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Cloudy Panic
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
Many uniformed men were running in panic from a green-grey cloud. Who were the men and why were they running away from a cloud?
Hint
They were wearing Military uniforms.The cloud was not your ordinary harmless rain-cloud.
Answer
They were French soldiers running away from a cloud of dangerous Chlorine gas that the German soldiers had used on the allies as an experiment in April 1915, during WWI in Ypres, Belgium.Chlorine gas would attack the lungs and cause them to fill with fluid: the poor soldiers would drown or be asphyxiated. After that incident, the soldiers could tell when chlorine gas was around, because the cloud was a kind of grey-green colour.
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Good teaser, best new Situation in quite a while in my opinion.
GOOD ONE...
That was good! The "uniformed men" gave it away a bit though.
Yeah, I agree that "uniformed men" gave it away, but good teaser nonetheless.
Well that was depressing.
"...an ecstasy of fumbling..."~Dulce et Decorum est (Wilfred Owen)
If you haven't read this poem, you should.
If you haven't read this poem, you should.
I got this teaser wrong because I did not have the heart or the possession of thought to say, knowing it was some for of Gas from the 30s or involving Hitler and Nazism. Go you. Just keep this type of teaser under wraps. Well, do what you like, I did not mean to sound like I was declaring or demanding or inconsiderate of your "Rights" to write anything you wanted.
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A Teaser...
I thought it was a tornato, because when a tornato accurs, the sky turns green. Strange, isn't it.
Oh... very sad. Not fun at all..
How about a nuclear cloud!!!!???? JK, the color makes no sense and ya u cudnt reeli run away from a nuclear cloud.
This was a very interesting teaser I love that it was historical
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