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I'm not sure they're alive, just making a case for them being alive to try to get the witches to counter if it's false or confirm if it's true. I could have produced the same effect by saying they aren't alive and ask the witches to counter that. But it's much easier to find evidence that they are alive than it is to find evidence that they're not alive, without naming specific objects that they might be and producing a weaker attack with the blue.

Laser motion sensors and security cameras cannot speak, cannot cause footsteps, and cannot be hidden from until they pass by (Edit: well maybe a sweeping camera could, but not a laser). So since Molly took the latest swing and our side's up: Witch of Secrets: the daemons are alive As a side question, need we spoilerize stuff, particularly blue truth questions? It makes it slightly more cumbersome to read through, and this seems like it will need to be a team effort.

Although sort of subjective, I'd still consider a race car to be taking things a little too literally as an answer. Not a comet, as I don't think they have steel toes or anything of the like (tho admittedly my astrogeology is nothing to write home about). A watch could fit quite a lot, but I'm not sure about it leaving any streamers in its wake.

Neither a compass, which I don't think is typically known for having anything interpretable as a fastened belt, nor a helicopter, since my typical riddling approach is to write a riddle that seems like it's describing one thing when taken literally and title it "I'm not a -that thing-" (in this case a renegade pilot), while it's actually describing something else when taken figuratively. And a helicopter would be too closely related to a renegade pilot to make for a satisfying riddle answer.

Here's a way to get 2/3 of the cards right in an arbitrarily large deck, or 35/52 (67.3%) of a standard deck of playing cards.

Edit: miscounted, going back to make some corrections

Thanks for kicking this one off, Thalia. Not a typewriter, although I can imagine how many of the clues might fit that answer.

About myself, a fastened belt The latch is attached in a vice A plan is hatched, a spin is felt Ignore it at perilous price The planes will fly by discs, you know Thus error might not be incurred Upon the floor's a steel toe (A heel is simply absurd!) The head of state upon my throne Has nary a hope he could run Although I may be less well-known I'm surely the mightier one With fabled speed I charge ahead Leave dozens of streamers behind Should I remain alive or dead? The latter if strut's malaligned

Ok, just for the fun of it, and since I know Molly is dying to go To the Witch of Doubt: Time Out is HERMETICUS, the Witch of Sighs Sapphire Witch.  Farewell, dear Crowther, servant true!  HERMETICUS, this one goes to you;  You've answered it with great precision.  Thus speak I, the Witch of Vision! ANNABEL, the Sapphire Witch, Witch of Vision/Doubt But I'm so sure it's not really true that maybe I should have made it a brown truth instead of a blue truth

I'll take an easy one for now. To the Witch of Secrets: Thalassa has a cell phone. Incidentally, can we use a blue truth on any of the other witches present?

I get the feeling this isn't a typical "what am I" type.

I got a different answer. But just to be sure about one important point

Here's one implementation of the sort of approach EventHorizon was talking about Edit: just saw that EventHorizon posted a different approach as I was typing which gives 32 guaranteed predictions, better than the 30 with this strategy.

Ok, just a tiny bit better:

A slight tweak of my initial approach would on average do a little better than getting half the suits right, but still can't guarantee more than half. For the sake of getting at least one strategy out to start things off...

I thought plainglazed was hinting at it with

I can think of a strategy that will guarantee that at least half of the cards' suits will be correctly predicted fairly easily. I'll ponder a little further and see if I can do any better.

I think that plainglazed has it. I should have realized this might be a different type of riddle than usual when I started reaching at straws like cloned hobbits.

I made a spreadsheet to solve it at first, but after seeing what emerged, I was determined to solve it with equations. This might be a bit wordy, but:

plainglazed scores on this riddle

I can't make any of these fit adequately no matter how hard I try to force a square peg into a round hole, so I'd guess you're neither

A smelly pigpen, some might say That's life around the arch I bring along my bouncing babe To toss amid our march I bite the dust and strike by side See things in black and white On pins and needles, tongue is tied Though peers would squeal, or might

Do the fisherman have a practically infinite amount of fishing line? And is it just one big piece or can it be cut it into several different pieces?

Wow, Time Out just solved two riddles right off the bat! Well done, TO.

They say a good place to begin is at the beginning...