Await instructions on the first floor to be SUMMONED by the corresponding floors of the buttons that are pressed.
When SUMMONED to go up by the Up Button being pressed, please PROCEED to go up to the corresponding floor.
STOP and OPEN the door when reaching the Destination of the button that was pressed.
After 20 seconds of inactivity, CLOSE the door.
Close the Door after the Destination Button is pressed, then Close the Door before proceeding to
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
These statements for the most part accurately describe the current situation, but they ARE NOT:
A set of INSTRUCTIONS to an ignorant elevator that needs to be programmed to operate as desired.
FOR EXAMPLE:
1. When the UP BUTTON is lit on any floor above where the car is positioned, proceed immediately to that floor, not stopping at any intervening floor.
Check out Sunflower828’s post. It’s closer to a set of INSTRUCTIONS.
I looked at Sunflower828’s post and compared it to mine’s. I made updates to the elevator riddle. Thank You!
Thanks, Ladybug. Let’s see what you’ve got.
When the UP BUTTON is pressed on the 2nd floor of a 10th-floor building but the DOWN BUTTON is lit up on the 4th floor, which is picks up someone on the 2nd floor first and takes them to the up to the desired 4th floor, then continues to pick up the person pressing the DOWN BUTTON that wants go to the 10th floor.
—These still sound like DESCRIPTIONS of what happens by example. They’re not INSTRUCTIONS. Without changing them, let me first revise them so that they read like INSTRUCTIONS.
—This is flawed for several reasons.
—The UP BUTTON doesn’t indicate what floor a passenger wants to go to, just UP.
—You haven’t specified where the elevator is when it gets the two button calls. If it’s ABOVE the 4th floor, it might respond differently. Can you write the instructions it would correctly follow regardless of where it starts?
—Corrections might include instructions like these:
—When the UP BUTTON is pressed on any floor, PROCEED to that floor and open your doors.
—DO NOT CHANGE DIRECTIONS unless instructed.
—When a FLOOR BUTTON is pressed, PROCEED to that floor if you can do so without changing directions and OPEN YOUR DOORS.
Is that helpful?
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I have made some improvements on the Elevator Riddle.
I’m afraid that, no matter how much your change your language, Ladybug, your sentences are still descriptions of how something occurs instead of instructions to an elevator.
Here’s one of your descriptions:
—Then while dropping the person off on the 3rd floor, it gets a request on the 5th floor to go UP to the 7th floor. Takes the person UP to the 7th floor, then STOPS and Waits on the 7th floor for the next request to come on either the UP or DOWN BUTTON.
This is how an instruction to the elevator might read for the same situation:
—When an Up Button is pressed, PROCEED to the corresponding floor and OPEN the door.
—When a Number Button is pressed, PROCEED to the requested floor and OPEN the door.
—After 20 seconds of inactivity, CLOSE the door.
There can’t be language specific to every floor and situation, Ladybug. Instructions are the general rules that can be followed in any situation.
I’ll be happy to return with a more general review of your Argument, your Rhetoric, your Mechanics, or your Scholarship at your request, Ladybug. You didn’t instruct me what you might prefer, so I went with my first instinct.
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I had look at MillyCain’s and Puffers riddles. I did some changes to my riddle. Can you give me feedback on if this one is better then the other one I had. Thank You!
Await instructions on the first floor to be SUMMONED by the corresponding floors of the buttons that are pressed.
When SUMMONED to go up by the Up Button being pressed, please PROCEED to go up to the corresponding floor.
STOP and OPEN the door when reaching the Destination of the button that was pressed.
After 20 seconds of inactivity, CLOSE the door.
Close the Door after the Destination Button is pressed, then Close the Door before proceeding to
Yes. These are INSTRUCTIONS. LadyBug.
Thank you so much for your patience throughout this experiment in a new assignment. I understand it’s been not completely clear.
If you also want specific feedback on your individual instructions, I’ll be happy to respond to those also.
For example:
—There’s no way to know what floor the elevator will be on when it tries to comply with your instructions, so an elevator might ignore this instruction completely if it didn’t happen to be on the first floor. Will it respond differently to this instruction if it’s on the 6th floor?
—If so, you would need a different instruction for that situation.
—If not, you don’t need to mention the first floor at all.
—Ask yourself, also, what will an elevator automatically do if it doesn’t have ANY instructions to follow? It will wait.
—So . . . do you ever have to tell the elevator to wait?
Once we remove all the unnecessary instructions for this VERY PARTICULAR AUDIENCE of the one elevator in the building, what’s left?
—PROCEED to any floor that corresponds to a lighted SUMMONS BUTTON.
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