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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
An artist was once commissioned to paint a portrait of the Duke of Monmouth, but he realized that he first required a sewing job. There was nothing wrong with the Duke's clothes, the artist's clothes, or the canvas. What needed to be sewed?
Hint
The Duke wasn't in good health...Answer
The Duke had been beheaded, and his head had to be fixed in place for the portrait.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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Grim Genius!
Ha ha! You were way ahead of me there!
This ones a little gorey.
Isn't this based on a true event that happened around Joan of Arc's time?
odd...but ok.
Ew.. I was just skimming through all the situation teasers, and this one just stopped me in my tracks! Ew..
I have to admit that the portrait would be much better and easier to view if his head were attached to his body! Good teaser!
can anyone else say "ew"
was the artist true to the subject matter in front of him, and paint the slightly greying face, the limp body and the stitch marks around the neck? (in which case one wonders why he didn't just paint the body without the head, it cacn't have looked worse...)
was the artist true to the subject matter in front of him, and paint the slightly greying face, the limp body and the stitch marks around the neck? (in which case one wonders why he didn't just paint the body without the head, it cacn't have looked worse...)
why did the painter have to sew the head back on? couldn't a doctor or somebody do it??
And if he was beheaded, how was his body and head still lying around? And what sort of an expression would he get from a dead head? Eww!
ew...
lol, nice one
N-nice one... L L
haha sweetime, that's what I was thinking
I thought maybe he had an open wound requiring stitches.
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