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alien2
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12 Monkeys Version
« on: May 16th, 2016, 5:24am » |
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A 17-year-old boy travels back in time and dies in front of his earlier self who is a 9-year-old. Although the 9-year-old didn’t recognize his future self at all he knew right away that the boy who died was himself. How?
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Re: 12 Monkeys Version
« Reply #1 on: May 16th, 2016, 8:28am » |
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Because an intermediate version of himself traveled back in time before to tell him?
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Re: 12 Monkeys Version
« Reply #2 on: May 16th, 2016, 9:58am » |
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A time-travel misunderstanding. To build on towr's idea.
The 17-year-old wants to prevent something he did at age 10, he travels back to talk to his 9-year-old self. But the 9-year-old got information from his 10-year-old self that the 17-year-old self wants to kill him. So the 9-year old kills the 17-year old in self-defense. At age 10, he manages to get access to a time machine and returns to his 8-year-old self to warn himself of the deadly threat. At age 17 he understands it was a fatal misunderstanding and wants to tell his 9-year old self not to get back at age 10 to his 8-year self and pretend his 17-year-old self is a threat.
Simple, isn't it?
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Re: 12 Monkeys Version
« Reply #3 on: May 17th, 2016, 2:41am » |
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I am lost here. I dunno much about temporal paradox. Then again who does?
I had something simpler in mind although with a twist and just the boys mentioned in the riddle have a role concerning the expected answer.
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Re: 12 Monkeys Version
« Reply #4 on: May 31st, 2016, 6:25pm » |
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He has a rare disease that nobody else has. So when he sees the time-traveller die of that disease, he knew who it must be.
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Re: 12 Monkeys Version
« Reply #5 on: Jun 1st, 2016, 12:57am » |
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Nice try. I had something else in mind.
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Re: 12 Monkeys Version
« Reply #6 on: Jun 19th, 2016, 9:59am » |
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A big clue: Does maturity ring a bell?
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Re: 12 Monkeys Version
« Reply #7 on: Jun 23rd, 2016, 5:52pm » |
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Perhaps the boy wanted to kill himself in this way, and he had (even at 9!) planned for many years to make a time machine for that very purpose. So when he saw it happen, he knew that he must have been successful.
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Re: 12 Monkeys Version
« Reply #8 on: Jun 24th, 2016, 3:52am » |
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Again, temporal paradox confuses me. No intended answer yet which isn't complicated.
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Re: 12 Monkeys Version
« Reply #9 on: Jun 26th, 2016, 7:46pm » |
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Perhaps then the older version of himself told the boy who he was as he was dying?
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Re: 12 Monkeys Version
« Reply #10 on: Jun 26th, 2016, 11:58pm » |
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Huh?
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Re: 12 Monkeys Version
« Reply #11 on: Jul 12th, 2016, 5:53pm » |
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on Jun 26th, 2016, 11:58pm, alien2 wrote:
My guess was that the 17-year old boy told the 9 year old who he was just before he died.
Like, "Hi, I'm you from the future, aaeeeurghhh......"
I'm guessing that's not the correct answer, though!
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Re: 12 Monkeys Version
« Reply #12 on: Jul 12th, 2016, 10:57pm » |
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The intended answer is a bit silly. He became more mature as death affected him profoundly.
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Re: 12 Monkeys Version
« Reply #13 on: Jul 21st, 2016, 10:19pm » |
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Oh, I see. The 9 year old boy also died?
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Re: 12 Monkeys Version
« Reply #14 on: Jul 22nd, 2016, 12:51am » |
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Wouldn't you?
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