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Asklemmy @lemmy.ml Kyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː) @slrpnk.net 1y ago

What's your favorite Enigma / Riddle / Sentence Puzzle?

Tomorrow is a big event at my university. I'd like to make a fun thing where the people of the Board Game society I am in can try to find me for a riddle, kind of a Where is Waldo in a place where there is a crap tone of people to find the NPC that'll give them a Riddle (Maybe something to win? No idea how I could do that detail)

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How easy should it be to solve?

My favorite longer puzzle is “there’s a naked man lying dead in a field with a stick in his hand. Asking me only yes/no questions, tell me why he is in the field and how did he die?”
- I'm ok with having some hards! It's a Board Game Society some of them can like a bit of challenge!
  
  Hmmmm Did you have to fight sir?
  
  No :)
  
  Are you waiting for something?
  
  No, I am dead. I can no longer wait :)
  
  Say, dead sir, can you answer yes to a question?
  
  Yes!
  
  Can you be somewhere else?
  
  No. Not unless someone were to move my body. But I am only in this field.
  
  Are you happy with your situation?
  
  No. I feel neither good nor bad, as I am dead. However, I didn’t want to die.
- Did he die right where he's lying now0?
  
  Yes, he did!
- I love Black Stories, this was the first one I have solved/played years ago.
  
  I won't give away the answer, that would not be f air
  
  I love them as well! I only know a couple, but I first heard them at a summer camp and they’re a great way to pass time with new friends while traveling.
- Was his death from natural causes?
  
  No. It was sudden :)
  
  Was his death an accident?
  
  In a way, yes.
  
  Did he die from a fall?
  
  Yes!
  
  Was he in water at some point recently?
  
  He was not.
  
  Was the stick being used by the man prior to death?
  
  It was! The stick was used by the man prior to his death. More specifically the man was compelled to receive the stick before he died.
- Lighting strike?
  
  Good guess! but no :)
- Did someone kill you
  
  No, I was not murdered :)
  
  Was it an accident
  
  No, it wasn’t an accident that killed him.
  
  **Edit: I want to clarify here that he didn’t intend to die, but death was certainly a possibility of the actions he was involved in before his death.
  
  Is the stick relevant to your death
  
  Yes!
  
  So did you smack yourself with it
  
  No. Hitting myself with the stick did not have a part in my death.
  
  Is the stick related to your death
  
  The stick didn’t inflict my death, but it is a clue to why I died.
- Shall I give a hint? ;)
  
  *Edit 1: I did not enter the field by land.
  
  *Edit 2: I fell into the field and this caused my death. Why did I fall, and from where?

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