Daily puzzles/problems.

[prendrelemick]

While Kasie thinks of a tricky one...

Two Snowmen in a field. One says to the other "Is it me, or can you smell carrot."


Sorry...

I'll get me coat.

[Sapphire]

Seeing the answer - I heard that one before! I did, and I completely forgot and couldn't figure it out again :bonk: The knots of the mind

A song to pass the time:
Five for Fighting - the Riddle

[kasie]

Oops, sorry - I forgot I had to provide another puzzle. How about another favourite crossword clue?

Tipped both ways for the Nursery Stakes. (7,5)

[MarkBastable]

Oops, sorry - I forgot I had to provide another puzzle. How about another favourite crossword clue?

Tipped both ways for the Nursery Stakes. (7,5)

Rocking Horse?


Assuming that's right....


A man enters a deserted field with a pack on his back, and he is found there dead.

Questions are allowed on this one - but to start you off - there are no animals or people in the field. He's perfectly healthy when he arrives.

[prendrelemick]

Lightening?

[MarkBastable]

Lightening?

Nope.

Forgive me - but because I'm obsessive and irritating about this kind of thing, there's no 'e' in it, when it's the flash that goes with thunder. It's a compulsion of mine. I'm more to be pitied than censured.

[Sapphire]

Maybe he fell into a well or something? But no, that should have been mentioned...

Is the pack heavy? In that case he might just have lost his footing, dropped forward and got crushed by the pack.

[MarkBastable]

Maybe he fell into a well or something? But no, that should have been mentioned...

Is the pack heavy? In that case he might just have lost his footing, dropped forward and got crushed by the pack.

He's lying on the grass - possibly next to two pieces of coal and a carrot, not that that's relevant. And the pack is not that heavy. An adult could walk perfectly normally while carrying it.

[Sapphire]

Hold on, first you say

A man enters a deserted field with a pack on his back

and now you say he's lying on the grass? Isn't it a bit hard to enter while lying on the grass? Does he die lying down, or standing up? Or isn't that important?

Any way: when the pack does not crush him, his heart does not suddenly stop (healthy) and he doesn't commit suicide by just holding his breath (healthy in his mind: no suicidal tendencies)... I guess the one option left is that he's struck by the wrath of the gods and dies because one of them throws something at him?
Or, leaving dieties out of it ill, a bird flies over the field and drops something which hits him right on the head Not sure what the significance of the pack is in that case though... Maybe it has bird food in it which makes the bird let go of whatever brick or other heavy object it has in its claws...

[iamnobody]

The pack is a parachute that failed to open? This makes sense since you said "enters" a field instead of "walks into". Or was that just random word choice?

[MarkBastable]

The pack is a parachute that failed to open? This makes sense since you said "enters" a field instead of "walks into". Or was that just random word choice?

No word choice I make is ever random.

Yep - you gottit.

Next?

[iamnobody]

This is my all-time favorite crossword.

Who's there (5 letters)

[iamnobody]

any one out there?

[billl]

Leeds

[billl]

Just in case I'm right, here's the next puzzle:

A smoker of herbal cigarettes (non-addictive, and low in tar) one day realized that his pack had finally run out (he only smoked one or two a day, because any sort of smoking isn't really so good for you). Anyhow, he wasn't going to be able to buy another pack of these special cigarettes for another month or so (they were only available at a certain shop that he rarely frequented).

While he didn't have any more cigarettes, he did, however, have an ashtray full of these cigarette butts. He realized that he could put five of the butts together, and make the equivalent of one whole cigarette. If there were 25 butts in his ashtray, how many cigarettes would he be able to enjoy before his next trip to the store?