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(Message started by: maryl on Jun 2^nd, 2003, 3:12pm)

Title: Locked up
Post by maryl on Jun 2^nd, 2003, 3:12pm

Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They then decide to tunnel out. However, they give up with the tunneling because it will take too long. Finally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan?

Title: Re: Locked up
Post by Sir Col on Jun 2^nd, 2003, 4:55pm

Do they... [hide]use the earth they recover from their tunneling plan to build up towards the unbarred window[/hide]?

Title: Re: Locked up
Post by Icarus on Jun 2^nd, 2003, 6:04pm

I think there is a puzzle in the easy section in which the solution is that the prisoner(s) seal around the door and the drains, and flood the cell. As long as they can tread water long enough, they will float up the the window. That puzzle gives you details about the cell (such as a solid door - the traditional bars would be very hard to seal!).

Title: Re: Locked up
Post by maryl on Jun 4^th, 2003, 10:51am

on 06/02/03 at 16:55:05, Sir Col wrote:

Do they... [hide]use the earth they recover from their tunneling plan to build up towards the unbarred window[/hide]?

Yup