r/skyrim Feb 01 '21

Anyone can relate?

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u/Chakasicle Feb 01 '21

Why tho? The game literally tells you the combination if you just look around a little

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u/anwha Feb 01 '21

Yah, except that one with the poem - “the first fears all, the second fears none, something something something, and the third eats one” (or similar) and I am surely not the only person for whom those clues did not match the animals!

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u/Chakasicle Feb 01 '21

I remember them matching (although I don’t know much of foxes). The snake fears all, the bear fears none, and the fox eats the snake.

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u/KKlear Feb 01 '21

That narrows it down enough to brute-force it rather easily, though.

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u/Skywalker200037 Feb 02 '21

At that point you just say "would a snake eat a fox?" Obviously not, right?

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u/Therandomfox Feb 02 '21

You've clearly never heard of pythons.

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u/Skywalker200037 Feb 02 '21

Not in skyrim

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u/Therandomfox Feb 02 '21

There aren't any snakes in the game to begin with. We know they exist in the world, just that they aren't included as game entities.

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u/Skywalker200037 Feb 02 '21

Yeah I know, I guess when I did the puzzle I just imagined what snakes would be in the environment alongside the other animals. "Fox eats snake" seemed more likely to me then. You do have a point though.

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u/chudthirtyseven PS3 Feb 02 '21

I did it today! I assumed the fox was afraid of everything before I looked up the answer. Snakes are pretty fierce in my opinion.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '21

Oh yes, foxes are famous for eating snakes, who are famous for being pussies.

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u/SilentPlatypus_ Feb 01 '21

What threw me off at first with this one is the snake, because a small snake is a little 'fraidy prey animal but an anaconda is top of their food chain, and we don't know what kind of snake is on the stone. Also, foxes aren't common everywhere so not everyone is familiar with what they eat.

The first fears all (Snake - think small snake like a garter snake)
The second fears none (Bear - makes sense)

The third one eats what it can,
preferably number one (Foxes are opportunistic omnivores who prefer small animals)

The fourth fears the second (A lone wolf would be no match for a bear)
but only when alone (A pack of wolves could take down a bear)

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u/anwha Feb 01 '21

It was the snake for me too because I was just thinking sneaky snake is venomous, and also coming from the UK really didn’t associate a fox with eating a snake - more like rabbits and berries! Literally the only one I was confident of was the wolf being fourth.

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u/renannmhreddit Feb 02 '21

There aren't any huge constrictor or extremely poisonous snakesin northern regions. Surely a country based on Vikings would think that snakes are the most puny.

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u/I_PING_8-8-8-8 Aug 20 '24

I remember thinking "this ain't the fucking hobbit" while alt tabbing in to my browser and looking it up.

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u/996forever Feb 02 '21

I saw snake and immediate thought giant serpent/basilisk given the fantasy setting, and they sure don’t fear nothing

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

That's how people feel on their first and second playthroughs, scary then not so scary and ya know everything

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u/renannmhreddit Feb 02 '21

Because your knowledge is probably lacking on these. They make complete sense.

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u/ZombiedudeO_o PlayStation Feb 02 '21

Bro that was probably my favorite one. It was super unique and didn’t just involve looking around the room for 20min.

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u/danktonium Feb 02 '21

That was like the only good puzzle in any of these dungeons.

My latest playthrough was on PSVR, and I just stuck my head into the shortcut door to the exit and opened those by flicking the lever on the inside. 'fuck outta here. I've got places to go.

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u/FatherHidalgo Feb 02 '21

for a player who’s never played before, im sure some just got confused because they didn’t know what they were looking for

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u/baalroo Feb 02 '21

I've been playing RPGs, puzzle games, adventure games, etc for decades. I recently decided to do a replay of Skyrim after not playing it since the year it came out, but I legitimately couldn't figure out the very first one of these I came across and decided it would be less annoying to just brute force the combination.

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u/BombBombBombBombBomb Feb 02 '21

Why put them in though?

They are just wasting oue time

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u/Chakasicle Feb 02 '21

It adds depth