1st Riddle: text

[nodice]

Take away all _____'s parts and and it's still unchanged.

[ Is he going to post this entirely without context as his introduction to the prison? Yes, yes, he is. ]

Comments

[mysterioustransferstudent]

Oh? Was this a test?

[Koizumi was all about the riddle-solving attitude. He was the over-analytical type even before, and now that he was cooped up in prison all the time his mind was constantly in overdrive trying to find something interesting to do.]

[nodice]

Force of habit, oops.

If it was a test... would that change anything for you?

[mysterioustransferstudent]

Not particularly, but I would want to know what was being evaluated.

[nodice]

Do you have a guess?

[mysterioustransferstudent]

Now now, don't get greedy. You can't go asking all the questions without offering any answers. People might think you're up to something.

[nodice]

Give it some time and they might not even be mistaken, who knows.

But fair enough. This was a simple personality evaluation - if I'd have to give it a name I'd say I was testing 'common sense', but that term implies people have enough in common to have a true shared basis for their thoughts to begin with.

[mysterioustransferstudent]

I would say that we have quite a bit in common here, wouldn't you? We share a common situation, many of us share a common culture, and with a few outliers, we're around the same age. Surely, many common patterns of behavior and communication would arise from such similarities. One could argue that this emergent 'common sense' tells you nothing about the underlying personality that produces it because you can't look into someone's mind and see their lines of reasoning, but that might be a self-defeating argument since giving such an answer would be the sort of departure from 'common sense' which reveals one's personality.