Lazy Dungeon Master - Vol. 2 Ch. 9 - Dungeon Battle (Part 1)

[MangaDex]

 

[xininja]

OH boy we're here. I remember reading the light novel a few years ago. The true answer was amazing

 

[Maleckite]

@xininja yes it's so easy to solve

thanks for the chap

 

[Needhydra]

ah before i forget the russian group AkaiYuhiMun team is the group that we share scripts and cleaning with they had this up for a month already so teehee.

 

[ShionVaynex]

@xininja Wrong!!!
*open pitfall sounds*
the True answer was not amazing
*open pitfall sounds*
FFFFFFFFFFFFFffffuuuuu.............*Flob

 

[Metasepia]

@xininja

Dude, the answer is easy, don't over think it.

 

[Dezaki]

if i have to guess

Spoiler

"just literally split the silver into three parts for 3 people"

 

[youiri65]

what chapter is this in the LN?

 

[Hotgps]

bro i bet goblin slayer will have fun at the bottom of that pit in the next chapter

 

[Gianoria]

@Dezaki
I'm pretty sure that's wrong.

Spoiler

Look at the first line of the riddle.
It literally says that the answer is easy.
The rest on the riddle is just there to misdirect you.

 

[Kazedoom]

Hint for those overthink it : it’s grade school type of riddle.

 

[mommunism]

This riddle gimmick is incredibly stupid. There isn't one correct answer to a question like that, not to mention a way of verifying that such a colloquial test even has a "correct" answer, which means the person that made it gets to choose whatever answer they personally prefer. That of course means they can just choose something super obscure that nobody would ever guess. In the first place, though, there isn't even a reason for the riddle to exist rather than just a trapdoor that kills everything.

 

[JackApostrophe]

@mommunism

There's one correct answer to this specific riddle. You just have to be simple minded to see it. The point of the riddle is that it tricks smart people into thinking there's a complicated answer.

 

[Simpleton]

I just gotta say wonderful sfx

 

[Nk9bjP4A]

I need some meat.

 

[Red225]

There's multiple ways of answering the riddle, but if you take into account the "don't overthink it", the simplest answer should be the correct one.

However, @mommunism the trap is working perfectly if the enemy are wasting both time and monsters on it. I recall one story which bade adventurers to answer an obscure riddle, and the answer to the riddle is "the trap is sound activated, fool, if you shout your answer out the trap activates and kills you". People expect to be rewarded for a correct answer for a riddle. Thus if you lure them into trying to solve your puzzle, whether there is actually a solution or not, you're winning.

An adventuring party might see a trap door and bypass it with a ladder, but an adventuring party won't bother with the ladder if there's a riddle, they'll keep trying to solve the riddle until they start complaining to the GM (unless they're smart and realise it's just another trap to get folks killed)

 

[mommunism]

@JackApostrophe No there isn't. There are several answers that would all be explicitly correct, including the one that was given in the manga. That answer was easy and it was a solution the the problem presented. No other answer could be more correct, they're just up to subjective interpretation based on how you choose to define the words in the description.

 

[bakmiekuah]

JEBAITED LOL

 

[rudezki]

GLORIOUS NIPPON STEEL CUTTING NOISES

 

[mommunism]

@Red225 The notion that overthinking it defines the correct answer proves my point if anything. This means the first answer to come to anybody's mind is necessarily correct, because any other answer would require more thinking. There is no objective metric for simplicity of the answer.

The riddle being fake would not make this plot point any less stupid. That would mean that an experienced dungeon master fell for something that's clearly impossible to create in a dungeon. If the point of this chapter is to show that the main character can beat an imbecile in a battle of wits, it's not worth reading.