Die Hard 3

Over the weekend I tried to incorporate the third puzzle into the third ring. After some thought and understanding of how these blocks would work with the consideration to the rotation of the world I realised that there were too many variables that created a lot of complications.

Die Hard 3 water riddle
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So with more brainstorming I started to remember a riddle in Die Hard 3 that used water jugs. As Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson run around New York, they get to a riddle with a 3 gallon and a 5 gallon jugs. Using both of them they have to make 4 gallon out of the fountain water to defuse a bomb. Here is the explanation and solution. I see this as an interesting puzzle that is not too hard and can be easily coded into my game. I want to make it though not on jugs if water but passageways into the end of the puzzle as if to get the final confirmation of the emails being sent.

I went around asking other students for ideas for the second puzzle as it was still causing me trouble as to what I could use in relation to the gaining contacts of the email hacking part. After some help from Jenny Ko I am now creating a puzzle based on putting colours together. I will have coloured letterboxes and scattered coloured newspapers around the ring to which the player will use the character to pick them up and put in the letterboxes of the same colour. I think this works well as a representation of gaining the information from the emails.

I will go back to using a dog like figure as the creature being a maildog. 

I see that these puzzles are beginning to have complexity that is not required or even understood by the viewer. I think they need to step back and have just the simple explanation to their purpose and allow the audience to take as much meaning from them as they want. This is something I will work on for my contextual statement.

References

How to Solve the Water Jug Riddle from Die Hard 3: 9 steps. (n.d.). Retrieved October 14, 2012, from http://www.wikihow.com/Solve-the-Water-Jug-Riddle-from-Die-Hard-3

McTiernan, J. (1995). Die Hard: With a Vengeance. Action, Crime, Thriller.