Tomorrow is a big event at my university. I’d like to make a fun thing where the people of the Board Game society I am in can try to find me for a riddle, kind of a Where is Waldo in a place where there is a crap tone of people to find the NPC that’ll give them a Riddle (Maybe something to win? No idea how I could do that detail)
-I cannot allow you before Théoden-King so armed, Gandalf Greyhame. By order of Gríma Wormtongue. Your staff.
-Hmm? Oh. You would not part an old man from his walking stick?
-It is not by my choosing. Your staff I judge to be five feet, yet no object greater than four feet in length may be brought before the King.
-Then I must speak with the town carpenter.
Later that day, Gandalf brings his staff to the meeting with Théoden. He has not broken any rules, and the staff is unaltered. How did he manage it?
put it diagonally into a 3.6x3.6 case?
Winner winner chicken dinner! The ‘official’ answer is 4x3, but who says wizards prefer Pythagorean triples to squares?
Pythagondalf
He got it measured and the other guy’s judgement was simply wrong
Guys will tell you this is five feet
The Carpenter made the door bigger?
He’s got massive wooden feet now
Good answer, tho not the one I had in mind. Shame that the lengthy discussion about the Rohirrim’s rejection of the metric system never made it into the movies.