One Minute Mystery Thread

[Lyssan]

Who here is familiar with the concept of the One Minute Mystery? It is foray into lateral thinking that can almost be addictive, if the right mystery is put forth. A mystery is put forth in very sketchy terms that everyone needs to solve. The object is to sove the mystery by asking questions that can only be answered by either a yes or a no, or deemed irrelevant.

I propose we start an One Minute Mystery thread here and I'll mark it as a sticky so it doesn't get lost. And begin things by offering this mystery. Much like our riddle challenge thread, who ever solves it can either offer one up of their own or I will post another. Good luck people!


In the middle of the ocean is a yacht. Several corpses are floating in the water nearby.  

[Turpentity]

They all went swimming, but the last one forgot to put down the ladder, so they drowned.  

[Lyssan]

Dang, yer good..... sweatdrop gonk that's the solution, want to put one up yourself.... I chose an easy one to begin with to get people started, perhaps you might want to do the same, though the hard ones are better.... you choose. blaugh  

[Turpentity]

I don't know really many of these, but here's one.

A man has died in the middle of a field, with nothing that could possibly kill him in sight. A few yards away from the man is a backpack. There is nothing in the backpack either that could have killed him.  

[shall she sail seas]

Did he die of thirst?  

[Turpentity]

Nope.  

[Kerobian]

Hmmm...I know it, but don't want to kill it just yet.

However, I have a book of these sneaky little puzzles...if Lyssan wants, I can make an extra thread and we'll see how long it takes everyone to work their way through the book.  

[Lyssan]

Kero, let's keep it all to this thread... I have a list of about 130 such mysteries so we might actually have a ton of repeats between us and besides, two threads on the subject would be a bit of overkill. Anyway... have fun solving things, everyone... get out your magnifying glasses and sherlock holmes hats and have at 'em. xd  

[AsuraSyn]

His chute didn't open. That's the backpack.  

[Kerobian]

Okay, I'll deem that one correct, because I know that one. And now, to wake up this thread once more:

A Man, A Woman, and a Child were standing by the railroad, waiting for a train to come by. Suddenly, they see on coming in the distance, honking it's horn.

"Here it comes." Says the man.

"Here she comes." corrects the woman.

"Here he comes." Corrects the child.

Who has the proper grammar and why?  

[AsuraSyn]

gonk I hates grammatic riddles! Speeling was never my fort, ya know. crying
But I'mma go with none, since they all need a comma?  

[Turpentity]

Umm...I'm gonna go with the woman, coz aren't all kinds of ships and trains and stuff called "she"?  

[Kerobian]

Both Asura and Semtex are wrong. One of them is right, and it isn't the Woman.  

[AsuraSyn]

"It" comes, "he's" coming?  

[Kerobian]

What do you mean?