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Desert Dead Man
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
There is a dead man in the middle of a desert. His clothes are unattached to his body. How did he die?
Answer
He jumped out of a burning plane using his clothes as a parachute, because the other parachutes have been used. He lost his grip and fell to the ground, dying on impact.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Nice attempt, but it couldn't work. Clothes simply won't create enough drag to imitate a parachute.
The dead guy probably thought that two. I guess desperation spoke louder than common sense.
Sp. [too]
or maybe it was the Egyptian Mafia?
i thought that he had taken off his clothes so he could get aired out and cooler, and still died from like dehydration or something...
Sorry but it won't work for another reason:
Each passenger has his own parachute.
How could they have been finished?
Each passenger has his own parachute.
How could they have been finished?
Rashad: someone took two, one had a hole in it, he was an extra passenger, etc.
i thought he died from sunburn. Is that possible? maybe if it was hot enough...
i thought he died from sunburn. Is that possible? maybe if it was hot enough...
May 13, 2005
I agree...Don't they keep parachutes on planes?He could of just pulled it out,despite the fact of the burning plane.
I thought three men(or any amount)were in a balloon when it started to drop.They threw their clothes over the edge to lose weight but they were still too heavy so one of them had to drop and it was him.
There are lots of different possibilies. I thought that he had stripped to use his clothes as shoes, because the sand was so hot. Sort of like on that movie Rat Race.
Maybe he was trying to get a tan?
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