is incorrect, and the number you insert into the phrase is irrelevant. That's not a logic puzzle.
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I'll be honest with you. That video is an awful example of a riddle, practical joke, puzzle or whatever. And the creators should feel awful.
5606322 Eh, not really. She wouldn't tell the answer to Twilight cause she was the participant, but she could tell the answer to anyone else if she wanted.
And to those who have noticed the gender change in the riddle, merely a typo. Fixing that, and sorry for the confusion.
Disregarding the riddle entirely, while the story was humorus, it was extremely predictable. I skipped to the end to see the answer to the riddle, assuming that throughout the story Twilight asked a whole bunch of ponies what the answer was and begged Pinkie to tell her but she never got her answer. When I went back, I found I was pretty much spot on. I personally would have saved the scene at the beginning for the end and cut this down to a drabble. The concept itself, with manic Twilight, is very much spot on, though, and I enjoyed the idea that she burned down the village, if only because I could see her actually doing that.
5606822 Oh yeah, predictable idea. I essentially wrote it just for the heck of it.
another story where pinkie pie is a bitch
5607140 That's a bit harsh. Immature and taking a joke too far, maybe, but that's much. More or less just typical Pinkie shenanigans.
In a cave? I don't know if I'm right or wrong, but I'm putting this as my answer before reading on.
One Reading Later...
Well...I was kind of right. Still, Pinkie never said that Twilight only had one guess. Why didn't she just name every answer that came to mind?
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I bet you wouldn't have the same opinion of the Pinkie Pie of Filli Vanilli when Pinkie Pie was being a completely oblivious asshole to Fluttershy. She's doing the same thing to Twilight here too.
Since he's being chased by royal gaurds, we can assume he's probably in canterlot. The best place to hide is in plain sight, so the thief must've hidden them in the crystal caves under the city!
ARRRRRG! I hate life.
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All I can say is: This
5607846 Yeah Pinkie's fulla shit. A mouth is not a cave and teeth are not mountains. I would've said canterlot, in the crystal caves. white mountain tops and caves.
5607140 Indeed
Ha. Poor Twilight...
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this kind of reminds me of the logic puzzle "green glass door". I have no idea how the "how many stars" game actually works though.
I think Twilight Sparkle is mentally distubed
Well, this is a special kind of riddle...it's the same used in lord of the rings. Symbology is a key part of it. (Which is what makes it infuriating)
In fact, the 'cave with white mountains' thing is pretty much used in LoTR, only with 30 white soldiers all in a row. (Gollum almost fails, since he only has three)
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Sounds like a normal reaction to me!
I hate riddles because they don't operate by logic. Riddles are literally impossible to know the answer with 100% certainty unless you know the original answer before hand.
The real answer based on logic is that he didn't hide the stolen item. Or that the cave is miles high and wide, and it contains mountains, but that assumes he hid it when the story doesn't actually say he hid it, only that he found the cave.
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The way I see it, you actually can, because any answer that fits all the given criteria, and is at least somewhat poetic or clever, is a correct answer, even if it's not necessarily the one the riddler was thinking of. If you come up with a different answer that still fits, any riddler who's not a jerkface should be like, "Ooh, that one's good too!"
5616673 And that is what makes them illogical. They have no one answer.
5617431 I understand what you're getting at, but be careful not to confuse "open-ended" with "illogical". You just described the term "open-ended". There may be more than one answer, but any answers still have to fit the given criteria – which makes all the answers, and the question, logical.
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Given that she once launched the Golden Oaks library, with herself in it, that seems perfectly reasonable.
“She’ll be so mad when she finds out the answer to that riddle.”
Understatement of all time, Spike. Understatement of all time.
Pinkie Pie...you're dead...
Hahahahahaha!!!