Escape Room Top 20% Proud Seo Eunkwang Challenges 'Turtle Soup' with Whimsical Reasoning

Seo Eunkwang, who prides himself on being in the top 20% of escape room players, challenged the reasoning game 'Turtle Soup'. Seo Eunkwang revealed his exceptional logical skills, introducing himself as a "science student" and noting that his math grades were always perfect during middle school. For this content, he prepared a detective concept to increase immersion as a mystery investigation team.

"Imagination equivalent to 10 movies"... Diverging reasoning and a twist answer

The reasoning game 'Turtle Soup' is a method where the questioner uncovers the full story of a situation presented by the host by receiving answers of 'Yes', 'No', or 'Irrelevant'. Upon encountering the first problem, the story of 'a man who committed suicide after eating turtle soup at a restaurant', Seo Eunkwang continued to ask questions to reconstruct the situation. He immersed himself in reasoning by imagining scenarios such as a high-end France restaurant or situations where the food was unfamiliar. Ultimately, he successfully completed the first step by uncovering the cruel truth that the food eaten during a past shipwreck situation was not actually turtle soup.

In the subsequent problems, Seo Eunkwang's whimsical imagination shone. In the story of a man found with only a puddle of water left in a room, he showed a unique approach by mentioning 'human physiological phenomena'. However, the answer was the fact that 'he stood on ice and hanged himself', and Seo Eunkwang showed extraordinary concentration by guessing the correct answer after fourteen questions without any hints.

The gap between tools and physical conditions, diverging logic

The difficulty of reasoning increased in the story of a man using an elevator. Regarding the behavior of a man who only takes the elevator directly up to his house on rainy days, Seo Eunkwang asked questions by assuming knee pain, physical defects, or situations where he could not use tools. He struggled to find logical grounds, stating, "Humans use tools, so imagination is only possible if the premise is that one cannot use tools." However, he was also flustered by the unexpected developments during the process of guessing the correct answers.

The biggest twist appeared in the problem dealing with a situation where a bartender points a gun. Seo Eunkwang increased the tension by assuming situations related to organization missions or crimes. However, the answer was that 'the customer was hiccuping, and the bartender pretended to point a gun to make it stop'. After confirming the answer, Seo Eunkwang expressed both emptiness and amusement at the unexpected, piercing answer, saying, "I wrote ten movies just with my imagination."

"The harder it gets, the stronger I become"... Unstoppable reasoning instinct

As his range of imagination expanded due to the consecutive problems, Seo Eunkwang strengthened his resolve, saying, "I will start when the difficulty is low and follow a 'weak-strong-medium-strong-weak' flow, becoming stronger as it gets harder." Moving beyond simple quizzes, he showed faithfulness to the rules of the game by constantly asking questions to grasp the context of the given situations. Starting with the story of a man found in the middle of a desert, Seo Eunkwang's reasoning challenge is set to continue.

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