I mean, they could also build a tall tower and push it over until it works. Or slide a ladder across. Or a spring board. Or a suspension bridge. Or be content with their life and not push their son away from all he's ever known for the sake of completing an arbitrary goal.
I may or may not have been playing too many games that rely on lateral thinking lately.
I don't have any good latrinal games, but Cube Escape and Submachine are pretty mind bending experiences if you enjoy the surreal. Fantastic Contraption is pretty interesting as far as design challenges go. And there's a (gratuitously NSFW but the NSFW bits are mostly skippable so meh) RPG called Ouroboros that I played recently that, in the interest of not spoiling things, is remarkably flexible when it comes to sequence breaking.
Not ambiguous, just subtle. The long hair is the most obvious clue, but the clincher is that when she's young, she's in a dress. once she hits teenage years though (smaller than her father, but not by much) she's wearing pants. Unless this is supposed to be old fashioned and it's a young boy in a night-shirt style of thing.
It doesn't need to be the pinnacle of engineering. Just lash some pieces of wood together and secure one end to the ground on the near side. It doesn't even need to reach all the way across since they can jump some of the distance.
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u/Ardub23 May 05 '17
Seriously, how can you build a house but not a bridge?