KQ Riddles!

[Deloria]

awesome... so...


A flower, a blade, a round
All before I am found
You'll need me to get past
The very next to last

Cassima? You gave her a ring, a rose and a dagger before you find her.

[awesomeasapossum]

awesome... so...


A flower, a blade, a round
All before I am found
You'll need me to get past
The very next to last

I'm almost positive you're right because you need her to have the dagger in the end to get past the "next to last" (Vizzier Alhazred)
Cassima? You gave her a ring, a rose and a dagger before you find her.

[Boogeyman]

Seems to me that Shamir is second to last, not Alhazred. The game is over once Alhazred is beaten.

[hercrabbiness]

I think it makes sense. "Next to last" would refer to the sequence in the riddle (flower, blade round), and to get past Alhazred's sword (a blade), you need Cassima.

[Delling]

I love the thinking on Cassima and really, really wish it were the answer... sadly, the answer is more regular than that... try thinking about boogeyman's answer and hercrabbiness's answer together and come up with something else..

[hercrabbiness]

I'm guessing that the flower is the rose, the blade is the skythe, and the round is the beast's ring. Is the answer the mirror of truth? In the short path of the game, you need it to get past Shamir, but I think that would be the third to last obstacle rather than the next to last (which is giving mint leaves to Shamir).

Or maybe the round is supposed to be the mirror and the answer is something different. Like... Beauty's clothes or something.

[Delling]

We seem to have a bit of a disconnect in regards to vocabulary: the poetic term "round" refers to what royal object? Still, the round is really kind of unimportant to the rest of the riddle: the first half of the riddle essentially tells you where to find the item. The second half tells you roughly where you use the item (item meaning you get it in your inventory)...

[Dangling]

The Rabbit's foot to get by Trilly Dilly the next to last gnome?

[Delling]

nopers

[PirateKingChris]

I have no idea on this riddle...heh

But I really need to reacquire the King's Quest games as many of the objects/puzzles in this thread I can't even remember! (I never beat King's Quest II or III though)

[koko_99_2001]

Another hint?

[Delling]

I'm running out of hints I'm afraid...

you've all figured out the game: KQ6
here let me quote the answers that you guys should be putting together to get at the right answer:

I guess the scthye, Alexander used it to cut through the rose hedge on the Isle of the Beast.

Okay! My guess is the dove tile in the catacombs, because the order of tiles that Alexander has to walk over is Rose, Rose, Rose, Scythe, Crown, Dove, Skull, finish. The rose is a flower and the scythe is a blade, but I don't understand how the crown would be "a round." But the dove is the second to last tile... so apart from the crown, everything else seems to fit jusst right.

[spoiler]If it's an item in your inventory, it's not the tile, but the interpretation that the tiles are in fact the first part of the riddle is correct. The scythe is wrong because it doesn't fit the first part completely nor the last part exactly, but there is something correct about it.[/spoiler]

...and it's an item in your inventory... I can't think of ways to make this plainer at this point...without just flat out giving it away... the spoiler just about does that anyway...especially combined with this

anyway, I guess, upon reflection, you really do need an accurate interpretation of the first half for the second to become exclusive.

I really thought early on that hercrabbiness and Boogeyman were about to get it...

[tessspoon]

The shield? You get it after the tile puzzle, and you use it on the next to last barrier to get to the beast.

[Delling]

AIO! YES! THAT'S IT! HUI! HUI! EIA! EIA!EDIT: uhm... you guys don't mind my Latin exclamations... I hope


I was just about to put up that there are two answers because in double checking that one, I found that you also get the coins after the tile room which (in the same way that I didn't count the Beast as an obstacle, I couldn't count Samhain) get you past Charon who is the next to last in the Underworld too...

[tessspoon]

Woot! Although Boogeyman and hercrabbiness did most of the work on that one.

Saved from one danger
Soon given to another
Check for me in more than one
In different homes I am, under the sun

[Boogeyman]

I was just about to put up that there are two answers because in double checking that one, I found that you also get the coins after the tile room which (in the same way that I didn't count the Beast as an obstacle, I couldn't count Samhain) get you past Charon who is the next to last in the Underworld too...

And why don't Cocteau and Samhain count as obstacles?

The reason I didn't mention the coins(I never thought of the shield by the way)is because it seems to me that Charon is the THIRD to last obstacle(with Gate second and Samhain last).

[hercrabbiness]

I was just about to put up that there are two answers because in double checking that one, I found that you also get the coins after the tile room which (in the same way that I didn't count the Beast as an obstacle, I couldn't count Samhain) get you past Charon who is the next to last in the Underworld too...

Aah, tricky. I was thinking about the shield among other possible answers, but I wasn't sure whether or not the beast counted as an obstacle.

Saved from one danger
Soon given to another
Check for me in more than one
In different homes I am, under the sun

Under the sun? Hmm...

[awesomeasapossum]

I'm trying to  figure out if check for me in more than one revolves around the games or different areas in the games...

Valanice? She's in 2 of them, and she's saved...

[Dangling]

Alexander was saved from Mordacks castle.  Then he was in danger again when he went to rescue Cassima.  He is a son and has been in multiple homes.  Like Mordacks, his parents, Cassimas, the ferry mans, death's, and if you were feeling naughty he did get kinky with black widow in her web

[Delling]

I was just about to put up that there are two answers because in double checking that one, I found that you also get the coins after the tile room which (in the same way that I didn't count the Beast as an obstacle, I couldn't count Samhain) get you past Charon who is the next to last in the Underworld too...

And why don't Cocteau and Samhain count as obstacles?

More or less, my reasoning was that their islands are largely about getting to them, so I only counted the obstacles in getting to them and counted anything they require of you as being the point of the whole island in the first place, ie- why you were there and what you were trying to do.