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[holeful]

I've been thinking about puzzles lately. They can be good team building activities! So here's one to work on;
110020011102011’103 001 033032011-103110033102121 020033111103011 021032 113020021003020 011112011102121110020021032013 021103 121011030030033113. 121011030030033113 113001030030103, 121011030030033113 010033033102103, 121011030030033113 012111102032021110111102011. 113020001110 003033030033102 001102011 110020011 103110001021102103?

Hints;
1: Simplify
2:

[PS: If you feel like your character would be able to solve this but you personally cannot or will not do math, you can dm me or hit me on discord for a hint/the answer! Otherwise please just bully Fukuda for this horseshit.]

Comments

[swordhardy]

What does a book have to do with stairs?

[holeful]

Ah, sorry, "story" here refers to the number of levels in the house. The house only has one floor. Does that help?

[swordhardy]

Does it have a basement?

[holeful]

[I'm crying Fukuda basically fed him the answer and we're still going.]

It doesn't.

[swordhardy]

[ look he has QUESTIONS ]

Who decided to paint it all yellow?

[holeful]

[SIR!!!]

I mean, it's not a real house, but I'd assume the owner?

[swordhardy]

What if the owner's elderly? There's no way an elderly person could paint a whole house yellow. That's just unreasonable.

[holeful]

[Is this karma.]

Well then I supposed they'd have hired someone to paint it for them?

[swordhardy]

[ no this is Rokurou ]

Woah, just any someone? Did they charge a reasonable rate? It's pretty common for people to take advantage of the elderly.

I feel like this house has some problems.

[holeful]

Well like I said it's not a real house, it's just made up for the sake of the riddle? Which you still haven't answered by the way.

[swordhardy]

The answer ... is 1.

[holeful]

The question was what color are the stairs.

[swordhardy]

Oh. I forgot.

[holeful]

[I want to share with you Tori (Jack's player)'s commentary on the previous exchange]

Would it help if I told you it was a trick question?
[A normal person would have lost their patience ages ago.]

[swordhardy]

[ JKSHGjgjkh sobbing, at least i'm cute ♥️♥️♥️ ]

Well, obviously ... or else the answer would have been 1.
Or yellow.
Did we agree that it's not yellow?

[holeful]

[Imagine being so dumb you push a former serial killer to become a current serial killer again.]

Yes. The answer is not yellow. It's also not any other color, despite the format of the question. That's why it's a trick question.

[swordhardy]

[ as a current killer i approve of this message. ]

So there are ... no stairs?

[holeful]

[DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM]

Exactly! There's only one floor after all. The way the question is asked makes your gut answer "yellow," but really there's no stairs to paint!

[swordhardy]

[ murder 👏 murder 👏 murder 👏 ]

Oh, I get it! Haha, that's a good one. I'll have to remember it to tell someone else.

[holeful]

[The murder you do and the murder he does are completely different things, Rokurou!!!]

Yeah! To be honest I was a bit worried about you for a minute there.

[swordhardy]

[ then suffer as his straight man forever, ]

I'm not really a riddle kind of guy. But hey, it's fun to change things up every now and then.

[holeful]

[Stop he's not supposed to be the straight man!!! He's supposed to be the insane one!!!]

What kind of guy are you, then?

[swordhardy]

[ move over Brenda there's a new girl in town!!! ]

The swordsman kind of guy. Sword guy? I like fishing too, though.

[holeful]

Haha, I can't say I know much about either so you have me beat in those areas! I used to go to the beach sometimes when I was little, but I never learned how to fish. And most swords these days are illegal to own and even the ones that aren't you can't generally carry it around in public.

[swordhardy]

So you're more of a scholarly type of guy? That explains the difficult riddle about your yellow house.