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From: osman@sierra.DEC (Eric, Digital, Maynard,  617 493-6664)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: the \"yes-no mystery\" game
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 11:29:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 11 11:29:18 1986
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Yes, please do publish your mysteries!  I've had lots of fun with them
at parties, or during long car rides, or with kids, or combinations of
all of that.

Here are some mysteries I know:

o	A bartender serves two drinks from same liquor bottle.
	One customer suspects poison, and asks partner to drink
	first.  Partner drinks entire drink.  Suspicious customer
	is now satisfied and drinks his and dies !  What happened ?

o	A man is dead on the floor of a room surrounded by fifty-two
	bicycles.  What happened ?

o	Two sailors go into a restaurant.  They both order albatross
	soup.  One takes a single taste and runs outside and throws
	up.  What happened ?  ** hard one **

o	Two dead bodies on the floor of a room, window open, water
	on floor.  What happened ?

o	A man takes elevator down every morning from high-rise
	apartment, but takes elevator only halfway up in evening
	and walks the rest of the way.  Why ?  ** more well known **

o	Three heavy people try to crowd under one umbrella, and
	nobody gets wet.  ** a quickie **

As original contributor mentioned, narrator offers one of the above
stories.  Then participants ask yes-no questions to figure out what
happened.

Perhaps instead of spoiling these, we could play them over the net ?
Maybe the narrator can collect a week's worth of questions and
then publish questions and answers so far in net.puzzle ?  (assumedly
narrator responds DURING the week privately to the questions)

/Eric