Kyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)

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

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

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)

Sep 23, 2023 at 8:05pmWeb
Show threadatlasraven31Sep 23, 2023

They couldn’t do this in Rome

Today I’m working from Home

Show threadqwamqwamqwamSep 23, 2023
There is a riddles sublemmy, just fyi!
Show threadKyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)Sep 23, 2023
Oh? Could you send a link, I could not seem to find it
Show threadqwamqwamqwamSep 23, 2023
[email protected]
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 23, 2023

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?”

Show threadKyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)Sep 23, 2023

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?

Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 23, 2023
No :)
Show threadKyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)Sep 23, 2023
Are you waiting for something?
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 23, 2023
No, I am dead. I can no longer wait :)
Show threadKyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)Sep 23, 2023
Say, dead sir, can you answer yes to a question?
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 24, 2023
Yes!
Show threadKyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)Sep 24, 2023
Can you be somewhere else?
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 24, 2023
No. Not unless someone were to move my body. But I am only in this field.
Show threadKyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)Sep 24, 2023
Are you happy with your situation?
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 24, 2023
No. I feel neither good nor bad, as I am dead. However, I didn’t want to die.
Show threadKyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)Sep 24, 2023
Would I be dead if I took the stick?
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 24, 2023
You would not. The stick in and of itself is not harmful. (I love where that question was going, though. Like a voodoo stick or something!)
Show threadKyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)Sep 24, 2023
Did you have this Stick for a long time before your death (I thought Elise had found almost the answer with their question)
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 25, 2023
No, I didn’t have the stick for a long time before death.
Show threadKyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)Feb 12, 2024
Oh wait, are you a Seed! That died and so became a tree?
Show threadEliseSep 23, 2023
Did someone kill you
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 24, 2023
No :)
Show threadEliseSep 24, 2023
Was it an accident
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 24, 2023
No, it wasn’t an accident that killed him.
Show threadEliseSep 24, 2023
Is the stick relevant to your death
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 24, 2023
Yes!
Show threadKyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)Sep 24, 2023
Would I be dead if I took the stick?
Show threadEliseSep 24, 2023
So did you smack yourself with it
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 25, 2023
No. Hitting myself with the stick did not have a part in my death.
Show threadEliseSep 25, 2023
Is the stick related to your death
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 25, 2023
The stick didn’t inflict my death, but it is a clue to why I died.
Show threadHonoraryMancunianSep 24, 2023
Was his death from natural causes?
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 24, 2023
No. It was sudden :)
Show threadHonoraryMancunianSep 24, 2023
Was his death an accident?
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 24, 2023
In a way, yes.
Show threadHonoraryMancunianSep 25, 2023
Did he die from a fall?
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 25, 2023
Yes!
Show threadHonoraryMancunianSep 25, 2023
Was he in water at some point recently?
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 25, 2023
He was not.
Show threadHonoraryMancunianSep 26, 2023
Was the stick being used by the man prior to death?
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 26, 2023
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.
Show threadHonoraryMancunianSep 26, 2023
Did he know he was going to die by the time he’d received the stick?
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 26, 2023
This is a “Maybe, but probably yes”. While he didn’t know he would die, he did suspect he would be at least injured when he got a look at the stick he received.
Show threadHonoraryMancunianSep 26, 2023
Was the stick broken from something?
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 26, 2023
It was!
Show threadHonoraryMancunianSep 27, 2023
Was it part of a railing?
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 27, 2023
Yes!
Show threadHonoraryMancunianSep 27, 2023

Oh! Full on guess time!

Was he having an affair, but had to quickly dash to the (shoddy) balcony once the husband unexpectedly came back?

Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 27, 2023

A wonderful guess, but that is incorrect! There are no buildings around the field where his body lays.

You’re really getting the clues all together very quickly, though!

You are correct about the falling, but no affair and no shoddy balcony :)

Show threadHonoraryMancunianSep 27, 2023

Oki doki

Did he fall from a plane?

Show threadChaoticNeutralCzechSep 27, 2023

Without reading the rest of the comments, this sounds like a weird version of strip Truth or Dare where sticks, one of which is broken, are drawn instead of a spinning bottle.

Or airship pirates using this method to choose which one gets thrown overboard for some reason (and recovering clothes before that).

Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 27, 2023

Lol, this comment is all over the place, and you’ve got accurate guess tidbits all through it.

As for your actual question: Yes! A hot air balloon and multiple people were involved.

Not close on why he was naked, tho :P.

Show threadChaoticNeutralCzechSep 28, 2023
It was failing and they needed to reduce weight by discarding their belongings? Then tore apart some of the railing for a stick-drawing game to see who would need to be thrown overboard to save the rest?
Show threadHonoraryMancunianSep 28, 2023
You’d think they could just land it instead of sacrificing one of them, lol
Show threadChaoticNeutralCzechSep 28, 2023
If it’s lost enough hot air to accelerate downward uncontrollably, that would be a crash landing nobody would survive
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 28, 2023

Yes! The balloon was losing altitude and after dropping all of the sand bags on the balloon, they decided someone needed to exit so that the others might be saved.

They took some of the reeds from the balloon basket so they could “draw straws” to see who had to jump. Our man was the unlucky winner who drew the “short straw”.

Since he is now dead in the field with only his short straw in his hand, we know the fall didn’t work out for him.

But can you tell me why he was naked?

Show threadChaoticNeutralCzechSep 28, 2023
Naked because they shed their clothes and belongings first
Show threadangrystegoSep 24, 2023
Did he die right where he’s lying now0?
Show threadRagnarokOnlineSep 24, 2023
Yes, he did!
Show thread𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠Sep 24, 2023
Lighting strike?