If memory serves in the tent in the market place when you frirst leave Irenicus's dungeon there is a djinn that asks a riddle to do with a prince and a princess.

What was the riddle and can you explain the answer?

Also any other riddles in the series that come to mind.

I can't remember the riddle itself by heart, but the answer is the prince is 30 years old, the princess 40.

There are plenty of other riddles in the game, especially in Spellhold, but the most memorable for me is the one for the bridge during the Unseeing Eye quest.
The one about how the present is the most important time because it's the only one we live in. Pretty deep for a video game, I thought.

HOLY SHIT...

Thank you though.

One month to find the answer to that? How bad at algebra can you be?

I remember it took me a minute or so to write the equations out and solve them the first time, but that's all. It's really easy provided you have proper methodology and don't panic before and equation.

Actually there are 2 riddles given:

1. The Prince/Princess one
2. Another if you fail the prince/princess one.

As stated above, the answer for the other is prince 30 princess 40

If you miss it then the second riddle's answer is: Nothing.

For this and other such things there's a few walk throughs you can google up. Dan Simpson's walkthrough so far is the most detailed with commentary etc but it lacks maps.

The math's not too bad. Here's how to do it:

I used the table and equations like this:


------present-------past--------future
princess***x*****(x+y)/2******2z
prince *****y*****z************x

Then solve for their age difference, since their age difference will always be the same. You get 3 equations and 4 variables.

d = x- y
d = (x+y)/2 - z
d = 2z - x

You can't solve it b/c you have an excess of 1 variable. But then you also have possible solutions to fill in x and y. So plug in the possibilities for x and y and see if the equations all match up.

For princess age x = 40 and prince's age y = 30, you get

d = 40 - 30 = 10

d = (40+30)/2 - z
35-z = 10
z = 25

and then test d = 10, z = 25 with your assumed x = 40 in the final equation; d = 2z - x

10 = 2*25 - 40
10 = 10

CORRECT!