The blood fades away for now. A patchwork of farms, some abandoned by mortals, others tended by minor gods (or their servants).
Puzzle ID #: 16
Discoverer: Yerkan of Elish
Resets: 0
Time: 4 days
You enter a nice orchard. There you meet Ida the Old, keeper of the apples of youth, who can never benefit of her own gift.
She has two of the apples of youth, which are 99% nectar. She places them on a golden balance scale. There are a thousand walnuts on the other pan.
Then she lets a few drops of the precious nectar fall onto your tongue. The apples are now 98% nectar. Ida scoops all the walnuts off the scale with her wrinkled hands and passes you ten times as many, so you now have 10,000 walnuts.
“I have given you two gifts already. One more I will give, a diamond egg, if you humor me. If you do not succeed, I will rescind all my gifts.”
She places the same two apples on the scale pan again.
How many walnuts will you place on the pan?