I’m not nearly as clever as I think I am…

So I am playing Zelda last night and I need to get into the pirate’s ship. There’s a riddle, ‘I can be filled with water or sail upon the sea, what am I” (I’m paraphrasing.).

Sheesh is that easy I think, Vessel!

Bzzt, no joy, the pirates won’t let me in. So I wander around randomly smiting weeds with my sword, thinking. Wait, a pirate ship, seas, shipwrecked, message in a bottle!.

Bzzt, no joy. More weed whacking with sword ensues, but nothing else occurs to me. I start to conclude the game designers are cheating. Later I figure out through a cut scene that the password is schooner and am like schooner? schooner??? WTF does schooner have to do with being filled with water? A sunken boat? That’s a stretch. I end up figuring it is a bad translation or something. Except that later I check it on dict.org and discover that my vocabulary is not as good as I think it is. Go check for yourself if you want the definition. It wasn’t a bad translation though I will say that.

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  1. dlh says:
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    The link? It works fine for me, not sure why it’s causing you a problem. Or do you mean the solution to the puzzle in the game? It might be that you need to get to the right place to learn the solution in-game before the pirate accepts the answer. It is the correct one though I promise you 😉 [hint to follow]

    Examine the bomb shop from all angles. ALL angles. Should be some way to clamber around on there, shouldn’t there?

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  2. Jeff says:
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    Thank you. Schooner works. I guess the answer was flashing at certain places but our littlest kid didn’t bother to read it. Our other son had a different riddle at that point in the game so he was no help.

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  3. barry says:
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    that is the password but you have to go to the bomb shop and listen to the pirates talking first or the password will NOT!!! work.

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