A strange hotel
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Entering the lobby, I requested a room. The clerk handed me my key and I took the elevator to my floor. To my surprise there was a sign on the door of my room telling me I should try a different room instead.
I headed to my new room on the floor above. But I simply couldn't find the door. I looked to the room next to where it should be, but a burly looking security guard said I wasn't allowed in there.
So I took the elevator a floor higher where the restaurant was located. No sooner had I arrived when one of the waitstaff clumsily spilled a drink over me!
I stormed back to the lobby and made my concerns known. The response from the front desk clerk was that there was only really one room in this hotel which was OK.
Which room number should I try?
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Entering the lobby, I requested a room. The clerk handed me my key and I took the elevator to my floor. To my surprise there was a sign on the door of my room telling me I should try a different room instead.
I headed to my new room on the floor above. But I simply couldn't find the door. I looked to the room next to where it should be, but a burly looking security guard said I wasn't allowed in there.
So I took the elevator a floor higher where the restaurant was located. No sooner had I arrived when one of the waitstaff clumsily spilled a drink over me!
I stormed back to the lobby and made my concerns known. The response from the front desk clerk was that there was only really one room in this hotel which was OK.
Which room number should I try?
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Did the sign say to try any different room or did it say to try a specific room?
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– CStafford-14
5 hours ago
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Does this hotel have anything to do with a rot13(zrgebvqinavn)
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– Bewilderer
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I hope you aren't in Hotel California :). Anyway, thanks for the puzzle, and welcome to Puzzling.SE! I removed the "riddle" tag and replaced it with "story" since this isn't quite a "riddle".
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Entering the lobby, I requested a room. The clerk handed me my key and I took the elevator to my floor. To my surprise there was a sign on the door of my room telling me I should try a different room instead.
I headed to my new room on the floor above. But I simply couldn't find the door. I looked to the room next to where it should be, but a burly looking security guard said I wasn't allowed in there.
So I took the elevator a floor higher where the restaurant was located. No sooner had I arrived when one of the waitstaff clumsily spilled a drink over me!
I stormed back to the lobby and made my concerns known. The response from the front desk clerk was that there was only really one room in this hotel which was OK.
Which room number should I try?
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Entering the lobby, I requested a room. The clerk handed me my key and I took the elevator to my floor. To my surprise there was a sign on the door of my room telling me I should try a different room instead.
I headed to my new room on the floor above. But I simply couldn't find the door. I looked to the room next to where it should be, but a burly looking security guard said I wasn't allowed in there.
So I took the elevator a floor higher where the restaurant was located. No sooner had I arrived when one of the waitstaff clumsily spilled a drink over me!
I stormed back to the lobby and made my concerns known. The response from the front desk clerk was that there was only really one room in this hotel which was OK.
Which room number should I try?
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Did the sign say to try any different room or did it say to try a specific room?
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– CStafford-14
5 hours ago
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Does this hotel have anything to do with a rot13(zrgebvqinavn)
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I hope you aren't in Hotel California :). Anyway, thanks for the puzzle, and welcome to Puzzling.SE! I removed the "riddle" tag and replaced it with "story" since this isn't quite a "riddle".
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Did the sign say to try any different room or did it say to try a specific room?
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– CStafford-14
5 hours ago
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Does this hotel have anything to do with a rot13(zrgebvqinavn)
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– Bewilderer
5 hours ago
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I hope you aren't in Hotel California :). Anyway, thanks for the puzzle, and welcome to Puzzling.SE! I removed the "riddle" tag and replaced it with "story" since this isn't quite a "riddle".
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Did the sign say to try any different room or did it say to try a specific room?
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– CStafford-14
5 hours ago
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Did the sign say to try any different room or did it say to try a specific room?
$endgroup$
– CStafford-14
5 hours ago
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Does this hotel have anything to do with a rot13(zrgebvqinavn)
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– Bewilderer
5 hours ago
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Does this hotel have anything to do with a rot13(zrgebvqinavn)
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– Bewilderer
5 hours ago
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I hope you aren't in Hotel California :). Anyway, thanks for the puzzle, and welcome to Puzzling.SE! I removed the "riddle" tag and replaced it with "story" since this isn't quite a "riddle".
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– Brandon_J
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Try the toilet one floor below the room you first tried.
You first went to the third floor (possible 307) where you were redirected to the fourth floor, there you got to 404 which was not found, but next to is 403 which is forbidden.
You really want to go to room number
200
which is OK.
This makes sense because
All the rooms correspond to HTTP response codes.
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Note that the restaurant was in room 500, and the spill was because there was an rot13(vagreany freire reebe)!
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4 hours ago
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You have no other option but to take the room for which you were handed the key to upon check-in,as that it is the only room in the hotel (and the only room which your key will open!)
Secondly,why would you believe the sign advising to try an alternate room was intended for you?
(And why would you even care? You have a hotel room, and a key that opens it. What kind of "sheep" are you to allow yourself to be herded through this strange hotel on someone elses whim?)
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Try the toilet one floor below the room you first tried.
You first went to the third floor (possible 307) where you were redirected to the fourth floor, there you got to 404 which was not found, but next to is 403 which is forbidden.
You really want to go to room number
200
which is OK.
This makes sense because
All the rooms correspond to HTTP response codes.
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Note that the restaurant was in room 500, and the spill was because there was an rot13(vagreany freire reebe)!
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Try the toilet one floor below the room you first tried.
You first went to the third floor (possible 307) where you were redirected to the fourth floor, there you got to 404 which was not found, but next to is 403 which is forbidden.
You really want to go to room number
200
which is OK.
This makes sense because
All the rooms correspond to HTTP response codes.
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Note that the restaurant was in room 500, and the spill was because there was an rot13(vagreany freire reebe)!
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Try the toilet one floor below the room you first tried.
You first went to the third floor (possible 307) where you were redirected to the fourth floor, there you got to 404 which was not found, but next to is 403 which is forbidden.
You really want to go to room number
200
which is OK.
This makes sense because
All the rooms correspond to HTTP response codes.
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Try the toilet one floor below the room you first tried.
You first went to the third floor (possible 307) where you were redirected to the fourth floor, there you got to 404 which was not found, but next to is 403 which is forbidden.
You really want to go to room number
200
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All the rooms correspond to HTTP response codes.
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Note that the restaurant was in room 500, and the spill was because there was an rot13(vagreany freire reebe)!
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Note that the restaurant was in room 500, and the spill was because there was an rot13(vagreany freire reebe)!
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Note that the restaurant was in room 500, and the spill was because there was an rot13(vagreany freire reebe)!
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You have no other option but to take the room for which you were handed the key to upon check-in,as that it is the only room in the hotel (and the only room which your key will open!)
Secondly,why would you believe the sign advising to try an alternate room was intended for you?
(And why would you even care? You have a hotel room, and a key that opens it. What kind of "sheep" are you to allow yourself to be herded through this strange hotel on someone elses whim?)
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You have no other option but to take the room for which you were handed the key to upon check-in,as that it is the only room in the hotel (and the only room which your key will open!)
Secondly,why would you believe the sign advising to try an alternate room was intended for you?
(And why would you even care? You have a hotel room, and a key that opens it. What kind of "sheep" are you to allow yourself to be herded through this strange hotel on someone elses whim?)
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You have no other option but to take the room for which you were handed the key to upon check-in,as that it is the only room in the hotel (and the only room which your key will open!)
Secondly,why would you believe the sign advising to try an alternate room was intended for you?
(And why would you even care? You have a hotel room, and a key that opens it. What kind of "sheep" are you to allow yourself to be herded through this strange hotel on someone elses whim?)
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Secondly,why would you believe the sign advising to try an alternate room was intended for you?
(And why would you even care? You have a hotel room, and a key that opens it. What kind of "sheep" are you to allow yourself to be herded through this strange hotel on someone elses whim?)
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Does this hotel have anything to do with a rot13(zrgebvqinavn)
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