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For those of you not familiar with Crack teh Case, here's the gist:
I will offer a short description of the end result of a mystery story. Your job is to discover how we got to that end point. You do this by asking questions that I can answer with "Yes" or "No" responses.
You may only submit solutions via PM to me. Any solutions offered in the thread will be ignored.
The person who solves the mystery will be awarded 755,002,001 Coolio Points.
The case:
The case of the buttered feather
The story:
Five girls stand around a table each with two fingers touching a feather and butter smeared on it while Samantha's father is out searching for his daughter.
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The feather has butter smeared on it?
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The feather has butter smeared on it?
Yes.
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Is Samantha's father out searching for Samantha?
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Is Samantha's father out searching for Samantha?
Yes
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Does Samantha, or any of the 5 girls, or Samantha's father believe that touching the feather will help Samantha's father find Samantha?
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Was the butter applied to the feather deliberately?
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Does the fact that I have to leave work now and go home, and will probably not be on line again until late tomorrow, mean that I will likely lose out on the Coolio Point Motherload?
Does the fact that I have never once won one of these damn things make the above question moot?
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Does Samantha, or any of the 5 girls, or Samantha's father believe that touching the feather will help Samantha's father find Samantha?
Yes.
Was the butter applied to the feather deliberately?
Yes.
To the other questions; we shall see.
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Are the six girls sextuplets?
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Are the six girls sextuplets?
No.
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Is Samantha one of the five girls?
Is Samantha a human?
Are the girls human?
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Is Samantha one of the five girls?
No
Is Samantha a human?
Usually, yes. At the moment, no.
Are the girls human?
Yes.
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Is Samantha's father not human at the moment as well?
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Is Samantha lost?
Was Samantha taken?
Is Samantha in danger?
Is the butter germane to the missing Samantha?
Or, is the butter a red herring?
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Samantha used to be a girl in human form and now she is some kind of bird?
Is there some sort of voodoo ritual involved relating to the feather?
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Or, is the butter a red herring?
There's definitely something fishy about the butter.
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Is the butter freshly churned?
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Is Samantha's father not human at the moment as well?
No
Is Samantha lost?
No
Was Samantha taken?
No
Is Samantha in danger?
No
Is the butter germane to the missing Samantha?
No
Or, is the butter a red herring?
No
Samantha used to be a girl in human form and now she is some kind of bird?
No
Is there some sort of voodoo ritual involved relating to the feather?
Yes
Is the butter freshly churned?
No
emphasis and strike out added to aid you in your quest
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Is Samantha, in fact, missing?
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Is Samatha a werewolf?
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Is Samantha's father out searching for Samantha?
Or, is he searching for a different daughter?
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Did the butter come from a stick? A tub?
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Is Samantha one of the five girls?
Is Samantha a human?
Are the girls human?
Waitaminit, is Lacerda a d00d?
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Is Samantha, in fact, missing?
No
Is Samatha a werewolf?
No
Is Samantha's father out searching for Samantha?
Yes
Did the butter come from a stick?
No
A tub?
Yes
Waitaminit, is Lacerda a d00d?
QED
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Is Samantha alive?
Is her father looking for her remains?
Was Samantha anywhere near that asshole Mersault during the turkey insurrection of 2001?
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Does it have to do anything with this product? :
(http://www.internet-grocer.net/butter.jpg)
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Is Samantha alive?
Unable to determine at this time
Is her father looking for her remains?
No
Was Samantha anywhere near that asshole Mersault during the turkey insurrection of 2001?
Maybe
Does it have to do anything with this product?
No. Not duck butter, either.
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Is touching the feather a part of a witchcraft ritual? Was she attempting to connect with the air element?
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Does the feather belong to Samantha?
Does Samantha know that they are touching a buttered feather?
Is Samantha gone of her own will power? Was she taken?
Does Samantha know her father is out searching for her?
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Does the feather belong to Samantha?
No
Does Samantha know that they are touching a buttered feather?
Unable to determine
Is Samantha gone of her own will power?
Yes
Was she taken?
No
Does Samantha know her father is out searching for her?
Unable to determine
Is touching the feather a part of a witchcraft ritual?
Sure... yeah... let's go ahead and call it witchcraft since it's a good term for something that is silly and doesn't exist and it will aid in the solution of this mystery since it will take your mind outside of the box of reality.
Was she attempting to connect with the air element?
No
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Samantha is a chicken! The girls was a-pluckin' her fer Sunday dinner; but she broke bad and escaped!
That would make her father a rooster, so yeh. He'd be out looking for her... or any other hen!
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Did one of the girls butter the feather?
Did the father?
Is Samantha a ghost?
Is Samantha a vampire?
Is Samantha a shape-shifter?
Is this present day?
Are the girls indoors? Outdoors?
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Did one of the girls butter the feather?
Yes
Did the father?
No
Is Samantha a ghost?
No
Is Samantha a vampire?
No
Is Samantha a shape-shifter?
No
Is this present day?
Yes
Are the girls indoors?
Yes
Outdoors?
No
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Is Samantha alone?
No
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Are the five girls related to Samantha?
No
Is Samantha with the 5 girls?
Yes
Do the five girls have supernatural powers?
No (at least, I don't think it's the girls who have the power)
Is the buttered feather anywhere on Samantha?
No
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Do the five girls know that Samantha is there?
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Do the five girls know that Samantha is there?
Yes
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Was putting butter on the feather Samantha's idea?
Was putting butter on the feather one of the other girls' idea?
Was putting butter on the feather Samantha's father's idea?
Was butter put on the feather to make it easier to manage?
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Are the girls minors?
Is Samantha a minor?
Does Samantha's father know she's with the girls?
Was the feather always a feather?
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Was putting butter on the feather Samantha's idea?
No
Was putting butter on the feather one of the other girls' idea?
Yes
Was putting butter on the feather Samantha's father's idea?
No
Was butter put on the feather to make it easier to manage?
No
Are the girls minors?
Yes
Is Samantha a minor?
Yes
Does Samantha's father know she's with the girls?
No
Was the feather always a feather?
No
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Is the feather magical?
No
Is the feather why Samantha is there?
Not sure how to answer. Please rephrase.
Are the girls there willingly?
Yes
Is Samantha controlling the girls?
No
Is Samantha from Earth?
Yes
Are the girls from Earth?
Yes
Are they all touching the feather with their index and middle fingers?
Yes
Does Samantha have any sisters?
Can't know. Can't care. Doesn't matter.
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Is the feather the reason why Samantha is there***
Hmmmm... I'm going to rephrase it for you in a way that I can answer.
If the feather wasn't there, would Samantha be there?
No
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So, like, is Samantha at this point in time, in fact, the feather?
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So, like, is Samantha at this point in time, in fact, the feather?
Yes
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Whisky Tango Foxtrot!
Please rephrase as a question.
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Is Samantha a Whisky Tango Foxtrot?
clearly
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Do the girls believe the feather is Samantha?
Does Samantha's father believe the feather is Samantha?
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Do the girls believe the feather is Samantha?
Yes
Does Samantha's father believe the feather is Samantha?
No
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Are the girls responsible for Samantha being a feather?
Were illicit substances involved in Samantha's turning into a feather?
Did Samantha know she was going to be a feather?
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Is Samantha actually Dan Quayle?
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Are the girls responsible for Samantha being a feather?
Yes
Were illicit substances involved in Samantha's turning into a feather?
No
Did Samantha know she was going to be a feather?
No
Is Samantha actually Dan Quayle?
While I can see how one might reason, "Hey! I went out on a limb and guessed that Samantha was a feather and I was right! Let's try again!" I'm sorry, I have to answer in the negative this time. Samantha is not Dan Quayle.
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Is Samantha a Damn Quail?
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Is Samantha a Damn Quail?
Undetermined
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Is Samantha actually Dan Quayle?
While I can see how one might reason, "Hey! I went out on a limb and guessed that Samantha was a feather and I was right! Let's try again!" I'm sorry, I have to answer in the negative this time. Samantha is not Dan Quayle.
I didn't really think that. It was just a cheap Doonesbury reference. From 20 years ago. Also, I knew the feather was Samantha almost from the start, when you told Deta that Samantha is normally human, but not at the moment. I finally pushed the issue so that everyone else would start asking questions that you haven't already answered.
Here are some meta-questions:
Must the final answer include the mechanism by which Samantha was transformed into a feather?
Must the final answer include the reason the girls are touching the feather with exactly 2 fingers?
Must the final answer include the reason why butter was applied to the feather?
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Was it necessary to use butter, as opposed to, say, Shedd's Spread Country Crock?
Does Samantha's father know the girls believe the feather is Samantha?
Was there a practical reason for putting butter on the feather?
If any of the girls let go of the feather, is Samantha doomed to remain in that form?
Are Samantha and her father on good terms?
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Is this all merely an excuse to make some kind of awful pun, like "NOBODY LAYS A FINGER ON MY BUTTERED FEATHER!" or something like that?
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Must the final answer include the mechanism by which Samantha was transformed into a feather?
Yes
Must the final answer include the reason the girls are touching the feather with exactly 2 fingers?
Yes
Must the final answer include the reason why butter was applied to the feather?
No
Was it necessary to use butter, as opposed to, say, Shedd's Spread Country Crock?
Yes -- That is to say it was necessary to use the specific brand of butter that was used. The name of the brand was mentioned in the story, but isn't really important.
Does Samantha's father know the girls believe the feather is Samantha?
No
Was there a practical reason for putting butter on the feather?
Yes
If any of the girls let go of the feather, is Samantha doomed to remain in that form?
No
Are Samantha and her father on good terms?
Yes
Is this all merely an excuse to make some kind of awful pun, like "NOBODY LAYS A FINGER ON MY BUTTERED FEATHER!" or something like that?
No
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Is it "I can't believe it's not butter" butter?
No
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Bonus Hint: It was a sleepover that gathered the girls together on that night.
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Did the girls gather together with the intention of turning Samantha into a feather?
Was her transformation an accident?
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Did the girls gather together with the intention of turning Samantha into a feather?
No
Was her transformation an accident?
Yes
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Do the girls believe touching the feather will somehow reverse the tranformation?
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Do the girls believe touching the feather will somehow reverse the tranformation?
Yes
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Were the girls fooling with a ouiji board when the accidental transformation happened?
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Were the girls fooling with a ouiji board when the accidental transformation happened?
No
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Did they throw some of the butter out the window to see a butter fly?
I think you're on to something here.
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Did they throw some of the butter out the window to see a butter fly?
No
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Is Samantha a feather because of the 'ol "Light as a feather, stiff as a board" sleepover ritual?
Was this performed at any time during the sleepover?
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Is Samantha a feather because of the 'ol "Light as a feather, stiff as a board" sleepover ritual?
Yes
Was this performed at any time during the sleepover?
Yes
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/me still can't draw conclusions.
Is the butter the kind that would be used for cooking?
Or is it the kind that might be used as a beauty product or to treat a skin condition?
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My knowledge of sleepover rituals is lacking.
To the tune of totally.
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Is the sleepover at Samantha's house?
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Is the butter the kind that would be used for cooking?
Yes
Or is it the kind that might be used as a beauty product or to treat a skin condition?
No
Is the sleepover at Samantha's house?
Yes
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Does Samantha have the plague?
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My knowledge of sleepover rituals is lacking.
To the tune of totally.
Likewise. :|
I wiki'd it, though...
One participant lies flat on the floor, and then the others space themselves around him or her, each placing their fingers underneath his or her body. The person closest to the head commonly begins by saying "Once the roads were icy and cold", which the others repeat; then "A woman lost control of her steering wheel" is spoken and repeated back. Finally the last sentence "When they found her she was light as a feather, stiff as a board" is said and the phrase is chanted by the others repeat. Some people report[1] that the apparent weight of the person lifted seems lower than expected or that the person becomes completely weightless.
:-o
Are the girls trying to transform Samantha back by doing the exact opposite thing they did before in that game, which is...putting fingers on her instead of underneath her?
Did the girls butter the feather to transform it back?
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Was the butter applied while Samantha was a girl, or when she was a feather?
Did the father know that the girls were sleeping over?
Did the father confront the girls?
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Are the girls trying to transform Samantha back by doing the exact opposite thing they did before in that game, which is...putting fingers on her instead of underneath her?
No
Did the girls butter the feather to transform it back?
Yes
Was the butter applied while Samantha was a girl?
No
When she was a feather?
Yes
Did the father know that the girls were sleeping over?
Yes
Did the father confront the girls?
Yes
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Did the girls deny knowing where Samantha was?
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Did the girls deny knowing where Samantha was?
Yes
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Does it really matter that the butter was from a tub?
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Does it really matter that the butter was from a tub?
No
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Is the butter from popcorn?
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Is the butter from popcorn?
Yes
I don't want to mislead you, though. The butter on the feather was placed there on purpose. The fact that the butter was purchased for the popcorn is coincidental.
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Do you realize you just made your 4000th post here, and it was about butter? ;)
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Do you realize you just made your 4000th post here, and it was about butter? ;)
Yes.
I do now.
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Result: Everyone fails.
Here's the story upon which I based this case. I only changed it slightly for my purposes.
Samantha = Megan
Five girls = Six girls
Megan lay on the table while the six of us stood around her with just our fingertips under her. We chanted "light as a feather, stiff as a board" and waited for her to rise up. Then we all screamed out, because Megan didn't just rise up she turned into a feather, a very stiff feather. We did not read the fine print on the bottom of the paper, which told us how to make people float. It said that if the person turns into feather, go to the back of the book. All of a sudden, we heard a knock on the door. It was Nick, Megan's dad.
"What are we going to do?" we all whispered.
I reached and locked the door so he could not come in a find his daughter gone.
"Girls," Megan's dad called from outside the door, "I have some cookies and milk for you all! I also brought a movie and some popcorn."
"Oh ummm...we will be right there. We are changing--hold on!" I said.
"OK, I will wait!" Nick replied.
"Go and turn on Meg's shower, so her dad will not worry about where she is!" I whispered to one of the girls to do.
"OK, you may come in now," I called to Nick.
"Hey were is Megan?" Nick asked.
"Oh...she is in the shower," said Jennifer, one of the other girls at the party.
"Why?" Nick asked.
"She wanted to freshen up," I said.
"Oh, alright," Nick said.
We had placed Megan--in feather form--on the windowsill, and we had forgotten that Nick was allergic to feathers. He started to sneeze, so he opened the window and Megan flew out the window! She landed in a pile of leaves. We all gasped.
"What is wrong? Nick asked us.
"Oh nothing...we just...ummm--"
"You what?"
"We just...ummm...we just love your popcorn so much!"
"Well thank you. I need to run to the store. I will be back in an hour or so. Is that OK with you girls?" Nick asked us.
"Yes, that is fine with us." We all answered.
After we saw Nick pull out if the driveway, we rushed to the front yard. We started looking franticly through the leaves. Then three of us found three different feathers that looked exactly alike! We started thinking: Jennifer remembered that Megan was stiff as a board, so we checked the feathers. Two of them were stiff as a board, so we threw the feather that was not stiff out the window. We set the feathers on the table in Megan's room. We opened the back of the book, and it said we would need the right feather. We looked down at the two feathers. I kept reading.
"Hey you guys, it says here that if you do the wrong feather, it will turn into a pen!" I said to the girls.
"So?" Jennifer asked.
"So, We can do both feathers!" I said.
"Yeah" we all said!
I was getting out the ingredients out of the cabinets when Nick reappeared.
"Hey girls," Nick called from his car. "Can you came help me?"
"We will be right there!" I called.
"OK," Nick called back.
"What are we going to do?" I mumbled, "Megan is still a feather! And we are missing this stuff called...Magic Butter? We might have to go to the store or something, I don't know," I told the girls while walking to Nick's car.
"Hi girls, where is Megan?" Nick asked us while handing us some bags of food.
"Oh, she is upstairs the on the phone with her mom!" I told Nick.
"OK," he said. "Have you eaten all of your popcorn yet?" Nick asked us while we were all putting away the food.
"No, not yet." I replied.
"Good, because I got this stuff called "Magic Butter. You can put it on your popcorn, and it will taste better!" Nick said passing it to us.
"We would love to use--I mean, try--it!" I said.
We all ran up to Megan's room, and we followed the instructions on how to turn Megan back. We all stood around the feather, with just two fingers under her and chanted: "Megan, Megan, come back now." We poured the Magic Butter on the feather, put Megan's favourite food on top of it, and chanted again: "Megan, Megan, come back now." And POOF! She was lying on her desk in her real body, and we all screamed in delight!
"We are glad to have you back Megan!"
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Samantha's father is out searching for his daughter.
No fair, he was at the store! :x
Eh, I don't think it would have made any difference to me. There's no way in heck I could have pieced all that together anyways. I do enjoy these things because they make me wake up my imagination.
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Result: Everyone fails.
Here's the story upon which I based this case. I only changed it slightly for my purposes.
Samantha = Megan
Five girls = Six girls
Megan lay on the table while the six of us stood around her with just our fingertips under her. We chanted "light as a feather, stiff as a board" and waited for her to rise up. Then we all screamed out, because Megan didn't just rise up she turned into a feather, a very stiff feather. We did not read the fine print on the bottom of the paper, which told us how to make people float. It said that if the person turns into feather, go to the back of the book. All of a sudden, we heard a knock on the door. It was Nick, Megan's dad.
"What are we going to do?" we all whispered.
I reached and locked the door so he could not come in a find his daughter gone.
"Girls," Megan's dad called from outside the door, "I have some cookies and milk for you all! I also brought a movie and some popcorn."
"Oh ummm...we will be right there. We are changing--hold on!" I said.
"OK, I will wait!" Nick replied.
"Go and turn on Meg's shower, so her dad will not worry about where she is!" I whispered to one of the girls to do.
"OK, you may come in now," I called to Nick.
"Hey were is Megan?" Nick asked.
"Oh...she is in the shower," said Jennifer, one of the other girls at the party.
"Why?" Nick asked.
"She wanted to freshen up," I said.
"Oh, alright," Nick said.
We had placed Megan--in feather form--on the windowsill, and we had forgotten that Nick was allergic to feathers. He started to sneeze, so he opened the window and Megan flew out the window! She landed in a pile of leaves. We all gasped.
"What is wrong? Nick asked us.
"Oh nothing...we just...ummm--"
"You what?"
"We just...ummm...we just love your popcorn so much!"
"Well thank you. I need to run to the store. I will be back in an hour or so. Is that OK with you girls?" Nick asked us.
"Yes, that is fine with us." We all answered.
After we saw Nick pull out if the driveway, we rushed to the front yard. We started looking franticly through the leaves. Then three of us found three different feathers that looked exactly alike! We started thinking: Jennifer remembered that Megan was stiff as a board, so we checked the feathers. Two of them were stiff as a board, so we threw the feather that was not stiff out the window. We set the feathers on the table in Megan's room. We opened the back of the book, and it said we would need the right feather. We looked down at the two feathers. I kept reading.
"Hey you guys, it says here that if you do the wrong feather, it will turn into a pen!" I said to the girls.
"So?" Jennifer asked.
"So, We can do both feathers!" I said.
"Yeah" we all said!
I was getting out the ingredients out of the cabinets when Nick reappeared.
"Hey girls," Nick called from his car. "Can you came help me?"
"We will be right there!" I called.
"OK," Nick called back.
"What are we going to do?" I mumbled, "Megan is still a feather! And we are missing this stuff called...Magic Butter? We might have to go to the store or something, I don't know," I told the girls while walking to Nick's car.
"Hi girls, where is Megan?" Nick asked us while handing us some bags of food.
"Oh, she is upstairs the on the phone with her mom!" I told Nick.
"OK," he said. "Have you eaten all of your popcorn yet?" Nick asked us while we were all putting away the food.
"No, not yet." I replied.
"Good, because I got this stuff called "Magic Butter. You can put it on your popcorn, and it will taste better!" Nick said passing it to us.
"We would love to use--I mean, try--it!" I said.
We all ran up to Megan's room, and we followed the instructions on how to turn Megan back. We all stood around the feather, with just two fingers under her and chanted: "Megan, Megan, come back now." We poured the Magic Butter on the feather, put Megan's favourite food on top of it, and chanted again: "Megan, Megan, come back now." And POOF! She was lying on her desk in her real body, and we all screamed in delight!
"We are glad to have you back Megan!"
I knew it!
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That was hard. I think they did pretty good.
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Absolutely. I am considering awarding partial points.
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Eh, I don't think it would have made any difference to me. There's no way in heck I could have pieced all that together anyways. I do enjoy these things because they make me wake up my imagination.
Likewise. But hey, it reminded me to play Black Stories once again. Even though those cases are sometimes easier. :P
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Magic butter, eh?