From: Doug Bonar (bonar@newton.rutgers.edu)
Date: Fri 03 Jun 1994 - 19:16:18 EEST
I find it strange that #3 and #4 on the list of riddles aren't listed by the writer as easy. Even more surprising to me is that the two answer lists I've seen posted neither answers 3 and the one that answers 4 thinks it is medium in difficulty.
For me those two were easy and the others were much harder. By that I mean that just reading #3 and #4 gave me the answers, but for the other ones I would have had to think (and know some Glorantha lore).
I suspect that part of the reason I found the two easy is that they seem to be descriptions that are close to normal discriptions. The fingers are just about the cononical description of '5' and the tasks seemed quite clear (though it is interesting that the thumb seems to be numbered 5 in the counting, even though it is in the 0 place. :-) ). A die is so common to many gamers that something close to a realistic description seems bound to be easily answered.
In a meta sense, I offer the following.
'I am the spinner of fates. Leaping, skiping and tumbling I go, perhaps over the hills of the world, perhaps simple on a tavern table. When I stop I'll tell the tales of man and beast alike. Who am I?'
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