Bombersftw wrote:This is the best riddle I know...
In a room there's a bed, on the bed a small man lays dead, on the floor is a gun covered in shavings. in the corner of the room there is a stick. Another man opens the door, looks into the room and starts laughing, and closes the door again. Firstly who is the dead person, and who is the 2nd person. Why is the dead person dead. how did they die?
Ask any questions you want.. ill respond with yes or no if u need help
rishaed wrote:Is the stick a cane? Did the man shoot hand/foot off and die of blood loss? Did the man shoot himself (accidently)? Is the second man his son? Is the second man his lawyer?
1. no 2. no 3. no 4. no 5. no
Hint. What is the purpose of the stick What is the dead mans profession
Are these men celebrities? No Are these men fictionnal characters? No Did either man intend to shoot the other? Technically no... If yes, was it the first man? Yes (first man shot himself) but why? the second man? therefore no both men? no Is the second man inanimate and/or attached to something that makes him take the action he did (open, laugh, close)?? No Is this based on a movie? no is this based on a book? no
Time for another hint. Both Men worked in the circus. (which really should be in the start of the riddle... I dont know why it is never spoken about in the actual riddle itself but oh well, should make your options and guesses more specific.. I'll repost the riddle in next comment.)
In a room there's a bed, on the bed a small man lays dead, on the floor is a gun covered in shavings. in the corner of the room there is a stick. Another man opens the door, looks into the room and starts laughing, and closes the door again. Firstly who is the dead person, and who is the 2nd person. Why is the dead person dead. how did they die?
What do we know?? 1. Shortest guy died from bullet 2. he shot himself. 3. They worked in the circus Why did he shot himself? What is the purpose of the stick? How is the 2nd man involved?
Ok Bomber, so you said that this is at the circus, and these aren't fictional characters so this must be based on a true story...
This is the first time we find out that one guy is shorter...
You say the stick is important... could the guy that got shot been walking the high wire with his balance stick thing (not sure what they call it, I'm a fire eater not a tightrope walker) and when he was accidentally shot by the first man who was doing something else he landed in the "bed" the catch net thing?
The dead man was the worlds shortest man, travelling with the circus earning top dollar. The second man was the world's second smallest man, with a much smaller pay packet.
In a cunning scheme, the second man has been slowly shaving tiny bits from the bottom of the first man's walking stick, making him believe that each day he had grown slightly. When the first man noticed that he was getting taller, because his stick no longer fit him, he shot himself in despair at losing his #1 shortest man spot.
crispybits wrote:Ah... ah soon as I saw circus I knew it!
The dead man was the worlds shortest man, travelling with the circus earning top dollar. The second man was the world's second smallest man, with a much smaller pay packet.
In a cunning scheme, the second man has been slowly shaving tiny bits from the bottom of the first man's walking stick, making him believe that each day he had grown slightly. When the first man noticed that he was getting taller, because his stick no longer fit him, he shot himself in despair at losing his #1 shortest man spot.
Someone already asked wheter the stick was a cane and the answer was "no".
rishaed wrote:Is the stick a cane? Did the man shoot hand/foot off and die of blood loss? Did the man shoot himself (accidently)? Is the second man his son? Is the second man his lawyer?
1. no 2. no 3. no 4. no 5. no
Hint. What is the purpose of the stick What is the dead mans profession
crispybits wrote:Ah... ah soon as I saw circus I knew it!
The dead man was the worlds shortest man, travelling with the circus earning top dollar. The second man was the world's second smallest man, with a much smaller pay packet.
In a cunning scheme, the second man has been slowly shaving tiny bits from the bottom of the first man's walking stick, making him believe that each day he had grown slightly. When the first man noticed that he was getting taller, because his stick no longer fit him, he shot himself in despair at losing his #1 shortest man spot.
close enough to spot on. on the stick it matched his height and slowly became shorter than he, thus giving the illusion of growing. so it was a measuring stick not a cane and invdr, I cocked up saying shortest there should of been dead :S, other than that the rest was copy paste
That is the best one I know. Others are much more simple. Learnt that at school at a role call by some teacher, took the kids 4 days to get it.. with every student asking 1 question when their name was called
Okay.... So 9 one handed men are visited by a man in a black cape. The man shows them a box, they look inside and smile. The man in a black cape leaves. The next morning the 9 one handed men read about a murder where the corpse had a hand cut off. The morning after the man in the black cape is dead. Why?
aage wrote: Maybe you're right, but since we receive no handlebars from the mod I think we should get some ourselves.
rishaed wrote:Okay.... So 9 one handed men are visited by a man in a black cape. The man shows them a box, they look inside and smile. The man in a black cape leaves. The next morning the 9 one handed men read about a murder where the corpse had a hand cut off. The morning after the man in the black cape is dead. Why?
Were their hands in the box. so they cut his off and killed him?
Is this the one where there were 10 men in a lifeboat/plane crash/similar where they didnt have enough food to survive, so they took it in turns to cut one of their hands off for everyone to eat to stay alive, but on the morning of the 10th day they were rescued so the last man never had to cut his hand off. The other 9 told him he must still cut his hand off to be fair to the group, so he kills someone and cuts their hand off and shows it to them.
Then the next day the 9 find out about the deceit, and one of them kills the (still 2-handed) man who tried to con them?
rishaed wrote:Okay.... So 9 one handed men are visited by a man in a black cape. The man shows them a box, they look inside and smile. The man in a black cape leaves. The next morning the 9 one handed men read about a murder where the corpse had a hand cut off. The morning after the man in the black cape is dead. Why?
Ok are the 9 one handed men single handed by accident or by choice/circumstance?
Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!"
On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
Invdr_zim wrote:Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!"
On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
If sunday is the same distance away from sunday... the only possible day it could be is a sunday? So maybe they were going to a sunday school? No idea hahaha . ... yesterday = s .. 7 M T W T F S S M T W T F s S m T W T F S S M T W T F S S . 7 .. today m = tomrrow
Invdr_zim wrote:Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!"
On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
If sunday is the same distance away from sunday... the only possible day it could be is a sunday? So maybe they were going to a sunday school? No idea hahaha . ... yesterday = s .. 7 M T W T F S S M T W T F s S m T W T F S S M T W T F S S . 7 .. today m = tomrrow
