[HPforGrownups] Re: Ron's chess-playing skills (was Howgarts Clubs - Art, Music, and Chess).

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 85719

On 23 Nov 2003 at 1:24, o_caipora wrote:

> Something's bothered me since the first book, and I hope someone has 
> an answer.
> 
> One of the puzzles was pure logic, the potions. Reading that, it took 
> paper, pencil and fifteen minutes to see that the clues were 
> consistent, and a bit longer to see that they were incomplete. The 
> text didn't have enough clues. There had to be a diagram showing the 
> heights of the bottles (or the shapes, I don't have the book here).

The size - you can pretty easily narrow it down to one of two bottles using the 
clues given, but without knowing the size (specifically you need to know which 
one is the 'dwarf', you can't pick between those two.
 
> This is probably a point settled long ago, but what gives? Did the 
> British edition have a diagram cut in the American? Did she 
> intentionally give a puzzle without giving the reader enough clues?  
> Was it a mistake?

AFAIK, there was never any diagram - I'd have liked one myself.




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