| Author | Message | ||
| Benjamin Moore (Zenith)
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the phone rang out, the lights flickered and he went to sleep. | ||
| Dref (Dref)
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Any ghosts? | ||
| Benjamin Moore (Zenith)
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Any ghosts? no | ||
| Eliot (Eliot)
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he= human? adult? alive at beginning of puzzle? alive at the end? relevant who's calling? | ||
| Benjamin Moore (Zenith)
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he= human? adult? alive at beginning of puzzle? alive at the end? relevant who's calling? yes to all  | ||
| Sam Greene (Pandora)
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Did he hear the phone? Ignore it on purpose? attempt to answer it? was he in his home at the time? fell asleep in his bed? did he know the caller? was he expecting a call? | ||
| Benjamin Moore (Zenith)
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Did he hear the phone? yes Ignore it on purpose? FA attempt to answer it? no was he in his home at the time? yes fell asleep in his bed? yes did he know the caller? yes was he expecting a call? no | ||
| Mezzoforte (Mezzoforte)
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Was it a science experiment? | ||
| Mezzoforte (Mezzoforte)
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Did anyone pick up the phone? | ||
| Eliot (Eliot)
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Was he unable to answer it? Did the person calling expect the call to be answered? Did the phone ringing make the lights flicker? Did the lights flickering cause him to go to sleep? Did the phone ringing cause him to go to sleep? | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Was he the caller? Did the lights flicker in his home? in the room he was in? on the phone? was the phone in his bedroom? | ||
| Benjamin Moore (Zenith)
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Was it a science experiment? \b|no} Did anyone pick up the phone? yope Was he unable to answer it? yes Did the person calling expect the call to be answered? yes Did the phone ringing make the lights flicker? no Did the lights flickering cause him to go to sleep? yope Did the phone ringing cause him to go to sleep? yope Was he the caller? yes Did the lights flicker in his home? yes in the room he was in? yes on the phone? yes was the phone in his bedroom? yes | ||
| Dref (Dref)
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Was there a storm raging? | ||
| Benjamin Moore (Zenith)
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Was there a storm raging? \b[no} | ||
| HotBod (Hotbod)
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Did he get an answering machine? Was it a regular phone? or Mobile phone? The person he called - Sex? Age? Any relation to him? Friend? | ||
| Benjamin Moore (Zenith)
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Did he get an answering machine? irrelevent Was it a regular phone? yes or Mobile phone? no The person he called - Sex? male but irr. Age? young adult Any relation to him? no Friend? yes, but not necessarily | ||
| Eliot (Eliot)
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Was he waiting to fall asleep until the phone rang? Until the lights flickered? Was there a physical barrier between him and the phone? Was he somehow fixed to the bed? Tied down? | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Were the lights on before they flickered? were they on after they stopped flickering? relevant? Did the flickering light serve the same purpose as would have been served if the call had been answered? eg. did it give him the same information? | ||
| Benjamin Moore (Zenith)
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Was he waiting to fall asleep until the phone rang? yope, RPA Until the lights flickered? Was there a physical barrier between him and the phone? Was he somehow fixed to the bed? Tied down? no to all Were the lights on before they flickered? yes were they on after they stopped flickering? yes relevant? yes Did the flickering light serve the same purpose as would have been served if the call had been answered? yes eg. did it give him the same information? no | ||
| Eliot (Eliot)
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Did the caller want to tell him something about the lights? Something about falling asleep? | ||
| Benjamin Moore (Zenith)
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Did the caller want to tell him something about the lights? Something about falling asleep? no to both, see above | ||
| Dref (Dref)
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Was he deaf? | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Did the lights flicker for the same reason as the phone rang out? was there a power cut? did the person he was calling do something to cause the lights to flicker? was that person also at home? was he in the same country? same city/town/whatever? did any light(s) flicker other than the light(s) on the phone? | ||
| Benjamin Moore (Zenith)
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Was he deaf? no Did the lights flicker for the same reason as the phone rang out? no was there a power cut? yes did the person he was calling do something to cause the lights to flicker? no was that person also at home? no was he in the same country? irr. same city/town/whatever? irr. did any light(s) flicker other than the light(s) on the phone? yes Good questions | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Did the power cut cause the lights to flicker? Was he waiting for the phone to be answered before he fell asleep? Was he calling to find information? provide information? make a request? Was he calling the person's home? | ||
| (Stuccosalt)
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Was there an outage? Did something major temporarily sap power from the area? (Wild guess): Was someone being executed by electric chair? | ||
| Benjamin Moore (Zenith)
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Did the power cut cause the lights to flicker? yope Was he waiting for the phone to be answered before he fell asleep? yope Was he calling to find information? yope provide information? yes make a request? yes Was he calling the person's home? yes Was there an outage? no Did something major temporarily sap power from the area? no (Wild guess): Was someone being executed by electric chair? no | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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The person being called (James): was his home in the same area? nearby? next door? Was the caller (Andrew) calling to ask him to do something that would let him fall asleep? Had James left something switched on, and the power cut knocked it off? Did whatever caused the power cut also cause the lights to flicker? | ||
| Benjamin Moore (Zenith)
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The person being called (James): was his home in the same area? nearby? next door? yes Was the caller (Andrew) calling to ask him to do something that would let him fall asleep? yes Had James left something switched on, and the power cut knocked it off? yes Did whatever caused the power cut also cause the lights to flicker? yes There's not that much left in this puzzle any more | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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So, the thing that James left switched on, was it something making a loud noise? a stereo? and Andrew was calling to ask him to switch it off? Do we need to find out what caused the power cut? was it caused by something Andrew did? | ||
| Benjamin Moore (Zenith)
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I made a slight Blooper earlier, but Wunderland's post is still close enough to the $poiler... * * * * * * SPOILER * * * * * * * Andrew and James live next door to each other in college. Andrew, however, uses his TV as an alarm clock. One weekend, Andrew was spending the night at a friend's house (which was actually in another town - he went and saw a play), but had accidently left his alarm active. The next day, his TV turned on as usual, but as Andrew wasn't there to turn it off, it remained on all day. James comes home at about 1am that evening. He hear's Andrew's TV on, and so he rings Andrew's phone to ask him to turn it down. When Andrew doesn't answer, James realises what had happened, so he goes down to the switchbox and flicks the main switch off and on. This resets the clock on Andrews tv, and also leaves the tv in standbye mode. James goes to sleep. |
