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Sawdust
Situation
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.Situation
If the man had seen the sawdust, he wouldn't have died. What made him commit suicide?
Hint
The man is blind and works for the circus.A joke was played on him.
Answer
The man is a midget in the freakshow of the circus. He uses a wooden cane to direct himself. His friends wanted to play a joke on him and cut off the bottom half of his cane. When the man went to use it again, and his cane didn't reach the ground he assumed that he had grown taller and wasn't the shortest man in the circus anymore. Therefore he thought he would get fired and killed himself. If he had seen the sawdust he would have known that it was a joke and he wouldn't have died.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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Ever see Monty Python and the Holy Grail? There is a scene where the townspeople conclude a woman is a witch because you burn witches and wood also burns and wood also floats and ducks float so if the woman weighs the same as a duck she must be a witch.
Don Ray, can i ask what thats gotta do with the teaser? ( which was gd) btw Monty Python is gr8
Monty Python is the best - She turned me into a newt...........I got better.
What are you people taking?
What are you meaning by your comment? You're not meaning anything insulting right?
This solution overlooks the obvious fact that blind people are very aware of their surroundings, and use their other senses amazingly well. The blind midget probably would've noticed that his cane was not as heavy, if not even that it was not as long. Oh, well... Perhaps I'm just over-thinking this!
That's a mean practical joke.
Well, then again the blind midget was probably over reacting. There are other circuses!
Well, then again the blind midget was probably over reacting. There are other circuses!
What nice friends
I've seen this one before, but I still love it.
This is ridiculous. I am with Tregay-just because you are blind does not mean you are stupid.
Loss of weight of stick, guy would not assume he was taller.
Seriously?!
Loss of weight of stick, guy would not assume he was taller.
Seriously?!
I agree entirely with akl21.
The heck with seeing the sawdust, a sighted person would have seen the SHORT CANE.
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