As has probably been fairly obvious, I’m completely enamoured with Heroes of Newerth and have been in the closed beta for awhile. As a result of this, beta testers are occasionally given extra keys to invite other players into the game – and I’ve come across an extra key that ONE OF YOU JUST MIGHT GET! Read below the cut for more.
Here is what you need to do: answer two of the three following riddles correctly, and then email it to me at the address listed on this website. I’ll amend this post later to include where I got the riddles – not including them now to prevent cheating. Not that you couldn’t just do a Google search – but that defeats the purpose of this, so please don’t be a dickbag about things.
1. What thing has keys that do not open locks, spaces that contain no room, and is something that you can enter – but never go inside of?
2. What English word is nine letters long, and can remain an English word at each step as you remove one letter at a time, right down to a single letter? Extra credit: dissect the word in the correct order.
3. A man had 12 toothpicks in front of him. He took one away. Now he had 9 in front of him. How is this possible?
edit: click “About” at the top for my email – I don’t want to place it in too many spots on the site. Fuck robots!
edit2: Congratulations, Ethan! Your HoN key will be sent when I get confirmation of your email address. For those curious, here are the answers (as provided by Ethan):
1: A keyboard.
2: Through a clever bit of reverse-engineering – something I hadn’t really thought to do – Ethan provided the following:
“I was actually pouring over a dictionary for a bit and I got it by starting with I or a and adding a letter until I got to nine letters that made a word each time.
I got Startling
-l=starting
-t=staring
-a=string
-r=sting
-t=sing
-g=sin
-s=in
-n=i
i”
3: The man spelt the word “nine” with the remaining toothpicks.
Ignore, if you would, the image quality. Taken from the HoN website.
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