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This puzzle answer is ridiculous right?

161 replies

Parkandride · 04/02/2021 19:12

Two men went into a restaurant. They both ordered the same dish from the menu. After they tasted it, one of the men went outside the restaurant and shot himself. Why?

I'll put the answer below incase you want to guess. But I can't see how the hell you could ever reach this conclusion Confused

OP posts:
wellthatsunusual · 06/02/2021 09:19

@SparkysMagicPiano

Moving on from fucking Boswell.

A man pushes his car to to a hotel and when he arrives there he becomes bankrupt.

What is going on?

Monopoly!
Clawdy · 06/02/2021 09:38

But why is he called "And" for short?? I still don't get it!

LApprentiSorcier · 06/02/2021 09:42

'And' for short refers to his first name being Andrew, which according to the solution posted here, is part of the riddle - what his his full name and occupation? It's how you punctuate it, so it needs to be spoken to work:

There is a man call Boswell ('And' for short). They call him Boss, and he walks into the post office in the morning. What is his name and occupation?
.

SparkysMagicPiano · 06/02/2021 09:46

@wellthatsunusual

Correct.

Nocaloriesinchocolate · 06/02/2021 09:55

Re the deep sea diver and the rain forest - he's on holiday, so not at work deep sea diving at the time?

OhMsBeliever · 06/02/2021 10:10

@LApprentiSorcier

'And' for short refers to his first name being Andrew, which according to the solution posted here, is part of the riddle - what his his full name and occupation? It's how you punctuate it, so it needs to be spoken to work:

There is a man call Boswell ('And' for short). They call him Boss, and he walks into the post office in the morning. What is his name and occupation?
.

Ahh, thank you! I finally get it!

I'm incredibly shit at these sort of puzzles, my brain can never make sense of them.

TimeIhadaNameChange · 06/02/2021 16:40

Think both of mine were solved:

A) man was diving, sucked up by fire helicopter which deposited water and diver into burning jungle

B) woman believed she was last person alive so jumped to end the loneliness. Phone ringing meant there was someone else still living.

00100001 · 02/03/2021 22:49

So Boswell wasn't "solved" then..

The OP posted THE WRONG WORDS COMPLETELY, and kept on insisting that she was absolutely correct when she wasn't.

I'm glad the "original" Boswell was wrong..
.makes it less frustrating Grin

Ninkanink · 03/03/2021 09:04

@00100001

So Boswell wasn't "solved" then..

The OP posted THE WRONG WORDS COMPLETELY, and kept on insisting that she was absolutely correct when she wasn't.

I'm glad the "original" Boswell was wrong..
.makes it less frustrating Grin

Yes. Infuriating.

I like the proper version of the riddle - it makes sense and has an historical bent to it that I quite like. A bit of a letdown after all that build up, to be sure. Imagine bastardising a riddle (of course we don’t know whether that was OP or her ILs) so that it’s just plain wrong and missing half the clues/question to be answered and then insisting that people didn’t have the right answer, well...grrrrr.

Anyway. Boswell as per MN was a shit version of a pretty good riddle as far as I’m concerned.

Octane · 03/03/2021 13:42

@Ovenhell

As a family we actually worked this riddle out when I was about 14 ... I like it ☺️
Haha, sure you did.
00100001 · 03/03/2021 17:28

@Octane

Why wouldn't a family be able to solve the Boswell riddle?

She didn't say she solved it in her own at 14.

Octane · 03/03/2021 17:55

[quote 00100001]@Octane

Why wouldn't a family be able to solve the Boswell riddle?

She didn't say she solved it in her own at 14.[/quote]
The person I quoted was talking about the riddle in the OP, not the boswell thing.

AfterEightsBeforeEight · 04/03/2021 10:40

Sorry, but this albatross thing isn't a riddle unless I'm missing something spectacular. For it to be a riddle it must cleverly contain the answer.

Two men order something. After eating it, one shoots himself, why?

Well that could be anything. Maybe one man had been shot in the head but lived, and the bullet remained lodged in his head safe, as long as it didn't move, as it would cause a fatal haemorrhage if it did. However where it remained, blocked his sense of taste. He ordered something and could taste it, which meant the bullet had moved, and he knew he was about to have a brain haemorrhage, so chose to shoot himself there and then.

Equally the "right" answer. Because it's not a riddle. It's a scenario with no specific information to lead you to my answer any more than the ridiculous idea that the man had been stranded on an island with another man, oh and a son (not mentioned anywhere) and the son died, and they ate him thinking he was a sodding albatross?!

This. Is. Not. A. Riddle. And it really gets my goat when people make up utter crap and think they're very clever with their "unsolvable riddle."

apalledandshocked · 04/03/2021 11:03

A man lies dead in a muddy field. There are no footprints leading to or away from the body, and no clue as to his death except for an unopened bag that lies with him. How did he die???

AfterEightsBeforeEight · 04/03/2021 11:49

Similarly, the deep sea diver one, is a riddle. A little on the far fetched side that a human would get sucked up out of the sea unnoticed, but there's pretty much only one solution. And there's context. It only works if the man was in the sea, ie a diver. And the burning rainforest. You can see the connection between fire and water even if not the rest immediately.

The woman who jumps out of the 20 storey window then screams as her phone rings...less so. Is she jumping to her safety? Or can we assume she is jumping to her death, (is this voluntary or not? Not enough information so you have to completely speculate this as well). The only thing we know is that her phone ringing causes her to scream. So whatever this signifies alarms her.

So the answer "the building was on fire, she was jumping into a safety net, and to jump on the count of three unless she heard her phone ring, they saw on the count of two that the net was faulty, tried to call her, but she'd already jumped" can be as correct as "she thought she was the last woman alive then someone rang her phone after she jumped, so she couldn't be".

Being the last woman alive is such a far fetched unlikely, illogical situation to ever truly occur, that you need to hint at something that would make this "make sense". Lots of potential answers because there is insufficient information given...not a riddle.

00100001 · 04/03/2021 11:58

@apalledandshocked

A man lies dead in a muddy field. There are no footprints leading to or away from the body, and no clue as to his death except for an unopened bag that lies with him. How did he die???
Failed parachute
Octane · 04/03/2021 12:35

@apalledandshocked

A man lies dead in a muddy field. There are no footprints leading to or away from the body, and no clue as to his death except for an unopened bag that lies with him. How did he die???
Inside the bag was an albatross. The man had been stranded many years earlier on a desert island. On this day, he found the bag in a field and when he saw the albatross inside, it reminded him of his son, who was actually an albatross. The sudden grief caused him to die of a heart attack. A nearby rookery of albatrosses saw what occurred and performed a mourning ritual around the man's body that involved brushing the ground with their open wings, which removed all footprints.

Pretty obvious, right? Me and my family actually figured it out when I was 14.

AfterEightsBeforeEight · 04/03/2021 12:37

@Octane that has to be the funniest thing I've read in a long time, thank you Grin

apalledandshocked · 04/03/2021 12:56

@Octane Yup. Pretty obvious when you think about it really. Nice try though @00100001

GinnieHempstock · 04/03/2021 12:57

HappyTimeTunnelDinosaur
@NannyGythaOgg Is the surgeon a woman, so his mum? Or a gay man, so his other dad?
Yep the surgeon is his mother.

I used to use this as part of equality training and it never failed to amaze me how few people got it, even though the training was about equality

@NannyGythaOgg my old boss told me this one years ago - laughing about how he couldn’t figure out the answer. He didn’t seem to understand why I was a bit offended. He was a professor of surgery, I was his (female) registrar... 😲😀

terrywynne · 04/03/2021 13:33

I was going to ask if anyone remembered the surgeon riddle so glad to see it mentioned. So obvious and rather depressing when you realise why people struggle to solve it!

I have vague memories of an infuriating 'pun' type puzzle I knew when I was younger. Along the lines of "you are in a room in a tower with no doors or windows and just one table. How do you escape?" The beginning of the answer was "You saw the table so you used the saw to saw it in half. Two halves make a whole (hole)" After that I forget where it went next but I think a rope featured and it kept going for ages.

00100001 · 04/03/2021 13:55

[quote apalledandshocked]**@Octane* Yup. Pretty obvious when you think about it really. Nice try though @00100001*[/quote]
Darn it

FlightOfTheCat · 04/03/2021 14:10

@spaceghetto

Was it this game, by any chance?!

This puzzle answer is ridiculous right?
apalledandshocked · 04/03/2021 14:47

@00100001 Grin

I have one more...
Imagine you are in a small room. There are no doors or windows, the walls are reinforced concrete and you have nothing on you that can break through it. There is no furniture in the room or anyone else except you. How do you get out?

Soberfutures · 04/03/2021 15:02

Stop imagining?

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