|
Source: (consider it)
|
Thread: Circus: lateral thinking game:
|
Gwai
Shipmate
# 11076
|
Posted
I don't know how many people here have played lateral thinking games before but the idea is that one person gives a cryptic statement and the the others ask yes or no questions to try to figure out what is going on.
Perhaps if this thread goes on very long, the person who solves the puzzle would like to start a new thread for the next puzzle? Otherwise these can get hard to join, but I'll leave that up to the hosts.
So, come ask questions to figure out what's going on. Anyone can ask questions and I'll try to check in regularly to answer them.
She said "Murderer!" So, he started to arrive to class on time.
[ 21. February 2010, 07:18: Message edited by: Alan Cresswell ]
--------------------
A master of men was the Goodly Fere,
A mate of the wind and sea.
If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere
They are fools eternally.
Posts: 11914 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Della
Apprentice
# 12190
|
Posted
Had he been killing time?
Posts: 4 | Registered: Dec 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Dal Segno
al Fine
# 14673
|
Posted
2. Was she his teacher?
3. Was she his mother?
--------------------
Yet ever and anon a trumpet sounds
Posts: 1200 | From: Pacific's triple star | Registered: Mar 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Ariel
Shipmate
# 58
|
Posted
It was a language class, he'd missed the bit on pronunciation and was murdering the language, so turned up on time the next week and started to get it right?
Posts: 25445 | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bullfrog.
Prophetic Amphibian
# 11014
|
Posted
Was he the murderer?
--------------------
Some say that man is the root of all evil
Others say God's a drunkard for pain
Me, I believe that the Garden of Eden
Was burned to make way for a train. --Josh Ritter, Harrisburg
Posts: 7522 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
EtymologicalEvangelical
Shipmate
# 15091
|
Posted
Was 'she' an alarm clock?
--------------------
You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
Posts: 3625 | From: South Coast of England | Registered: Sep 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
Paul.
Shipmate
# 37
|
Posted
Did he hear her correctly?
Posts: 3689 | From: UK | Registered: Jun 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
EtymologicalEvangelical
Shipmate
# 15091
|
Posted
Were he and she classmates?
--------------------
You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
Posts: 3625 | From: South Coast of England | Registered: Sep 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
Dafyd
Shipmate
# 5549
|
Posted
Was she accusing someone of having committed murder?
--------------------
we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
Posts: 10567 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Feb 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Bullfrog.
Prophetic Amphibian
# 11014
|
Posted
Was the shout "Murderer!" exclaimed in the context of an actual murder attempt?
--------------------
Some say that man is the root of all evil
Others say God's a drunkard for pain
Me, I believe that the Garden of Eden
Was burned to make way for a train. --Josh Ritter, Harrisburg
Posts: 7522 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bullfrog.
Prophetic Amphibian
# 11014
|
Posted
Did the statement "Murderer!" occur in a classroom?
If so...
Were the students in this class under the age of 18?
[ 06. February 2010, 03:48: Message edited by: Bullfrog. ]
--------------------
Some say that man is the root of all evil
Others say God's a drunkard for pain
Me, I believe that the Garden of Eden
Was burned to make way for a train. --Josh Ritter, Harrisburg
Posts: 7522 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
# 4544
|
Posted
Was she answering a question?
--------------------
"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Herrick
Shipmate
# 15226
|
Posted
Is Drama (as a subject) involved?
--------------------
A careless shoestring in whose tie
I see a wild civility
Posts: 1194 | From: NSW | Registered: Oct 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
EtymologicalEvangelical
Shipmate
# 15091
|
Posted
Was the word "murderer!" a cue in a drama?
--------------------
You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
Posts: 3625 | From: South Coast of England | Registered: Sep 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
Master Tubby Bear
Shipmate
# 9739
|
Posted
Had she just witnessed the death metal band Murderer play a private gig in the first lesson of the day at school, and he thought that there might be further death metal bands lined up for further private gigs in the first lesson of the day at school on subsequent days?
--------------------
In every I Love You there is a Goodbye
Posts: 391 | From: London, England | Registered: Jul 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
EtymologicalEvangelical
Shipmate
# 15091
|
Posted
Sorry, let me just rewrite my last question a bit more clearly:
Was the word "murderer!" a cue in a drama for him to arrive to class on time (in other words, the 'class' was a scene in the drama)?
--------------------
You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
Posts: 3625 | From: South Coast of England | Registered: Sep 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
Master Tubby Bear
Shipmate
# 9739
|
Posted
... and let me guess again if that's OK
Was this some bizarre parallel gothic universe where all the eponymous clocks are called not "cuckoo" clocks and have little birds in that pop out and warble on the hour, but "Murderer" clocks and have little figures of Lizzie Borden's mother in that pop out and accuse their offspring of matricide?
--------------------
In every I Love You there is a Goodbye
Posts: 391 | From: London, England | Registered: Jul 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Gwai
Shipmate
# 11076
|
Posted
Okay, I've been trying to post in separate posts to save people back reading to see what I'm referring to, but I have to run and don't have time to fight the flood monitor, so starting with Bullfrog:
No, and to answer your other question, only slightly relevantly yes
No
No
Lol, MTB, but no
That's clearer, but still no
And again, LOL but no.
--------------------
A master of men was the Goodly Fere,
A mate of the wind and sea.
If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere
They are fools eternally.
Posts: 11914 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Nunzia
Shipmate
# 4766
|
Posted
Did she blurt it out while reading the newspaper,and did he overhear her and ask for an explanation?
And was the article about s young man who had dropped out of school, and being unable to find a job with no skills, turned to crime and bad that same young man killed someone during a robbery and did he (the student) resolve then and there to get to school on time, and buckle down snd study in order to avoid that same sad fate?
--------------------
----- ---------. ---- - ---- ----.
Posts: 1903 | From: Crazy-glued to the ledge | Registered: Jul 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
EtymologicalEvangelical
Shipmate
# 15091
|
Posted
Were he and she playing a game?
--------------------
You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
Posts: 3625 | From: South Coast of England | Registered: Sep 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bullfrog.
Prophetic Amphibian
# 11014
|
Posted
Did the formerly-tardy individual still live with his or her parents at the time of the question?
--------------------
Some say that man is the root of all evil
Others say God's a drunkard for pain
Me, I believe that the Garden of Eden
Was burned to make way for a train. --Josh Ritter, Harrisburg
Posts: 7522 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
# 2716
|
Posted
Was the word "Murderer" said by a judge to a young delinquent before pronouncing his sentence to a Young Offender's Institute, which then meant that he was taken to classes from his cell - i.e. unable to be late any more?
--------------------
Miss you, Erin.
Posts: 14382 | From: Under the duvet | Registered: Apr 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
pimple
Ship's Irruption
# 10635
|
Posted
Visiting parents, boy dropped in to pub for a couple of pints on the way. Lunch is ruined.
"Murderer!" Yells mum. "I know, you. I could murder a pint you say. Only you murdered half a dozen - and your parents' day".
?
--------------------
In other words, just because I made it all up, doesn't mean it isn't true (Reginald Hill)
Posts: 8018 | From: Wonderland | Registered: Nov 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
EtymologicalEvangelical
Shipmate
# 15091
|
Posted
He used to dawdle to school by himself and arrive late, whereas all the other students would either walk together or ride together on the bus and therefore arrive on time. But one day he heard the news that a convict had escaped from the local prison. He found out about this from his sister who was watching this on the TV news in another room at home, and he overhead her shout in disgust "murderer!" Apparently this escaped convict had killed a child who had been walking by himself to school. Fearing that this convict 'on the loose' would attack him while he dawdled to school late, the lazy student decided from then on to travel to school on time with the other students. Is this right?
--------------------
You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
Posts: 3625 | From: South Coast of England | Registered: Sep 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gwai
Shipmate
# 11076
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by EtymologicalEvangelical:
He used to dawdle to school by himself and arrive late,
mostly true quote:
whereas all the other students would either walk together or ride together on the bus and therefore arrive on time. But one day he heard the news that a convict had escaped from the local prison. He found out about this from his sister who was watching this on the TV news in another room at home, and he overhead her shout in disgust "murderer!" Apparently this escaped convict had killed a child who had been walking by himself to school. Fearing that this convict 'on the loose' would attack him while he dawdled to school late, the lazy student decided from then on to travel to school on time with the other students. Is this right?
No to the rest.
--------------------
A master of men was the Goodly Fere,
A mate of the wind and sea.
If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere
They are fools eternally.
Posts: 11914 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Dafyd
Shipmate
# 5549
|
Posted
Is he a teacher?
--------------------
we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
Posts: 10567 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Feb 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
# 2716
|
Posted
Did he ask his teacher whether she had any previous convictions, and when she found out she was a murderer, he decided he'd better not mess her around any more?
--------------------
Miss you, Erin.
Posts: 14382 | From: Under the duvet | Registered: Apr 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
EtymologicalEvangelical
Shipmate
# 15091
|
Posted
This is a bit of a crazy question, but...
Was his name actually "Murderer"?
--------------------
You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
Posts: 3625 | From: South Coast of England | Registered: Sep 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
Nunzia
Shipmate
# 4766
|
Posted
Did his parents start bringing him to school?
--------------------
----- ---------. ---- - ---- ----.
Posts: 1903 | From: Crazy-glued to the ledge | Registered: Jul 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Nunzia
Shipmate
# 4766
|
Posted
..and/or was "murderer" a word in a spelling bee?
--------------------
----- ---------. ---- - ---- ----.
Posts: 1903 | From: Crazy-glued to the ledge | Registered: Jul 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nunzia
Shipmate
# 4766
|
Posted
OK, one more and I'll let someone else play..
Is he a human being?
--------------------
----- ---------. ---- - ---- ----.
Posts: 1903 | From: Crazy-glued to the ledge | Registered: Jul 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
# 2716
|
Posted
Is the class in question a school class? A university class? Not an education type class at all? (I'm British, remember, so at a natural disadvantage! ![[Biased]](wink.gif) )
--------------------
Miss you, Erin.
Posts: 14382 | From: Under the duvet | Registered: Apr 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Thread closed
Printer-friendly view
