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Mountaineers
A group of three mountaineers set off to climb a mountain. Their names were Jake, Louisa, and Arnel. As they were approaching the half way point of their climb, they ran into another group of mountaineers with four members, Daniel, Rachel, Sam and Trent. They decided to climb the mountain together, making it one group of seven mountaineers. Near the summit, one of the mountaineers, Daniel, fell ill, was air lifted to the hospital, and made a full recovery. Meanwhile at the top of the mountain, the mountaineers set camp. During the night while the mountaineers were asleep in their tents, a huge storm came overhead, with very strong winds. Near midnight all of the tents were thrown off the mountain sending the mountaineers falling 2,000 feet down onto jagged rocks. All but one mountaineer died. Who survived?
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Daniel survived, as he was not with Rachel, Jake, Arnel, Louisa, Sam and Trent, when they were thrown off the mountain onto jagged rocks.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Perhaps you meant "only one survived" and not "all but one"?
Perhaps you meant "only one survived" and not "all but one"?
Looked like it was going to be clever, but turned out to be terribly easy.
Whoops, didn't catch the "all but one" part when I edited this one. I'll ask Jake to fix it.
Jan 22, 2003
your teaser is to long for anyone to read
Good teaser! Kind of easy though!
Nice but too easy
ramsey, if u had trouble reeding that, i sugest u go talk 2 ur 2nd grade teecher
A tad easy, but not to bad!
it was a great riddle
Your riddle is sick my dad died in a mountaineering acident, reading this has brought back painful memories
Are you KIDDING?
May 08, 2003
Great teaser. Easy, but fun. btw, the typo hasn't been fixed yet...
Martybhoy - That's really sad, but you don't need to criticize whoever made this riddle because they wrote the storyline that way.
there isn't a typo it says: "all but one died", which means that "only one survived" (everybody, except one person, died...)
twas nice and easy though, thanks
twas nice and easy though, thanks
A bit too easy for my taste. Good one though!!!!
its obvious that Daniel was the one who survived because you stated he left ill and was AIR LIFTED off the mountain. But I still give you credit for even posting this
wow, that's pretty dark...jagged rocks huh? yeah, that'll kill ya.
great teaser tho, nice and easy. i got it right away...this is one of the few that actually make me feel smart....
great teaser tho, nice and easy. i got it right away...this is one of the few that actually make me feel smart....
btw, martybhoy, it's ur fault for readin this...
if i'd suffered thru a traumatic train accident, i wouldn't be stupid enough to read something titled "Trains"
if i'd suffered thru a traumatic train accident, i wouldn't be stupid enough to read something titled "Trains"
What if the guy who became ill died on his way to the hospital, or what if he died in the hospital from the illness, even though he went to the hospital he could have still died.
yes, but it says that he made a full recovery
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