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Greetings Forum-goers!

I've decided that last week's puzzle was far too ambiguous for there to be a 'right' answer. To be honest, every answer was feasable in some sense- the answer I had in mind would have just made you all groan.

Results:

Best Answer: JuNii (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12669601&postcount=66)

Most Imaginative Answer: Terrorist Cakes (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12669344&postcount=45)

Most Reasonned Thinking: Nobel Hobos (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12678095&postcount=97)

By the way, you can now click on the names of the winners to see the posts that brought them to fame!


Today's Puzzle:

One day a woman gave a man something to eat. It caused him to die. It was not poisoned or drugged in any way, and no, he didn't choke on it. (He wasn't allergic to it either)

Why did he die?

Oh, by the way, If more than one person posts the right answer, I will choose the winner at random rather than rewarding the first person to post.

It's not the most challenging of puzzles, but good luck anyway!

I'd say it was Eve. But then, that story isn't sensible.

Alternatively, he was allergic to peanuts, and she gave him a peanut, and he died from anaphylactic shock.

Sorry, to be so deadpan and dreary!

Aside: isn't it funny how the attempt to ensure things always warn of nuts by law, means that everything says it 'may contain traces of nuts' even when it almost certainly doesn't. That must piss allergic people off.

One day a woman gave a man something to eat. It caused him to die. It was not poisoned or drugged in any way, and no, he didn't choke on it.

Why did he die?

Oh, by the way, If more than one person posts the right answer, I will choose the winner at random rather than rewarding the first person to post.

Good luck!

he was allergic to the food, and died of an anaphylactic shock

why at random?

another one of these?

why at random?

It's just to be fair to 'latecomers'- people who work out the right answer and want to win.

It's just to be fair to 'latecomers'- people who work out the right answer and want to win.

why not just name them all the winner? and it allows cheating.

and you added the non allergic thing later :(;)

[I]One day a woman gave a man something to eat. It caused him to die. It was not poisoned or drugged in any way, and no, he didn't choke on it. (He wasn't allergic to it either)

One assumes it was not radioactive, razorsharp or exploding either ;) ?

Why did he die?


Fourth death in four puzzles? Not all is a matter of life and death, HT.

She gave him thick ultra-crunchy hot and spicy Mexican tortilla chips (nachos), which he gobbled down ravenously. He did not chew them well, and the unchewed, sharp pieces of tortilla chips sliced his esophagus open as they went down his gullet. 'Course, them offending tortilla chips were evil enough to even puncture the aorta lying to the left of and slightly posterolateral to the esophagus, causing that major artery to burst. Adding insult to the injury, these chips ripped through the mediastinum and the pleura, causing the right lung to collapse and severing the right phrenic nerve; and they tore up the diaphragm as it passed down the esophageal hiatus, making it really difficult to breathe.
Sliced esophagus + burst aorta + collapsed lung + ineffective diaphragm = death.

Moral: Don't eat tortilla chips. They're bad for your health.

(And no, this is not choking. Choking occurs when food goes down the trachea and respiratory tract instead of the esophagus.)

Today's Puzzle:

One day a woman gave a man something to eat. It caused him to die. It was not poisoned or drugged in any way, and no, he didn't choke on it. (He wasn't allergic to it either)

Why did he die?Because the something is nothing in the literal sense. He was given nothing to eat.

It was a tub full of beans.

Thank you Maddox.:)

Fourth death in four puzzles? Not all is a matter of life and death, HT.

:p Sorry, deaths are just good for puzzles, that's all.

I'll try to make it more pleasant next week.

It was probably undercooked and hence ridden with salmonella and other lovely toxic bacteria or it had gone bad. After all, food can only kill when there is something wrong with it and given that the food was not drugged in any way, poisoned, it means that it was likely the food itself. As the OP says, the man didn't choke and wasn't allergic to it, so the best possible answer stems from the food not being rpepared properly and being naturally contaminated.

After all, food can only kill when there is something wrong with it

Well.. I could easily kill you with a few thousands kilogrammes of prime high-quality beef. Just by dropping it on your head or forcing it down your throat ;)

Well.. I could easily kill you with a few thousands kilogrammes of prime high-quality beef. Just by dropping it on your head or forcing it down your throat ;)

Well, let's assume that she fed this poor man a normal size meal. There are various possibilities of course, but no real details are provided in the question so we have to make educated guesses and fill in the blanks.

The man was fed a hand grenade which promtly exploded in his stomach. Therefore he died.

Our most miserable subject had awoken screaming that morning having just had a terrible dream (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12669134&postcount=36). As he went through his daily routine, he felt something was wrong, but attempted to dismiss his feelings as he went to meet his wife for breakfast.
When he saw her, he first noticed that she was completely naked, and next that she was offering him an apple. The breath caught in his throat and he heard the grim monotone of the narrator: "One day a woman gave a man something to eat."
It hadn't been just a dream; there was no escape from this Hell of an existence. The man spun on his heel and ran off the nearest cliff, rupturing many somewhat important organs when he hit the ground.
In the silence that followed his impact with the ground, the narrator went on: "It caused him to die. It was not poisoned or drugged in any way, and no, he didn't choke on it. (He wasn't allergic to it either)."
A second thud as Eve leapt over the cliff after the eternally nameless man.
"Why did he die?"

Fourth death in four puzzles? Not all is a matter of life and death, HT.

It is in these puzzles. :p All of which are apparently set in the Fourties, too, judging from the means of killing or transportation usually featured. You can almost see the scene playing out in Film Noir style. Well, this one not so much, but all the others I know.

Because the something is nothing in the literal sense. He was given nothing to eat.
That's what I thought, though of course you then have to assume that he hadn't eaten anything for several days previously as well.

That's what I thought, though of course you then have to assume that he hadn't eaten anything for several days previously as well.
Maybe she gave him a really big slice of nothing that kept him unfed for days? :p

Greetings Forum-goers!

I've decided that last week's puzzle was far too ambiguous for there to be a 'right' answer. To be honest, every answer was feasable in some sense- the answer I had in mind would have just made you all groan.

Results:

Best Answer: JuNii (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12669601&postcount=66)

Most Imaginative Answer: Terrorist Cakes (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12669344&postcount=45)

Most Reasonned Thinking: Nobel Hobos (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12678095&postcount=97)

By the way, you can now click on the names of the winners to see the posts that brought them to fame!


Today's Puzzle:

One day a woman gave a man something to eat. It caused him to die. It was not poisoned or drugged in any way, and no, he didn't choke on it. (He wasn't allergic to it either)

Why did he die?

Oh, by the way, If more than one person posts the right answer, I will choose the winner at random rather than rewarding the first person to post.

It's not the most challenging of puzzles, but good luck anyway!

I've forgone reading other posts in this thread, so this may be a repeat answer:

It was fatty food and the man had a cholesterol problem; it gave him a heart attack.

Alternatively, he could've been out eating with the woman, with whom he briefly indulges in the cliche lover's fork-swap, resulting in him feeding her some food and vice versa. All through the night he'd go blissfully unaware, until he went to drive the woman, his date, home. Adjusting the rear-view mirror, he notices a large and prominent piece of food stuck in his teeth; having not seen a reaction from his date the entire night, he surmises she hasn't seen it. So he keeps his mouth closed and waits for an opportune time to remove it.

Such a time comes when, on the drive home, the woman falls lightly asleep in the car as the result of a large meal and the accompanying wine. Knowing that she's a light sleeper, having previously spent time with her, he fears that she will awake before he arrives home, and so will not be able to invite her in without chancing her seeing the embarrassing faux-pa he's made. Seeing no other choice, he flips down the driver's side sun shade and uses the small mirror in it to inspect his teeth, trying his best to pluck the food out with his fingers while driving down the highway.

His inattentiveness causes him to lose track of the road and cars around him, and he clips another car in his lane, careens to the left, hits the barrier, and his vehicle is struck by a tractor trailer that was a short distance behind him. He is killed in the impact, but the woman survives, never knowing that what killed her date was the conspicuous piece of food she'd politely kept quiet about the whole night.

She fed him a mace (http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/gallery/d/6855-1/mace.jpg).

She fed him a mace (http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/gallery/d/6855-1/mace.jpg).

Are you sure that's not a hairbrush?

Are you sure that's not a hairbrush?

No. I google mace and that came up.

Greetings Forum-goers!

I've decided that last week's puzzle was far too ambiguous for there to be a 'right' answer. To be honest, every answer was feasable in some sense- the answer I had in mind would have just made you all groan.

Results:

Best Answer: JuNii (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12669601&postcount=66)

Most Imaginative Answer: Terrorist Cakes (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12669344&postcount=45)

Most Reasonned Thinking: Nobel Hobos (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12678095&postcount=97)

By the way, you can now click on the names of the winners to see the posts that brought them to fame!


Today's Puzzle:

One day a woman gave a man something to eat. It caused him to die. It was not poisoned or drugged in any way, and no, he didn't choke on it. (He wasn't allergic to it either)

Why did he die?

Oh, by the way, If more than one person posts the right answer, I will choose the winner at random rather than rewarding the first person to post.

It's not the most challenging of puzzles, but good luck anyway!

So what was the answer to puzzle 3?


and I'm going with the Eve gave Adam the forbidden fruit. that caused them (and him) to be seperated from God by sin. An analogy to 'death'.

Maybe she gave him a really big slice of nothing that kept him unfed for days? :p
Hmmm...maybe you're onto something there...

He was diabetic.

So what was the answer to puzzle 3?

The answer I had was that he was some sort of religious fanatic believing the world should have ended- that sort of thing.

Your answer was better.

Today's Puzzle:

One day a woman gave a man something to eat. It caused him to die. It was not poisoned or drugged in any way, and no, he didn't choke on it. (He wasn't allergic to it either)

Why did he die?

It was a big bowl of ground-up glass, or jagged metal shards. You never said it was edible food after all. Though it could've been straight rat poisen (you can't poisen poisen can you?) How about a full sized Gob-Stopper which he promptly attempted to swallow whole, plugging his thoat and causing him to choke to death.

The thing that she gave the man to eat was the man self.

He ate himself. Or maybe just a part of himself, and consequently he bled to death.

Greetings Forum-goers!

I've decided that last week's puzzle was far too ambiguous for there to be a 'right' answer. To be honest, every answer was feasable in some sense- the answer I had in mind would have just made you all groan.

Results:

Best Answer: JuNii (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12669601&postcount=66)

Most Imaginative Answer: Terrorist Cakes (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12669344&postcount=45)

Most Reasonned Thinking: Nobel Hobos (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12678095&postcount=97)

By the way, you can now click on the names of the winners to see the posts that brought them to fame!


Today's Puzzle:

One day a woman gave a man something to eat. It caused him to die. It was not poisoned or drugged in any way, and no, he didn't choke on it. (He wasn't allergic to it either)

Why did he die?

Oh, by the way, If more than one person posts the right answer, I will choose the winner at random rather than rewarding the first person to post.

It's not the most challenging of puzzles, but good luck anyway!


It was undercooked beef, that gave him e. coli!

I got it. she fed him powdered pigments...

it caused him to DYE!

the word is misspelled in the situation!

One day a woman gave a man something to eat. It caused him to die. It was not poisoned or drugged in any way, and no, he didn't choke on it. (He wasn't allergic to it either)

Why did he die?



The man was blind, so he didn't realize what the woman was feeding him- a piece of chocolate. The man had had a terrible history with chocolate... there was that time on national television where he had coughed up a lump of chocolate on the president, and the time he had been proposing to his girlfriend then gagged on his chocolate, so she said no. As the man began to chew the chocolate, he realized what it was and died of saddness because he suddenly remembered all his terrible memories.

:(

By the way...He WAS fed something edible- sorry to all you with suggestions of eating 'maces' and 'glass'.

The I go with a full sized Gob-Stopper which he promptly attempted to swallow whole, plugging his thoat and causing him to choke to death.

Today's Puzzle:

One day a woman gave a man something to eat. It caused him to die. It was not poisoned or drugged in any way, and no, he didn't choke on it. (He wasn't allergic to it either)

Why did he die?The woman had been having a bad day. She'd just been fired from work. On her way home, she found out her husband had been cheating on her.
She wasn't sure what she was going to do about these things, so she went home, took a leg of lamb from the freezer, put it in the oven, and stewed angrily whilst chain smoking.
Her husband came home and she served him the leg of lamb.
He took one bite and said "Honey, this tastes like shit."
To be fair, she had forgotten to turn the oven on, so he had a point. She didn't see it that way, and promptly beat him to death with the lamb leg.

It got stuck in his appendex. Gave him appendexitis (spl?) from which he died.
Damn vestigal organs.

As in the holocaust, when American soldiers found the camps full of starving jews, they fed them things from their MRE's. Their bodies had lost the ability to process the food given to them and some of them died from it. they found out that they couldnt feed them all that food at once, they needed to be weened onto it. So, the man hadnt eaten a real meal in a long time and was on the brink of death making the food more than his body could handle and he died.

The I go with a full sized Gob-Stopper which he promptly attempted to swallow whole, plugging his thoat and causing him to choke to death.

The question said he didn't choke.

The food was high in cholesterol and he died of heart disease maybe?

Or maybe the woman was Eve and the guy was Adam and the food was the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and god was pissed off so he cast them out of the garden to toil and suffer and eventually die.

Or maybe she sewed his asshole shut and kept feeding him and feeding him like in that Wu Tang song and he died like the fat dude in the movie seven.

It was his own brain. Silence of the Lambs style.

I'm going with the Eve theory.

That, or maybe he was actually in Soviet Russia, where food eats you!


*kills self*

Today's Puzzle:

One day a woman gave a man something to eat. It caused him to die. It was not poisoned or drugged in any way, and no, he didn't choke on it. (He wasn't allergic to it either)

Why did he die?

Possibilities for death that is not by poison, allergies, drugs or choking:

It was an explosive device.
It was a very sharp blade, coated in sugar so that it could be swallowed. When the sugar was digested, the blade was set loose and cut up his insides.
It was full of cholesterol and gave him a heart attack.
It was a tracking device and led his enemies to his location. If he had not eaten it, they would not have been able to find and kill him.
The food was very old and gave him a fatal disease. Or it was the meat of an animal that died from said disease.


This one has plenty of valid answers.

Today's Puzzle:

One day a woman gave a man something to eat. It caused him to die. It was not poisoned or drugged in any way, and no, he didn't choke on it. (He wasn't allergic to it either)

Why did he die?

The smell of the food triggered some memories of his latest beloved girlfriend, as it was her favorite food. She cheated on him with her best friend, and cruelly had sex in front of him. After eating, he went home, opened a cask of the proper wine, and drank himself to death.

Thanks for the prize ... HT linked to the wrong post tho I think. The long bickery one wasn't winful of anything, but the Air Marshall I was kind of proud of.

Here's one I just made up ... it's pretty easy:

A woman opens her handbag and gets out a phone, which is ringing. She does not answer it. When it stops ringing, she dials a number and holds the phone to her ear. "Hello, you don't know me but..." she begins. What are her next words?

He was but a few months old, she was his mother - only fifteen herself - and fed him solids, for arguments sake it was a rich tea biscuit, his underdeveloped digestive system could not cope.

So he died. Sad, when you think about it. A big argument against teenage motherhood.

I'd go with the Eve theory.

This puzzle is way too vague to have any definite answer.

The something was bull testicles. They hadn't been removed from the bull. The guy got trampled and gored to death when he tried to eat them.

Well, first of all, thanks for giving me the most creative response one for puzzle two - I believe I managed to embarass the government enough because we are going to get electric trains by 2013 (two years too late though). Anyways, here is my take on the puzzle

The man and woman boarded an SX train for their daily commuter run from Panmure into the City. Having woken up very late that morning, they had rushed to the station and along the way decided to by some KFC near the station and bought a few chicken drumsticks. They boarded the packed train and had their tickets clipped by the conductor. In spite of the clearly marked no food signs on board the train, the two of them were so hungry that they started eating their chicken drumstick breakfast. They tolerated the ride, in spite of the fact that they were nearly thrown against the doors twice passing near old Tamaki Station.

Pulling into Glen Innes, the train became even more crowded and the woman, left holding the takeaway bag was reduced to feeding the man. She grabbed a drumstick and he started eating it; including a very sharp bone. No need to worry he thought, his stomach was used to digesting nails.

The horn of the DBR in front sounded as the train hurled into Purewa Tunnel and then everything jumped and tossed - including the sharp bone which punctured the stomach of the man. He started bleeding internally and felt horrid - he screamed for help, and rather kindly, a student pushed to emergency stop button which saw the entire set grind to a halt inside the tunnel. The guard came through five minutes later, after sweezing himself through the crowds and found the man still standing, his cold hand clutching the pole - he was dead.

Not only was he dead though; everyone was gasping for a lack of air and people inside started going crazy from the diesel fumes. To make matters worse, the guard and the loco driver had to fill out a ten page sheet on why the emergency stop button was pushed and had to go through a half hour procedure to get the train to start moving again. As the train pulled into Meadowbank Station, the masses on the platform looked eeriely at this corpse; while everyone else was gasping for air. Eventually the police got involved and charged the guard with murder.

The jury found the guard guilty of murder; it did not help that the only thing keeping him warm was an oversized horrible looking jersey - he looked like a murderer. After ten years in prison, and many appeals the truth came out - the man had been killed by a chicken bone and not murdered - the guard got millions in compensation, but he could never work again and so proceeded to be employed in a paper round.

For the passengers on the train, they were late to work, school and university - the students got caned, the workers got sacked and the varsity students failed because they missed a vital Economics 101 exam and travelling on the SX set was never the same, in spite of the fact that another carriage was bought from an Australian Railway Museum to replace it.

Well, he had heart problems, and she gave him a very fatty food, causing him to have a massive heart attack, and die.

Here's one I just made up ... it's pretty easy:

A woman opens her handbag and gets out a phone, which is ringing. She does not answer it. When it stops ringing, she dials a number and holds the phone to her ear. "Hello, you don't know me but..." she begins. What are her next words?
Hello, you don't know me but . . . I'M CALLINGFROMINSIDEYOURHOUSE!
That's sort of two words. Sort of.

Hello, you don't know me but . . . I'M CALLINGFROMINSIDEYOURHOUSE!
That's sort of two words. Sort of.

Any number of words is OK. I'm trying to figure a really good one. This one is also kind of easy:

A man and a woman go for a walk along the beach.
The woman walks on the seaward side (likes getting her feet wet perhaps.)
They hold hands, and don't let go the whole time.
As they are walking back to where they started, the woman is still on the seaward side.
How is that possible?

There are two solutions I can think of ... one sillier than the other.

Any number of words is OK. I'm trying to figure a really good one. This one is also kind of easy:

A man and a woman go for a walk along the beach.
The woman walks on the seaward side (likes getting her feet wet perhaps.)
They hold hands, and don't let go the whole time.
As they are walking back to where they started, the woman is still on the seaward side.
How is that possible?

There are two solutions I can think of ... one sillier than the other.

Either they are walking backwards or the beach is circular.

Either they are walking backwards or the beach is circular.

Yeah. :( Too easy.

To the actual riddle:
He's in prison.
She baked him a cake with a file in it so he can cut his way out.
He didn't realize this, unfortunately, and ate the file with the cake.
It poked a hole in his stomach and he died.

Yeah. :( Too easy.

And I was stoned when I answered your riddle... if it makes you feel any better. ;)

Any number of words is OK. I'm trying to figure a really good one. This one is also kind of easy:

A man and a woman go for a walk along the beach.
The woman walks on the seaward side (likes getting her feet wet perhaps.)
They hold hands, and don't let go the whole time.
As they are walking back to where they started, the woman is still on the seaward side.
How is that possible?

There are two solutions I can think of ... one sillier than the other.

1. She's a hermaphrodite.
2. Changed directions by just turning around and following foot steps.

Any number of words is OK. I'm trying to figure a really good one. This one is also kind of easy:

A man and a woman go for a walk along the beach.
The woman walks on the seaward side (likes getting her feet wet perhaps.)
They hold hands, and don't let go the whole time.
As they are walking back to where they started, the woman is still on the seaward side.
How is that possible?

There are two solutions I can think of ... one sillier than the other.

She has a prosthetic limb, and the couple being newlyweds (and generally clingy people) couldn't stand to not be in physical contact with one another for even a second, and as the woman loved the sea so much, she insisted that she would rather remove her limb than change sides on the way back. Therefore, she took off her prosthetic with the man still holding on to the hand, and they walked back to where they had started, with the man now holding both his wife's hands.

1. She's a hermaphrodite.
2. Changed directions by just turning around and following foot steps.

Correction ... there are four solutions. Two of them MUCH sillier than the others :p

EDIT: Arggh! This is harder than I thought it would be! Prosthetic arms??
For that matter, it didn't say they held hands with each other :confused:

Any number of words is OK. I'm trying to figure a really good one. This one is also kind of easy:

A man and a woman go for a walk along the beach.
The woman walks on the seaward side (likes getting her feet wet perhaps.)
They hold hands, and don't let go the whole time.
As they are walking back to where they started, the woman is still on the seaward side.
How is that possible?

There are two solutions I can think of ... one sillier than the other.

Either they are walking backwards or the beach is circular.
They could be walking along an isthmus too.

And I was stoned when I answered your riddle... if it makes you feel any better. ;)

My clever question was no match for your Higher Thinking. Bah! :mad:

The woman had been having a bad day. She'd just been fired from work. On her way home, she found out her husband had been cheating on her.
She wasn't sure what she was going to do about these things, so she went home, took a leg of lamb from the freezer, put it in the oven, and stewed angrily whilst chain smoking.
Her husband came home and she served him the leg of lamb.
He took one bite and said "Honey, this tastes like shit."
To be fair, she had forgotten to turn the oven on, so he had a point. She didn't see it that way, and promptly beat him to death with the lamb leg.
Dude. For me, you win this thread. I don't know if you've ever heard of Tales of the Unexpected (the TV show), but there's an episode of that (I'm fairly sure it's TotU) that goes something along the lines of this:

Woman beats man to death with frozen leg of lamb.
Obviously, she comes under suspicion when the police start to investigate.
Police go to her house.
Woman cooks a lamb dinner and serves it to the police.
Woman gets off scot-free.

Ergo, you win.

Correction ... there are four solutions. Two of them MUCH sillier than the others :p

EDIT: Arggh! This is harder than I thought it would be! Prosthetic arms??
For that matter, it didn't say they held hands with each other :confused:

Ah, you see..

The hermaphrodite had multiple personalities due to herhis struggle to find a gender role in society, and herhis hands were folded. Thus holding each other's hands.

http://www.farragutchurch.org/assets/images/foldedHands.jpg

Dude. For me, you win this thread. I don't know if you've ever heard of Tales of the Unexpected (the TV show), but there's an episode of that (I'm fairly sure it's TotU) that goes something along the lines of this:

*snip*

ROALD DAHL Lamb to the Slaughter(1953)
Short story, first published in the September 1953 issue of Harper's, about a wife who kills her husband by battering him with a frozen leg of lamb, then later feeds the evidence to the investigating officers.

EDIT: A few posts down, Troglobites links to the actual story. Roald Dahl ftw!

ROALD DAHL Lamb to the Slaughter(1953)
Short story, first published in the September 1953 issue of Harper's, about a wife who kills her husband by battering him with a frozen leg of lamb, then later feeds the evidence to the investigating officers.
There ya go. I've seen it televised, though, so it would've almost certainly been on TotU.

Well the answer's simple, really. The woman gave the man a live human child to eat. In consuming it, he killed it and violated the laws of his state/province. That state/province has recently been swept by a 'think of the children!' craze, and therefore public consciousness for this kind of thing is high, and the outrage is therefore even higher than normal. The public wants blood.

Now this state/province, convieniently enough, still has the Death Penalty. After a high profile First Degree Murder case in which the defendent claimed he didn't do it, but had been framed because he's black, the slick prosecuting attorney was able to score a conviction. The judge dispensed the ultimate penalty, and the man was placed on death row.

After 8 years of appeals and a prison conversion to Islam, he breathed his last breath at the lethal serum paralyzed his lungs and heart.

That, my friend, is how a woman feeding a man something ended in his death.

Lamb to the slaughter (http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html) lady kills husband with leg of lamb, thaws and cooks it, then feeds it to the police officers, so the evidence was destroyed.

My clever question was no match for your Higher Thinking. Bah! :mad:

"Higher" thinking... ;)

It tasted sooo good he just died!
Wow honey, this tastes so good that I could just... GURK!

He could have eaten so much it caused his stomach to burst, causing him to die from his stomach acids digesting himself.

Perhaps it was spiked with acid and killed him in a similar matter as the latter (thats not poison!).

Or maybe he got throat cancer from oral edited for content and died several years later.

Or maybe I'm thinking too much right now.

You know, every halloween they warn parents to cut apart children's newly acquired fruits and veggies to make sure there aren't any razor blades in them. Haitian voodooism is ruled out so I'll go with the razor blades.

Obviously she travelled back in time, kidnapped the man as a baby, took him back to her own time, then forced the man to eat himself, thus stopping himself from ever existing past the age of a child, and also creating a paradox and destroying the universe, killing the man, and also, everyone else.

The man's pacemaker was faltering due to battery failure. With his blood pressure fluctuating wildly, losing consciousness, the man gestured at a fresh battery and gasped out "give me that!"
The woman put a dab of peanut butter on the battery, to make it taste better, and popped it in his mouth. "It" -- the act of giving him something to eat -- killed him. And with his tongue all peanut-buttered-up, he didn't even have the chance to tell the woman one last time what a dumb bitch she was.

The man was fed a hallucinogen or other drug. Believing that he could fly, he promptly jumped off a tall building and proceeded to plummet to his death.

Oooh, the man was sick of getting the same thing for lunch everyday, and vowed to kill himself if his wife gave him that same thing for lunch again. She did, he died.

Oooh, the man was sick of getting the same thing for lunch everyday, and vowed to kill himself if his wife gave him that same thing for lunch again. She did, he died.
Now that's just laziness. He should make his own goddamn lunch.

The man was fed a hallucinogen or other drug. Believing that he could fly, he promptly jumped off a tall building and proceeded to plummet to his death.

But the question says the food was not drugged.

Dude. For me, you win this thread. I don't know if you've ever heard of Tales of the Unexpected (the TV show), but there's an episode of that (I'm fairly sure it's TotU) that goes something along the lines of this:

Woman beats man to death with frozen leg of lamb.
Obviously, she comes under suspicion when the police start to investigate.
Police go to her house.
Woman cooks a lamb dinner and serves it to the police.
Woman gets off scot-free.

Ergo, you win.My mother told me of seeing the story on TV. She said it was The Twilight Zone, but she could've been wrong.

<Weeps tears of joy.> I've never won a thread before.
I'd like to thank the Judges...

But the question says the food was not drugged.

that's right, the food was not drugged nor was it poisioned... but diseased?

he had a mad cow infected burger!

that's right, the food was not drugged nor was it poisioned... but diseased?

he had a mad cow infected burger!

That's what I thought. The food was probably either not properly prepared and hence undercooked, giving way to bacteria-related illness that could trigger death, or the food could have already been contaminated to begin as you said with mad cow, for example, although the question doesn't directly state what kind of food he was fed.

Now that's just laziness. He should make his own goddamn lunch.

you're silly. don't you know that it's the womans job to make the mans lunches?

To the question, she attempted to feed him a live cat and he was blind, deaf, and had no nerves, so he didn't realize that it was a cat. In the process of him trying to eat it, the cat grew inexplicably angry and began to claw him up all over the place, but on account of him having no nerves he didn't feel it and continued to try to eat the cat. This went on for a while until he eventually died from massive blood loss.

But the question says the food was not drugged.

Yes, I know that. The food was not drugged; the food was a drug. You have to employ higher thinking here.

Well, first of all, thanks for giving me the most creative response one for puzzle two - I believe I managed to embarass the government enough because we are going to get electric trains by 2013 (two years too late though). Anyways, here is my take on the puzzle

The man and woman boarded an SX train for their daily commuter run from Panmure into the City. Having woken up very late that morning, they had rushed to the station and along the way decided to by some KFC near the station and bought a few chicken drumsticks. They boarded the packed train and had their tickets clipped by the conductor. In spite of the clearly marked no food signs on board the train, the two of them were so hungry that they started eating their chicken drumstick breakfast. They tolerated the ride, in spite of the fact that they were nearly thrown against the doors twice passing near old Tamaki Station.

Pulling into Glen Innes, the train became even more crowded and the woman, left holding the takeaway bag was reduced to feeding the man. She grabbed a drumstick and he started eating it; including a very sharp bone. No need to worry he thought, his stomach was used to digesting nails.

The horn of the DBR in front sounded as the train hurled into Purewa Tunnel and then everything jumped and tossed - including the sharp bone which punctured the stomach of the man. He started bleeding internally and felt horrid - he screamed for help, and rather kindly, a student pushed to emergency stop button which saw the entire set grind to a halt inside the tunnel. The guard came through five minutes later, after sweezing himself through the crowds and found the man still standing, his cold hand clutching the pole - he was dead.

Not only was he dead though; everyone was gasping for a lack of air and people inside started going crazy from the diesel fumes. To make matters worse, the guard and the loco driver had to fill out a ten page sheet on why the emergency stop button was pushed and had to go through a half hour procedure to get the train to start moving again. As the train pulled into Meadowbank Station, the masses on the platform looked eeriely at this corpse; while everyone else was gasping for air. Eventually the police got involved and charged the guard with murder.

The jury found the guard guilty of murder; it did not help that the only thing keeping him warm was an oversized horrible looking jersey - he looked like a murderer. After ten years in prison, and many appeals the truth came out - the man had been killed by a chicken bone and not murdered - the guard got millions in compensation, but he could never work again and so proceeded to be employed in a paper round.

For the passengers on the train, they were late to work, school and university - the students got caned, the workers got sacked and the varsity students failed because they missed a vital Economics 101 exam and travelling on the SX set was never the same, in spite of the fact that another carriage was bought from an Australian Railway Museum to replace it.

How the hell do you come up with these answers? Just when I think I have the best ones.

Yes, I know that. The food was not drugged; the food was a drug. You have to employ higher thinking here.

But drugs aren't food. And I did employ "higher" thinking. Often the right answer is the simplest one.

But drugs aren't food. And I did employ "higher" thinking. Often the right answer is the simplest one.

What do you mean? Certain psilocybin mushrooms possess psychedelic properties. These specimens have been consumed by many an unwitting person, resulting in an altered mental state. Also, most people generally consider mushrooms to be "food," so your argument is flawed.

What do you mean? Certain psilocybin mushrooms possess psychedelic properties. These specimens have been consumed by many an unwitting person, resulting in an altered mental state. Also, most people generally consider mushrooms to be "food," so your argument is flawed.

But the mushrooms used for food and those for the psychedelically experience are different things entirely. They may come from the same class of fungi but the plant itself is different.

that's right, the food was not drugged nor was it poisioned... but diseased?

he had a mad cow infected burger!

that's why i said e. coli.

It was undercooked beef, that gave him e. coli!

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that's right, the food was not drugged nor was it poisioned... but diseased?

he had a mad cow infected burger!

That's what I thought. The food was probably either not properly prepared and hence undercooked, giving way to bacteria-related illness that could trigger death, or the food could have already been contaminated to begin as you said with mad cow, for example, although the question doesn't directly state what kind of food he was fed.


Beat you there.

How the hell do you come up with these answers? Just when I think I have the best ones.

Ah, that is a secret I cannot divulge

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Beat you there.not my answer anyway... I'm going with Adam and Eve.

and i don't think fully cooking the affected meat removes the Mad Cow Disease... might be wrong on that tho.

Apologies if this has already been posted, but I think she shot him - thus making him eat lead.

I think for once, this smilie is justified: :mp5:

She gave him a live hand grenade. He ate it and it went down nice and smooth... and then he went up.

It tasted so bad that he had to hurl himself in front of a bus to relieve himself of the horror that existed inside his very own mouth.

Ah, that is a secret I cannot divulge

You zen are all alike.

One day a woman gave a man something to eat. It caused him to die. It was not poisoned or drugged in any way, and no, he didn't choke on it. (He wasn't allergic to it either)

Why did he die?

A woman gave a man something to eat and it caused him to die.
Man died : cause => A woman gave him something to eat.

Why did the man die ?
Because a woman gave him something to eat.

Voilà

Greetings Forum-goers!

I've decided that last week's puzzle was far too ambiguous for there to be a 'right' answer. To be honest, every answer was feasable in some sense- the answer I had in mind would have just made you all groan.

Results:

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Today's Puzzle:

One day a woman gave a man something to eat. It caused him to die. It was not poisoned or drugged in any way, and no, he didn't choke on it. (He wasn't allergic to it either)

Why did he die?

Oh, by the way, If more than one person posts the right answer, I will choose the winner at random rather than rewarding the first person to post.

It's not the most challenging of puzzles, but good luck anyway!

Option 1)

The man was a member of fanatic Vrar religion which bans eating carrot and the punishment for this is death. The woman and man have recently met and begun dating so the woman didnt know about this and made a soup which included carrot. The man drank the soup at first and loved it but noticed the carrot later! The man is a devout Vrarian so he shot himself. Hence the food woman gave him caused him to die.

Option 2)

The woman gave the man her genital to be eaten but the woman was AIDS. The man caught it and died.

:p Sorry, deaths are just good for puzzles, that's all.

I'll try to make it more pleasant next week.

You failed.