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Carification: by "one key for each lock" I mean that there are four keys which will each open one lock, not that there's a single master key that opens all of the locks.

As I was pondering Pirates of the Carribean, I thought of some approaches that were probably off topic but nonetheless interesting. Suppose you have four pirates and want to make a treasure chest that will open when any three decide to open it. You only have four locks, and one key for each lock. How would you do it?

Maybe this hint will open some more possibilities.

Just put one lock on it and give me the key. I'll make sure the treasure is nice and safe. Oh, wait, this isn't one of my puzzles, is it.

Not much action since the last hint, so here's another hint.

This hint made me think of

This just seems to fit too well to be far off

The first word in the step after large, when you're eating, would be

I say that you are...

All you people who want to pilot a boat of garbage across a river of lava sure are brave! But as the saying goes, it's so crazy it just might work. At any rate, I guess it's time for that hint I promised earlier.

Does it take a plasmid to tell that the last one is

Hah, I thought that

Here's what I came up with. I agree with the others who say there's no answer, at least if I'm interpreting the English in this question correctly.

LOL! But you won't want to miss this party; there's going to be a carnival in town for part III

In the last spoiler covering loopholes: It's too dangerous to try to carry a big load of garbage across cubes sitting in the lava if they're only touching at the corners, let alone trying to jump with it or throw it or pass it around.

This picks up where How would you cross puzzle land? left off. You've sold your fox, chicken, and grain from the previous puzzle and collected a handsome profit, which you're now eager to go have some fun with. You're on your way to party in the only nearby town, but you find that your path has been blocked. Where there was once a shallow river bed, there is now a river of flowing magma: a volcano has erupted and ruined your route! It would take a very long time to walk all the way around to the other side of the volcano to get around the river of lava, and also a very long time to walk downstream until the river of lava meets the sea to be quenched, so you decide to try to find a way across. Nearby, you see a bunch of logicians, none of whom are very short. You can tell they're logicians because they're sitting around wearing different colored hats and not saying anything. You also notice that from the time you spot them in the distance to the time you've walked up next to them, none of them have blurted out the color of their hats. You therefore conclude that these logicians aren't exactly the brightest bulbs in the chandelier. "Hey, can you guys give me a hand" you ask. One of the six logicians sitting outside snaps back, "Bah, we have no time for non-intellectuals like yourself. Bother neither us, nor the rest of our logician group who are inside our headquarters over there." You look toward the building he pointed to, and notice that one of the light bulbs is burned out. Getting an idea, you ask "Tell me, O logician, is the number of members in your group prime, or not?" He looks at you inquisitively and hesitantly replies "Our number is not prime." "Then there are eight among you" you state triumphantly. Amazed at your deductive powers, the logicians offer to aid your quest to cross the river of lava. One of them offers: "We could dismantle our headquarters and use the planks of wood to build a bridge, although no single plank is long enough to make it across and we have no good means of fastening them together." You take one look at their termite-infested hovel and decline. You then notice a horrid smell and ask them what it is. "Oh, that" one replies "is our garbage heap. We could never deduce a fair way of allocating garbage disposal duties, so it just piled up outside." NOW FOR THE PUZZLE: You find that each logician (and yourself) can pick up a pile of garbage and dump it somewhere in 1 minute. Each pile makes a 5 foot cube that can serve as a bridge over the lava. But once placed in the lava, such a cube will be consumed after 3 minutes. The pile of available garbage is practically infinite for the purposes of this puzzle. The width of the river is 220 feet (= 44 cubes of size 5 feet). You have disposed of the logicians' hats, so you can enlist the aid of all eight of them at once. How would you get across? (There are actually TWO answers that I have in mind, one of which is very logically-mined.) And finally, to get rid of some of the trivial solutions:

Interesting, doog and dab are backwards for good and bad. I came up with a different solution than reaymond, but that's because we had different interpretations of #4's statement. If BOTH 1 is a dab and 2 is a doog, is #4's satement true? I said yes, reaymond said no, so we're probably both correct depending on how you interpret it.

I'm afraid that a VERY similar riddle has already been posted here at Hotel Bill. I can't blame you for not finding the earlier post by searching the archive, though -- the old post was about people staying at a hotel instead of getting drinks at a bar. Good riddle, though!