At 7:35, the hour hand would be closer to the 8 on a clock than the seven since the hour is more than halfway over. You see, on a traditional clock the hour hand moves constantly over an entire hour. But the next available time to open the door is then-” There is simply no telling if the hands broke off over time without further inspection. “And there may have been hands at one point. “So, the door can only be opened when the hands would overlap. Well, at certain times, those two hands overlap, giving the appearance that they collide.”Īt the word ‘collide’, the truth must have dawned on the Captain as she closed her eyes and nodded as if she should have known the answer all along. On a regular clock, there are two hands, right? An hour hand and a minute hand. It’s a clock, and those symbols surrounding the other circles. This wheel here on the door isn’t just a random jumble of glyphs. The professor, on the other hand, smiled. The captain shushed him and gazed at him quizzically. As in on a clock!” he said aloud, the excitement making him a bit louder than he expected. It really couldn’t be getting this dark and spooky out here so fast. An eerie mist was beginning to form on the ground, and it seemed as if the stuff was about to course its way up their bodies and choke them. Scrap found it especially difficult to mull over the solution to his puzzle with the ever encroaching darkness. How was he supposed to figure out some archaic puzzle? Something about collision and a symbol wheel. Scrap stared at the professor as if the Lenny had gone quite mad. The Puzzling Voyage to Geraptiku: Part Three

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