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I thought of an idea for a puzzle in my D&D campaign. Wanted to ask you all to see if you could solve it and if you can't, if the solution makes sense.
There are three statues of different heights with faces on them. They all face toward you and are in front of a contraption with 3 metal plates on top. They have square bases of equal size, and each of the metal plates has a square depression in it where the statue could be placed inside. On the bottom of the contraption, there is a poem:
"The youngest child was left behind
The middle child walked away
The eldest child watched from afar
Making sure his brothers were okay"
Video game logic: I have to use all 3 because video games require me to push all crates onto panels. Tallest goes on the left facing to the right, shortest goes into the middle facing right, medium goes on the right facing right.
Fantasy adventure logic: The poem is a trick about the order because it describes both the eldest/tallest and the youngest/shortest not going with the middle child. Thus the middle child is the only one used, and there is some other context clue in the room to indicate which panel the middle child is stood on and which way he faces.
(This wouldn't terribly be secure if it were actually protecting anything secure...)