HOW DO YOU OPEN THE DOOR? A pick-a-path adventure!

A puzzle for budding adventurers - can you pick an ancient lock?

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[LeeCausseaux]

When playing AD&D back in the 1980's, we took chickens with us. Every time we needed to enter a suspicious place, we ran the chickens in first.
Many a DM was constantly annoyed by us.

[ZeroIDK]

Only Lloyd the Beige himself could hold my full, undivided attentiom for over half an hour using only a wooden door, some string and a stick.

[hedgeearthridge]

Suddenly, I have gained an immense appreciation and thankfulness for modern door latches/locks....

[heronimousbrapson]

Easy. When someone comes who can open the door, you follow them in backwards before the door closes. They'll think you're leaving, so you won't arouse suspicion. (Thank you, Abbot and Costello).

[KevlarIlluminati]

"I'm sorry, Time Machine!" is my new method of informing my players they have failed a challenge.

[huxleypig]

In the field of security this type of thing is called "security through obscurity". So the fact that there is a secret to opening the lock, and that nobody knows the secret, makes it incredibly secure. The problem with security through obscurity is that as soon as the secret is out and everybody knows the trick, it totally destroys the security of the lock. BUT, so long as the secret is contained to just one or two people then it is better than pretty much anything else.

[TuberGreg]

You got me on the "feeding in the slack" bit.

[audiobrew]

This has been one of the most unexpectedly interesting videos I have seen.

[_Mentat]

My antennae alert for guards, I advance to the door. I push an eyestalk through the hole to examine the situation. I take a step back, I walk three steps [untranslatable], forward three steps then [untranslatable] three steps. I am on the other side of the door. The people inside all look at me and fall catatonic. I make a telepathic report to Great Cthulhu.

[huxleypig]

Believe it or not, lollipop sticks have been used to self-impression locks in the past. The real beauty of this technique is that literally anybody can do it and it works on some very high security locks! Opens them in seconds flat.

[aydenvis]

Pausing at 5:20 to comment my idea.









Push the end of the string through the hole and wait, you and Derrick each take a four hour shift watching the door. When someone comes round to fix the lock, you follow them inside.

[archive]

One of the most counter productive expectations developed in the modern day is expecting the bolt to come from the door into the wall. Here we see that it is in the wall coming to the door.

[Noinoi_]

1. back to the future
2. google this type of lock
3. prepare the key
4. open the door

Alternatively, let's assume your google-fu is weak or it's not there:
1. back to the future
2. grab a dentist mirror (we know we can have tools on us, the other guy has modern lockpicks)
3. peek through the lock
4. come up with a way to open it- I'm pretty sure there's a dramatically easier way, for example an L-shaped pipe that you just push a wire through might work

[altEFG]

That was really well structured and entertaining.

[jackkenway]

I’m proud to say I only had to use the time machine once... sadly it was the point at which a length of key must be chosen, so I would’ve spent a rather long time trying to correct myself

[zachbowman]

After 6 attempts, I managed to batter down the door with a Derek on the sixth try. Finding a sturdy enough Derek was certainly the tricky part. Now, to find a sturdy spade...

[alihunter]

Mr.Puzzle and Chris Ramsay are good channels for inspiration when it comes to buying tricky thing-a-ma-gigs to make your local rogue work for their XP :)

[lesliefranklin]

Three words: Hand sized auger. You've already supplied a pilot hole.

[cavs]

i was about to say i knock on the door and then hide, repeat until someone comes out, then perform as if i was random guy near, and then point at another guy, implying that the other guy was the annoying guy knocking non-stop, chase ensues and i go in

[MetalWingedWolf]

I miss your book of questions. It’s something I would quite literally enjoy making a day of to converse with friends about.