From: Jesse Welton (jwelton_at_pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 07:22:49 PDT
187:5 Jonathan David Amery 2002-06-26 12:31:55 VALID -1 > > What is the pattern of the capital letters in the last line of this rule? > > 187:4 tells us that: > > "All future rules must pose a question and must answer the questions > posed by its nearest precedent." > > HOWeVer It failS to state That only valid Rule scan be nearest precEdents. Apology: I'm terribly sorry to everyone for getting to this so late. It's especially bad given the linkage between each rule and its direct predecessor. Bad Judge Jesse. No biscuit. (-2 style for the Judge.) Validity: The riddle is, sadly, malformed. It doesn't have the intended answer. Is a riddle a riddle, if it doesn't have an elegant answer? It seems that in the absence of an elegant answer, this riddle might reduce to little more than "The pattern is that letters 1, 2, 3, 5 ... are capitalized." But that's just counting, not a puzzle at all. On the other hand, who's to say that there isn't a somewhat elegant answer that would make it a viable riddle, just not the one intended? With that in mind, I must conclude that it is, in fact, a riddle. There are no other problems. VALID. Style: The puzzle isn't, to me, very riddle-like. The miscount makes this even worse. On the other hand, the restriction tightens the meaning of 187:4. On balance, I'll give it -1. -Judge "Slowpoke" Jesse -- Rule Date: 2002-06-28 14:23:08 GMT
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