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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #100 on: Dec 3rd, 2005, 4:51pm » |
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Since willywutang is on a narrow island and has approximately ten hours to come up with a solution, all he has to do is dig a trench from one sie of the island to the other. The trench would fill with water from the ocean and keep the fire from consuming the entire island. willywutang now safe.
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #101 on: Dec 4th, 2005, 7:36am » |
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I'm surprised no one thought of that before.
Depends on 'narrow' though. A few hundred meters is narrow for an island, but digging a decent trench that long (nevermind getting the trees out of the way first), would take more than a few hours..
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #102 on: Dec 4th, 2005, 8:38am » |
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on Dec 4th, 2005, 7:36am, towr wrote:| I'm surprised no one thought of that before. |
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on Aug 7th, 2002, 6:48am, rtremaine wrote:Couldnt Willy just dig a groove across the island width wise.
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on Dec 16th, 2003, 9:04am, dack wrote:| actually, I think that since the width of the island is small, that he could dig a trench that would fill with water and thus be a barrier between him and the fire. |
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #103 on: Dec 4th, 2005, 10:23am » |
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What ...?
You expected me to look it up first? 
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #104 on: Jun 19th, 2006, 7:23pm » |
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ok, dig a trench across the island (shouldn't take long if it's a thin island). dig it deep (shouldn't be hard unless it has sloped edges in which case he could stand on the sand of the beach or wade in the shallow water). the water should fill the trench and the fire (being slow moving) couldn't jump it.
As to the problem of food after the fire, if the island has australian plants many should grow back because of the heat and smoke from the fire which is neccessary for native Australian plants to germinate/grow eg. Banksias.
The original inhabitants of Australia survived off the land even after bushfires.
Other than this i agree with the statement about the lack of detail in the riddle. It doesn't say what species of organism Willy is. Many animals and plants can survive bushfires, they don't "burn to death" they just burn a bit. If he's a banksia he might survive the fire AND end up with children!!!!
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #105 on: Sep 22nd, 2006, 10:05pm » |
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I have a brand new solution. This one assumes that Wil (for short) is wearing clothes and does not fear getting naked in the wilderness.
What he needs to do is take his shirt off, and than soak it. Than, he needs to take off any bottom clothes and get them wet. Of course, he needs to put them back on. He runs through the fire and into the ashes. There, he has a bigger chance of survival because he is wet, and than stops, drops, and rolls. This also puts in another big if. Is he next to A or is near B?
Otherwise, if you are on at most a 5*10 island (otherwise, it's not really wide), you are surrounded by soaking water that makes plants wet.
Finally, how'd the fire get started? Mabey he had a sony battery inside one of the recalled computers? Mabey he had only enough time to write the riddle. lol. That's more of a joke and wondering why there's a fire.
I still like the thought that Wil is a bird that CAN fly.
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #106 on: Sep 24th, 2006, 4:35pm » |
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And hey, if he ran through the fire like that he'd only have steam burns to 2/3rds of his body! 
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #107 on: Sep 25th, 2006, 1:57pm » |
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Well, if it's a very thing strip of fire he could probably get though. I mean, can't you put your dry body through a fire for a few seconds? He could also control how he feels the fire.
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #108 on: Oct 21st, 2006, 9:28am » |
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It's easier than everyone is making it. First look that he's on an island with nothing around it to get off, so you have to ask yourself...How did he get there? He can't swim, but he can either walk or crawl. It's obvious there has to be a land bridge that made it possible for him to get there in the frist place. Just take the land bridge back to where he came from and he'll be safe and the island will burn until it reaches water and dies out.
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #109 on: Oct 21st, 2006, 10:14am » |
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If there was a land bridge, it would be a peninsula not an island
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #110 on: Oct 21st, 2006, 12:43pm » |
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Perhaps there is a sort of landbridge that's only available at low tide and is udner water at high tide.
Of course, with Willy's luck, the fire's durign high tide.
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #111 on: Oct 22nd, 2006, 12:56am » |
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maybe. He has 10 hours to wait for the tide to go out anyway
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #112 on: Oct 22nd, 2006, 7:24am » |
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Or he other way round: He knows the tide will go up, flood the island and extinguish the fire.
Or another idea: he just felt the tremors of an earthquake and expects a tsunami.
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #113 on: Dec 7th, 2006, 1:19pm » |
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ok. so how did willy what's his face get on the island in the first place? think of that. to save himself from the fire, why not just walk across a bridge!!! duh
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #114 on: Jan 19th, 2007, 11:22am » |
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He Digs a hole. If he lit a fire to counteract the other fire, the island is heavily forested, it would start to seperate fires, decreasing his time to love.
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #115 on: Jan 21st, 2007, 9:45am » |
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What?
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #116 on: Feb 20th, 2007, 2:03am » |
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he starts a fire a mile from point B then waits until the fire consumes everything to B. then he wait in the area that the second fire has burnt off
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #117 on: Feb 20th, 2007, 8:29pm » |
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on Feb 20th, 2007, 2:03am, armyone wrote:| he starts a fire a mile from point B then waits until the fire consumes everything to B. then he wait in the area that the second fire has burnt off |
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Hey..why didn't I think of that ??
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #118 on: Feb 21st, 2007, 4:27am » |
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Is that island still burning?
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #119 on: Apr 7th, 2007, 7:59pm » |
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on Aug 12th, 2002, 11:02am, Ali G wrote:Sadly, the point that everybody is missing here is perhaps the most salient of all.
Namely, what the f*ck was Willy doing "hanging out" on an island on his own in the first place?
Furthermore, I'm a little disturbed that so many intelligent people so casually dismiss the possibility of arson here. Willy was alone on the island, so how exactly did the fire start? Either intentionally or through his total ineptitude with camping fires, I think it's clear this situation is the result of Willy's own actions.
Willy is clearly some kind of neurotic loner whose only interest in life is to locate uninhabited islands. And then burn them down.
Frankly, I don't have time to waste on psychotic campers with a penchant for pyromania. To be blunt, the world would be a much better place without idiots like Willy.
Her's my solution to the problem; burn on the island, Willy, and long may you burn in hell. |
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He can't be that much of loner, seeing as how he's been known to have sex with 3 women in one night.
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #120 on: Apr 9th, 2007, 6:02pm » |
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couldn't willywutang simply dig a division ito the island so it would stop the fire before it reaches him?
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #121 on: Apr 9th, 2007, 6:04pm » |
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Only if he is a really, really fast digger!
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #122 on: Apr 9th, 2007, 6:41pm » |
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he could dig it in the near the end of the island that way he would have at least 8 or 9 hours to dig since the fire is only traveling at one mile an hour. This would be plenty of time to dig
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #123 on: Apr 10th, 2007, 2:18pm » |
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Across the entire island, clear down to sea level, wide enough to stop the fire from jumping the gap? Unless he's got some earth-moving equipment at his disposal, 8 or 9 MONTHS isn't going to be enough!
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Re: Easy: Willywutang & burning island
« Reply #124 on: Aug 5th, 2008, 3:11am » |
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on Jul 25th, 2002, 7:39pm, A.P. wrote:This solution seems too simple to be right:
Willywutang can set a second fire, stay between the two fires, then move into the ashes left by the second fire. When the first fire gets there, there won't be anything left to burn.
It took me about 5 minutes to think of. Surely it can't be that easy? |
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I have a a problem with this solution. How can willy start a fire ? Forest fires are not like match stick fires that you can just go near one and get a burning peice and start another fire. They are so hot even going in proximity will burn you. Also according to the puzzle there seems to be no equipment with willy that he can use to start a fresh fire. also the wind is towards willy so even if he tries to go near the fire the smoke and ashes will choke him. I don't think this solution is possible.
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