| Author | Message | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4595 Registered: 12-2000 |
However hard they tried, they didn't find them | ||
| Vadron (Vadron)
New member Username: Vadron Post Number: 92 Registered: 5-2010 |
Could they have found them? Or was it impossible? They- HAM? They 1=They 2? Is them: people? Animals? Objects? Ideas? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4596 Registered: 12-2000 |
Could they have found them? yes Or was it impossible? no They- HAM? yes, no, irrelevant They 1=They 2? yesIs them: people? no Animals? no Objects? yes Ideas? no | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 2034 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did they want to find them? So "they" are children, right? Is a game going on? Are they in school? Is this a scavenger hunt? Are the objects of varying shapes and sizes? Or more than one of the same object? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4597 Registered: 12-2000 |
Did they want to find them? yes So "they" are children, right? yes Is a game going on? no Are they in school? no Is this a scavenger hunt? no Are the objects of varying shapes and sizes? yes Or more than one of the same object? no | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 2540 Registered: 9-2009 |
Coult they see the objects? but failed to recognize them? Or were they hidden from view? Are the objects bigger than: bateria? The point on this question mark? A fingernail? Mouse? Bread box? Bigger than them? Did they look in the wrong places? Were they mislead? Real physical objects? Or images on paper? Or in a computer? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4598 Registered: 12-2000 |
Coult they see the objects? possibly, possibly not but failed to recognize them? if they did see them they failed to recognize them Or were they hidden from view? again it's possible Are the objects bigger than: bateria? yes The point on this question mark? yes A fingernail? yes Mouse? this size upwards Bread box? yes Bigger than them? probably not that much bigger than a breadbox Did they look in the wrong places? yes Were they mislead? yope Real physical objects? yes Or images on paper? no Or in a computer? no | ||
| Brtd (Brtd)
New member Username: Brtd Post Number: 23 Registered: 7-2010 |
Were the objects deliberately hidden from the children? Or were they just lost? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4599 Registered: 12-2000 |
Were the objects deliberately hidden from the children? where they were placed was quite deliberate Or were they just lost? no | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 3305 Registered: 5-2003 |
Were they looking for a manufactured item? Food? Something alive? Were they indoors? Outdoors? Location otherwise relevant? Is anyone besides the children relevant? Did a person hide something from them? If so, was it someone they knew? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4601 Registered: 12-2000 |
Were they looking for a manufactured item? yes, plural Food? possibly, but not just food Something alive? no Were they indoors? this one Outdoors? Location otherwise relevant? geographical location not relevant Is anyone besides the children relevant? yes Did a person hide something from them? yesIf so, was it someone they knew? yes | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4602 Registered: 12-2000 |
I'll be away for a week from tomorrow. Not sure whether I'll have much internet access. | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 2 Registered: 7-2010 |
Were the items hidden by an adult? Their parents? Other relative? Teacher? Or was it another child? A sibling? A friend? A child that was angry with the searching children? Or one who generally didn't get along with? Did whoever hid the items do it to punish the children? To tease them? Were (some of) the items things the children had used before? If so, did they do so regularly? Have they never used them before? Or are they new? Are the items supposed to be presents/surprises for the children and whoever hid them didn't want them to see them before a certain time? Are the children in a hurry? Do they need the items immediately? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4603 Registered: 12-2000 |
Welcome to the forum Were the items hidden by an adult? yes Their parents? yes Other relative? Teacher? Or was it another child? A sibling? A friend? A child that was angry with the searching children? Or one who generally didn't get along with? none of these Did whoever hid the items do it to punish the children? not at all To tease them? Were (some of) the items things the children had used before? no If so, did they do so regularly? Have they never used them before? this one Or are they new? yes Are the items supposed to be presents/surprises for the children and whoever hid them didn't want them to see them before a certain time? correct Are the children in a hurry? not necessarily Do they need the items immediately? no | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 7 Registered: 7-2010 |
Thanks! :-) Are the children looking for their Easter presents? Christmas presents? Birthday presents? Gifts associated with a different holiday? Or occasion? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4604 Registered: 12-2000 |
Are the children looking for their Easter presents? Christmas presents? this one Birthday presents? Gifts associated with a different holiday? Or occasion? | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 8 Registered: 7-2010 |
So the children wanted to see their presents before the actual gift giving? And their parents had known that they would look for them and said something that set them on the wrong track so they'd look only in certain places although the presents were somewhere else? And since the children didn't expect to find their presents in a place other than, let's say their parents' bedroom, it could be that they had already seen them in, let's say the living room, but it didn't occur to them that these are their presents because they had to be in the bedroom? So the presents could well be right behind them (reference to the title) when the children were in the living room but they didn't realize it because, in their mind, nothing that's not in the bedroom can be a present? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4606 Registered: 12-2000 |
So the children wanted to see their presents before the actual gift giving? yes And their parents had known that they would look for them yes and said something that set them on the wrong track so they'd look only in certain places although the presents were somewhere else? no And since the children didn't expect to find their presents in a place other than, let's say their parents' bedroom, it could be that they had already seen them in, no let's say the living room, but it didn't occur to them that these are their presents because they had to be in the bedroom? nope So the presents could well be right behind them yes(reference to the title) when the children were in the living room no but they didn't realize it because, in their mind, nothing that's not in the bedroom can be a present? nope | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 10 Registered: 7-2010 |
Maybe that's a little far out, but... Did the parents (knowing the children would consider that way too obvious to believe that's the real place) truthfully told them where to find the presents and the children looked everywhere but there thinking their parents would never give away the place prematurely? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4608 Registered: 12-2000 |
Maybe that's a little far out, but... Did the parents (knowing the children would consider that way too obvious to believe that's the real place)yes truthfully told them where to find the presents no and the children looked everywhere but there yes thinking their parents would never give away the place prematurely? they just knew they were hidden, but they didn't find them | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 12 Registered: 7-2010 |
Were the presents lying underneath the Christmas tree all the time? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4609 Registered: 12-2000 |
Were the presents lying underneath the Christmas tree all the time? no, but the right sort of thinking | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 2051 Registered: 4-2010 |
Were the presents in the closet? In the stockings? In the children's rooms? Under their beds? The parents' bed? Were the parents holding them? Had the presents been wrapped yet? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 4610 Registered: 12-2000 |
Were the presents in the closet? yes In the stockings? In the children's rooms? yes Under their beds? The parents' bed? Were the parents holding them? Had the presents been wrapped yet? ******** SPOILER ********** Simple story - the mother of the story told how she hid the children's Christmas presents in their own closets, knowing that they wouldn't look in there. Maybe their clothes 'lived' on the floor and it was only her who put them away. She also 'hid' newly made cookies in the cookie jar, and would laugh at their attempts to hunt throughout the entire kitchen for them, anywhere but where they belonged. Well done | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 2084 Registered: 4-2010 |
Nice puzzle! Am I the only one who is reminded of The Purloined Letter a little bit? |
