Wikipedia:Wikifun/Round 9/Answers/Question 9

A honeymoon?? I guess the rice means a wedding, and the journey that takes him back to his start is a vacation. So its a honeymoon!!--Zxcvbnm 02:59, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Here, I'll give a hint. What word does the phrase "throw rice" sound like? -- AllyUnion (talk) 05:51, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Answer
Maybe you mean "thorax"?? The big monarch butterfly migration?? Throw me a bone here!--Zxcvbnm 16:43, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * '''OR do you mean "to race" that would make sense also since the race in an oval track returns you to your starting position. And it could be the pace car or just a race car.--Zxcvbnm 16:44, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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 * Keep thinking. Here's another hint: This question is remotely related to another question in this round involving another Wiki game... -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:43, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Okay, it is obvious that "throw rice" is going to take forever to solve, and that no one will be able to correctly guess word that I want people to guess. "Throw rice" is to imply "thrice." -- AllyUnion (talk) 05:06, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I guess the piece means a chess piece--Zxcvbnm 28 June 2005 17:31 (UTC)
 * Figure out which one. --AllyUnion (talk) 29 June 2005 11:03 (UTC)

I'm guessing the piece is a knight, see Knight's Tour. What "throw rice"/"thrice" refers to I don't know. the wub  "?/!"  4 July 2005 12:22 (UTC)

A hint: Before one could throw rice --AllyUnion (talk) 6 July 2005 02:15 (UTC)

The white knight can move from b1 to c3 and return to its starting position the next turn. Found by searching for chess on wiki and linking to algebraic chess notation. As one user described above, the Knight's Tour is a term enclosing any of a set of moves enabling the knight to touch every space on the board. Many of these moves return the knight to its original position. Reediewes 16:57, July 15, 2005 (UTC)


 * Correct. --AllyUnion (talk) 07:28, 18 July 2005 (UTC)


 * No fair, i thought up the chess piece idea, i should get at least half a point o_0--Zxcvbnm 00:58, 28 July 2005 (UTC)


 * You didn't elaborate why. --AllyUnion (talk) 05:31, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Another answer
OK, so I know this isn't what you were thinking of, but you might be interested all the same. A Knight's Tour is a mathematical problem on a chessboard. I remembered another problem I learnt at school, where one grain of rice was put on the first square of a chessboard, two grains on the second, four grains on the third and so on, doubling until the 64th square. The aim was to work out the total amount of rice on the board (and it is startling how quick it rises). However I couldn't find reference to this anywhere on Wikipedia, and once you explained that "throw rice" actually meant "thrice", I figured I was wrong. Now though I found Shahnama theory, which is what I was thinking of. the wub  "?/!"  08:27, 29 July 2005 (UTC)