| Author | Message | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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A man lies dead ... what happened ? | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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was it murder? suicide? accident? natural causes? natural disaster? execution? act of war? supernatural causes? he was stabbed? shot? drowned? crushed? burned? blown up? suffocated? decapitated? dismembered? electrocuted? eaten? poisoned? he died of spontaneous combustion? disease? virus? bacteria? old age? bleeding? heart attack? shock? starvation? radiation poisoning? anaphylactic shock? hypothermia? he swallowed a sharp object? he was killed by a biological weapon? chemical weapon? nuclear weapon? plane crash? road accident? | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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almost forgot: man = human adult male? real? lies = oriented horizontally? dead = not alive? how long has he been dead: seconds? minutes? hours? days? weeks? months? years? | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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was it murder? suicide? accident? This one natural causes? natural disaster? execution? act of war? supernatural causes? he was stabbed? shot? yopish drowned? crushed? burned? blown up? suffocated? decapitated? dismembered? electrocuted? eaten? poisoned? he died of spontaneous combustion? disease? virus? bacteria? old age? bleeding? heart attack? shock? starvation? radiation poisoning? anaphylactic shock? hypothermia? he swallowed a sharp object? he was killed by a biological weapon? chemical weapon? nuclear weapon? plane crash? road accident? | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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almost forgot: man = human adult male? yes real? {yes} lies = oriented horizontally? yes but not relevant dead = not alive?yes definitely dead !!! how long has he been dead: seconds? minutes? hours? days? weeks? months? years? irrelevant - just try and work out how he died | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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An accident involving a gun? crossbow? other shooting weapon? If so, was he holding the weapon? was someone else holding the weapon? | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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An accident involving a gun? yopish crossbow? other shooting weapon? If so, was he holding the weapon? no was someone else holding the weapon? yes | ||
| Eliot (Eliot)
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Does it involve something like a gun but not? Does it involve a gun that doesn't use conventional bullets? Or is the gun involved indirectly (ie, he doesn't die of a bullet wound)? One other person involved? More? | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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Does it involve something like a gun but not? yopish Does it involve a gun that doesn't use conventional bullets? no Or is the gun involved indirectly (ie, he doesn't die of a bullet wound)? yopish One other person involved? More? two | ||
| Eliot (Eliot)
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any virtual reality/fiction elements relevant? Was he mainly responsible for his accidental death? Was Other Person Holding Weapon mainly responsible? Was Other Person Not Holding Weapon mainly responsible? Was the gunlike thing ever fired? | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Is there more than one gun involved? Is it technically a gun, but not what one would normally think of as a gun? Is there no gun involved, but one or more bullets? | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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any virtual reality/fiction elements relevant? no Was he mainly responsible for his accidental death? This is true Was Other Person Holding Weapon mainly responsible? This is true Was Other Person Not Holding Weapon mainly responsible? no - they were not responsible Was the gunlike thing ever fired? The gun was fired | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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Is there more than one gun involved? no - just one gun Is it technically a gun, but not what one would normally think of as a gun? no Is there no gun involved, but one or more bullets? no | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Did the person holding the gun fire it? intentionally? was it loaded? with normal bullets? did it fire a bullet? did the bullet hit the victim? shortly after being fired? did it cause an injury? was it a fatal injury? Person holding gun: human? adult? male or female? Third person: human? adult? male or female? | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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Did the person holding the gun fire it? yesintentionally? yes was it loaded? yes with normal bullets? yes did it fire a bullet? yes did the bullet hit the victim? yopish shortly after being fired? yes and no - and a VERY interesting question did it cause an injury? yes was it a fatal injury? yopish Person holding gun: human? adult? male or female? Adult male human Third person: human? adult? male or female? adult female human | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Is this happening on the planet Earth? Is a tree involved? The bullet yopishly hit the victim: did it come in physical contact with his body? his hair? his teeth? something he was wearing? something he was holding? was it moving? at normal bullet speed? Did the bullet yopishly hit the victim within one second of being fired? within ten seconds? within a minute? Was it constantly moving between being fired and yopishly hitting the victim? in approximately the same direction? was the gun aimed at the victim when it was fired? | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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Is this happening on the planet Earth? yes Is a tree involved? YES !!! The bullet yopishly hit the victim: did it come in physical contact with his body?this will do his hair? his teeth? something he was wearing? something he was holding? was it moving? yes at normal bullet speed? Did the bullet yopishly hit the victim within one second of being fired?yes within ten seconds? within a minute? Was it constantly moving between being fired and yopishly hitting the victim?yes in approximately the same direction? yes was the gun aimed at the victim when it was fired? yes | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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emailed | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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emailed - yes - you got it | ||
| Jennifer Warde (Tigger32382)
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Is one of the people in the tree? Is it the dead man? The other man? Does the bullet pass through the tree? Is some strange law of physics involved? Was the gun only fired once? Was the person shooting aiming at the dead man? | ||
| Lewis Zeiters (Lzeiters)
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Did the bullet hit the person more than once? Did both persons die? | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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Is one of the people in the tree? no Is it the dead man? no The other man? no Does the bullet pass through the tree? {sort of} Is some strange law of physics involved? no Was the gun only fired once? yes Was the person shooting aiming at the dead man? yes | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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Did the bullet hit the person more than once? b{no} Did both persons die? explore | ||
| Jennifer Warde (Tigger32382)
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the dead man obviously died, right? did the other person holding gun (i think this was the man) die? other person not holding gun (the woman?) die? was everyone who died meant to die? | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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the dead man obviously died, right? yes did the other person holding gun (i think this was the man) die? yes - he didn't die other person not holding gun (the woman?) die? yes was everyone who died meant to die? yopish | ||
| Jennifer Warde (Tigger32382)
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was the dead man meant to die? was the woman meant to die? did the same bullet kill the dead man and the woman? was it meant to? did it hit the dead man first? the woman? were either of them in the tree? | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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was the dead man meant to die? yes was the woman meant to die? yes did the same bullet kill the dead man and the woman? no was it meant to? no did it hit the dead man first? yes the woman? no were either of them in the tree? no | ||
| Jennifer Warde (Tigger32382)
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did the woman die from a bullet? did the bullet hit anything else after or before the first dead man? did the woman die by being crushed? | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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did the woman die from a bullet?no did the bullet hit anything else after or before the first dead man?before did the woman die by being crushed? no - it is important to work out WHY she died - not HOW she died | ||
| Jennifer Warde (Tigger32382)
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did it hit a tree? the woman? did she die because she was a witness? was she the person the man really wanted dead? | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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did it hit a tree? YES the woman? no did she die because she was a witness? no was she the person the man really wanted dead? no | ||
| Jennifer Warde (Tigger32382)
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Did the woman have an attachment or connection to the tree? was the tree okay? did she die before the dead man? Did the bullet ricochet off the tree to hit the dead man? Or pass through it? | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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Did the woman have an attachment or connection to the tree? no was the tree okay? explore did she die before the dead man? yes Did the bullet ricochet off the tree to hit the dead man? bit of this Or pass through it? and a bit of this | ||
| Jennifer Warde (Tigger32382)
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was the trunk okay? was the tree alive and standing upright to begin with? was it alive and standing upright after the bullet? did the bullet pass through the trunk? bounce off it? pass through a branch? the leaves? did the tree lose branches? leaves? was the woman chained to the tree? is this a normal tree? is the variety of tree important? | ||
| Kapil Kapur (Dinkie)
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I've been having a nightmare at work and won't have to do this puzzle justice. So I'm posting the SPOILER now ... ******SPOILER******************************** Three people Janet, John and James. Janet and John were lovers. James was Janet's brother. One day John decided he didn't really love Janet and finished the relationship. Janet was very upset and comiitted suicide. James was angry with John over Janet's demise. So he took a gun and shot John. But the bullet missed John and lodged into a tree. Twenty years later, John decided that he wanted to get rid of the tree as it was extremely large. So he blew the tree up with dynamite. The lodged bullet flew out and killed John instantly. This is a true story - I can't remember the actual names |
