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    #21

    Aug 19, 2010, 10:51 AM
    I'm trying my best not to easily Google the answer. :D
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    #22

    Aug 19, 2010, 03:46 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Unknown008 View Post
    Did the tent belong to the dead man?
    He didn't personally own it, no.
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    Aug 19, 2010, 03:53 PM
    Did the man not like what he saw in the paper?
    Difficult to answer when you put the "not" in. Re-worded: Did the man dislike what he saw in the paper? No.

    Did the papers have to do with his suicide?
    In some fashion, yes.

    Was the man camping alone?
    Assumption. It's never been established what he was doing.

    Did anybody witness it?
    Irrelevant.

    Were the scrapbooks his?
    Yes.

    Did the wooden disks have anything to do with anything?
    Yes.

    Did he do something bad in his life?
    Most of us have. :p

    No.

    Did someone want him dead?
    We don't know.

    Was he a convict?
    No.

    Was he ever in jail?
    Irrelevant.

    Did he have family?
    Irrelevant.

    Did any of his friends or family die?
    Irrelevant but no.
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    #24

    Aug 19, 2010, 03:59 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    I don`t know this one (puzzle) but I`m willing to bet they have a lot to do with it. We have to figure out what they actually are.
    Right you are.

    I'm trying my best not to easily Google the answer.
    You know, when I was googling these kinds of puzzles, this was one I never found. One must definitely enjoy a good mystery to do these. (Actually, I know a mystery puzzle, and I know some about it, but I don't think it was ever solved so I don't know the final answer. Not very useful.)
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    #25

    Aug 19, 2010, 04:35 PM
    Knowing that in these kinds of puzzles the devil is in how one defines things. Hence the "wooden disks" are likely a minimalistic way of describing something that we know under another name.
    Are the wooden disks household objects?
    Is that fact that there are six of them have any bearing?
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    #26

    Aug 19, 2010, 07:20 PM
    Are the wooden disks household objects?
    No.

    Is that fact that there are six of them have any bearing?
    That there's specifically six, no.
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    #27

    Aug 20, 2010, 04:42 AM

    Was he camping?

    Was he at a circus?

    Was he at any public events?

    It is killing me to know what the wooden disks are because I know now they have something to do with it and I have no questions to ask about them. Hmmm...

    Were the wooden disks his?

    Was the stuff inside the scrapbook done by him?

    Do the scrapbooks and disks go together?

    Did the wooden disks have writing on them or were they some kind of tablets?

    Was everything in the tent his?

    Was the man homeless?

    Was the man well known or famous?

    Were the disks new? Older?

    Did the papers make him look like a town idiot and embarressed him?

    Did the papers say he was illiterate?
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    #28

    Aug 20, 2010, 04:45 AM

    Was he being blackmailed about something and somebody went to the papers to release something about it and made him kill himsefl?
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    Aug 20, 2010, 04:45 AM

    Or... Did the papers reveal a secret about him?
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    Aug 20, 2010, 12:42 PM
    Was he camping?
    No. :D

    Was he at a circus?
    Yes.

    Was he at any public events?
    Yes, but not while he was dead. :p

    Were the wooden disks his?
    Yes.

    Was the stuff inside the scrapbook done by him?
    Irrelevant.

    Do the scrapbooks and disks go together?
    No.

    Did the wooden disks have writing on them or were they some kind of tablets?
    No.

    Was everything in the tent his?
    <looking at original to see what was in the tent... >

    We'll say yes. (Maybe not the cot but that's irrelevant anyway.)

    Was the man homeless?
    No.

    Was the man well known or famous?
    Yes.

    Were the disks new? Older?
    That's not a yes or no. :)

    On the older side.

    Did the papers make him look like a town idiot and embarressed him?
    No.

    Did the papers say he was illiterate?
    Irrelevant.
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    #31

    Aug 20, 2010, 12:56 PM

    Was he working for a circus?

    Were the disks his?

    Had he drank whiskey? (his breath)

    Is he a smoker?

    Was he shot from the back?

    From the chest?

    From the head?
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    Aug 20, 2010, 01:05 PM

    Was he being blackmailed about something and somebody went to the papers to release something about it and made him kill himsefl?
    No.

    Or... Did the papers reveal a secret about him?
    No.
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    #33

    Aug 20, 2010, 01:13 PM
    Was he working for a circus?
    Yes.

    Were the disks his?
    Already asked, but yes.

    Had he drank whiskey? (his breath)
    Very likely.

    Is he a smoker?
    Irrelevant.

    Was he shot from the back?
    From "self-inflicted gunshot wounds"? :p

    From the chest?

    From the head?
    Irrelevant.
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    #34

    Aug 20, 2010, 01:18 PM

    I was making sure it was suicide ;) Though I'm still confused as to why he used many bullets instead of one... which would have largely been sufficient...

    Plus, if the pistol can't be found, it means someone carried it away, hence it won't be a suicide...

    Okay... never mind.

    Was he so drunk that he got angry at himself over something he has done that he shot himself?

    Did anyone hear the shots? (Thinking about setting a time when he was killed)
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    #35

    Aug 20, 2010, 01:45 PM

    Yes, good point to be brought up. It never said that the gun was in the tent. It may have been one of those obvious things. So my questions is: Was the gun still there?
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    #36

    Aug 20, 2010, 01:51 PM
    I was making sure it was suicide ;) Though I'm still confused as to why he used many bullets instead of one... which would have largely been sufficient...
    The entire question is why the suicide. There's nothing anywhere that says anything about bullets. Re-read the original. (I can also post another summary of all questions, although right now I'm in and out, trying to get certain things done while it's sunny out.)


    Was he so drunk that he got angry at himself over something he has done that he shot himself?
    No.

    Did anyone hear the shots?
    Probably.
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    #37

    Aug 20, 2010, 01:54 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by adam_89 View Post
    Was the gun still there?
    Yes.
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    #38

    Aug 20, 2010, 01:57 PM

    Well, I think what he was talking about is that the original says he died from gun shot woundS instead of a wound.
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    #39

    Aug 20, 2010, 03:25 PM

    Oooh. I literally pasted it in from elsewhere and made sure I read it carefully, but still never noticed that. Maybe cause I knew it didn't mean anything and it just went over my head. No clue why it's plural. Sorry 'bout that.
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    #40

    Aug 20, 2010, 05:55 PM

    Were the wooden disks originally connected in some way ? Like a circus prop? A stilt?

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