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From the Ted Talk by Dan Finkel: Can you solve the world's most evil wizard riddle?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
It works, but with a ccath. MoldeVort starts in one cneror of the 5x5 braod. You have a few minutes to choose four distinct positive whole numbers. MoldeVort gets to say one of them, and if you can pick a square on the board whose center is exactly that distance away, the curse will focre him to move to that spot. Then he’ll have to choose any of the four numbers, and the process repeats until you can’t keep him inside the board with legal moves. Then he’ll break free of the splel and almost certainly kill you.
Open Cloze
It works, but with a _____. MoldeVort starts in one ______ of the 5x5 _____. You have a few minutes to choose four distinct positive whole numbers. MoldeVort gets to say one of them, and if you can pick a square on the board whose center is exactly that distance away, the curse will _____ him to move to that spot. Then he’ll have to choose any of the four numbers, and the process repeats until you can’t keep him inside the board with legal moves. Then he’ll break free of the _____ and almost certainly kill you.
Solution
- force
- spell
- catch
- board
- corner
Original Text
It works, but with a catch. MoldeVort starts in one corner of the 5x5 board. You have a few minutes to choose four distinct positive whole numbers. MoldeVort gets to say one of them, and if you can pick a square on the board whose center is exactly that distance away, the curse will force him to move to that spot. Then he’ll have to choose any of the four numbers, and the process repeats until you can’t keep him inside the board with legal moves. Then he’ll break free of the spell and almost certainly kill you.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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evil wizard |
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number larger |
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Important Words
- board
- break
- catch
- center
- choose
- corner
- curse
- distance
- distinct
- force
- free
- kill
- legal
- minutes
- moldevort
- move
- moves
- numbers
- pick
- positive
- process
- repeats
- spell
- spot
- square
- starts
- works