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Originally Posted by Synnen
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Actually, that's the kind that would stump me. All of these puzzles thus far have been the variety whereby there isn't any type of word-play type thing like that involved, as in, you can just take what it says at face value. (Though the statements can still be misleading.) So I would have taken island to be an island. But then, that was the kind where you don't have to ask a bunch of questions - you just try to guess it. Got any more up your sleeve? |
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How about a change of pace? This isn't a "yes", "no" puzzle - just a logic puzzle. A train goes between Chicago and New York. The brakeman, the fireman and the engineer are named Smith, Jones and Brown. (The names are not necessarily in order). There are also three passengers named Mr. Smith, Mr. Jones and Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown lives in New York. The brakeman lives halfway between New York and Chicago. Mr. Jones earns exactly $20,000 per year. Smith beat the fireman at their last game of golf. The passenger who lives in Chicago has the same name as the brakeman. The brakeman's next door neighbor is a passenger on this train and earns exactly three times as much as the brakeman. What is the name of the engineer? |
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OK, since J-Lo is not wanting to commit at this very second, I'll throw some in. The following came from a list of "tricky" ones, except that I answered most of them correctly the first time, within about 30 seconds. So these are not yes and no ones... assuming anyone is alive out there, they shouldn't take long. Adults are holding children, waiting their turn. The children are handed (one at a time, usually) to a man, who holds them while a woman shoots them. If the child is crying, the man tries to stop the crying before the child is shot. A cabin, locked from the inside, is perched on the side of a mountain. It is forced open, and thirty people are found dead inside. They had plenty of food and water. A man marries twenty women in his village but isn't charged with polygamy. A woman came home with a bag of groceries, got the mail, and walked into the house. On the way to the kitchen, she went through the living room and looked at her husband, who had blown his brains out. She continued to the kitchen, put away the groceries, and made dinner A man is found dead in the arctic with a pack on his back. A train pulls into a station, but none of the waiting passengers move. And lastly: A young woman is whisked away to a far off land, where she kills the first person she meets. Then she teams up with three others to kill again. |
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Since those won't last long, I'll post a harder one. This one has two alternatives - one of them is easy and fairly obvious and I guessed it quickly too. (I also head it years ago.) So we're going to use the alternative answer because this'll require more figuring out.
A rope breaks. A bell rings. A man dies. |
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1. The children are getting their vaccination.. 2. They died of suffocation while they were sleeping? 3. This is an African village or an Arabic/Islamic country? 4. " who had blown his brains out" that I do not understand the slang in here :( 5. The man got tired, fell down and froze to death? 6. The train is full... or the train has a notice saying it's under repair... 7. An extremist who hates men? 8. The man is being executed (guillotine)? |
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