Tajniak & Jawniak – Tweedledum & Tweedledee and The Lying Guard Logic Puzzle
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:Trial_of_Wisdom
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Tajniak
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Jawniak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweedledum_and_Tweedledee
https://people.cs.umass.edu/~pthomas/LogicPuzzles.html
Attempting to gain an audience with the Auroacle, your wizard must face the Trial of Wisdom. Tajniak and Jawniak are brothers. One of them will always tell the truth and the other always lies. One of them also has poisoned claws.
Tajniak: “Look, I’m going to tell it to you straight, my brother is the one who cannot be honest.”
Jawniak: “That’s not true. He’s the liar. I would never deceive you.”
Tajniak: “I’ll tell you this much, if you asked him, he’d tell you that I’m the one with poisoned claws.”
MONSTROLOGY TOME DESCRIPTIONS
Tajniak’s signature style caused great torment when he was in school. Now that style is considered hipster.
His brother Tajniak is said to be dumb. But Jawniak is much, much dumber.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee are characters in an English nursery rhyme and in Lewis Carroll’s 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom. The nursery rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19800. The names have since become synonymous in western popular culture slang for any two people whose appearances and actions are identical.
The characters are perhaps best known from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There (1871). Carroll, having introduced two fat little men named Tweedledee and Tweedledum, quotes the nursery rhyme, which the two brothers then go on to enact. They agree to have a battle, but never have one. When they see a monstrous black crow swooping down, they take to their heels. The Tweedle brothers never contradict each other, even when one of them, according to the rhyme, “agrees to have a battle”. Rather, they complement each other’s words, which led John Tenniel to portray them as twins in his illustrations for the book.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
As black as a tar-barrel;
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel.
The Lying Guard Logic Puzzle
There are two guards and two doors. One door leads to freedom, and the other to death. One guard always lies, the other always tells the truth. They know which they are. They know where the two doors go. You do not know which guard is which or which door is which. You may ask one yes or no question. What do you ask to determine which door leads to freedom?
This logic puzzle was nicely done in Labyrinth (1986).
The current list of all the (known) Polaris references can be found here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages
Tajniak and Jawniak images are from Wizard101, and are copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment
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Tenniel’s illustration, from Through the Looking-Glass is borrowed from Wikipedia. It is in the public domain.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee image is copyright Disney
Labyrinth image is copyright Henson and Associates / Lucasfilm / Tri-Star Pictures
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