These puzzles are all the same

There's about a million equally valid solutions, but somehow you're supposed to alight upon the "right" one.

Posted By: yarmyyarmy on February 10th 2010 at 16:28:13

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Playtime. A man wakes up, takes a phonecall, and gets on a plane with a box (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 15:45:21
- You are Dan Brown and I claim my ?5 (n/m) (General Chat) - Vivid Data Shark, Feb 10, 20:44:48
- ventriliquists dummy (fuck knows how you spell it) (n/m) (General Chat) - selwyn, Feb 10, 16:49:40
  - or any other word (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Feb 10, 16:59:04
- Clue- There's an arm in the box (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:42:35
  - did anyone come to any 'arm (General Chat) - camcan, Feb 10, 17:03:16
  - Funeral blokey transporting a corpse. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 10, 16:43:55
    - No (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:44:35
      - Yes it is. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 10, 16:46:57
        
        Is he going to settle a debt with the arm (n/m) (General Chat) - BSE Canary, Feb 10, 16:50:14
        
        i think this thread has died a death (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:48:57
        
        End it then (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Feb 10, 16:52:03
        
        2 blokes stranded on a desert island, one cuts his arm off for food, the other promises to (General Chat) - BSE Canary, Feb 10, 16:56:24
        
        Pretty much. There's a plane crash, 5 survive, after a few days without food they decide (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 17:10:45
        
        It's not his arm though, he got it from the morgue and is getting someone else to take it (General Chat) - BSE Canary, Feb 10, 17:12:37
        
        Yeah but where were the survivors buried? (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 17:17:55
        
        Yes, come on, I'm off to the gym at seventeen hundred zulu - I'd like to know the answer b (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 10, 16:54:02
- Is it a lattice plane like off of cristal structures? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:39:07
- Is it an acer pseudoplatanus or Plane tree off of nature? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:38:04
- Is it a Plane of immanence? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:37:15
- Is it the river Plane in Chermany? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:36:48
- Is it a shut the box, the popular pub game, box? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:35:30
- Is he a pizza delivery guy? (n/m) (General Chat) - Drew Peacock, Feb 10, 16:33:02
  - No (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:35:19
- black magic? (n/m) (General Chat) - selwyn, Feb 10, 16:32:04
  - No (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:35:40
- Is it a box as in molecular biology a repeating sequence of nucleotides that forms a trans (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:30:49
- Is it the Boston Options Exchange? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:29:57
- Is it the Conway box function off of Mathematics? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:28:39
- Is it a cricket box? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:27:30
  - I'm off for a fag, you're in charge of answers until I return (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:28:09
- Is it Box in Gloucestershire? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:24:03
- Don't all planes have boxes? Black or otherwise. (General Chat) - camcan, Feb 10, 16:23:18
  - These puzzles are all the same (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Feb 10, 16:28:13
  - It seems to be something to do with heads or other organs (General Chat) - Huge Small, Feb 10, 16:26:59
- It's Mick Box isn't it? Mick Box out of off of Uriah Heep. (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:23:18
- Is the box for Helena? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:21:14
  - mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm sherilyn fenn (n/m) (General Chat) - jayson blair, Feb 10, 16:34:17
- Is it Joe Box off of the Jo Boxers? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:20:41
- What did the man have for lunch? (n/m) (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Feb 10, 16:20:32
  - Clue - Lunch is part of what's happening (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:25:17
- Does the box contain a parachute? (n/m) (General Chat) - Dog, Feb 10, 16:20:06
  - No (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:25:42
- Is he in the box? (n/m) (General Chat) - Drew Peacock, Feb 10, 16:19:27
- I only take things up the shitbox (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Feb 10, 16:19:02
  - wrong msg board (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:21:53
    - You got a link to wrong msg board? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Feb 10, 16:23:20
- He's a returning office and it's a ballot box. (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:18:44
- Is it his lunch box? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:18:26
- Did Pandora call him and say "Bring my box but for fucks sake don't open it." (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:17:43
- Is he delivering vital organs or blood or suffen? (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Feb 10, 16:17:22
  - No but getting a bit closer (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:21:38
- Phone box! It's a phone box isn't it? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:17:00
  - jafski's banned from asking further question. Any appeals may or may not have further (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:21:06
- How about a police box like off of Dr Who? Is it one of them? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:16:45
- Is it a set top box? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:16:13
- Or a Jewellery box, is it a jewellery box? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:15:57
- WHat about a fusebox, is it one of them? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:15:13
- Is it a toolbox? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:14:46
  - It's a normal cardboard box (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:16:02
    - ah - Is his mum moving from Wisconsin to Idaho and has run out of boxes and needs one to (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Feb 10, 16:18:45
- Does the plane leave the airport whilst the man has the box? (n/m) (General Chat) - Dog, Feb 10, 16:13:55
  - yes (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:15:43
  - *and whilst he's on the plane (n/m) (General Chat) - Dog, Feb 10, 16:14:17
- Is it a shit box? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:12:43
- Was the phone call from the box office? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:11:40
- Is it Box in Wiltshire? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:10:40
  - He's done the off. Question overload (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Feb 10, 16:11:22
- Is there anything in the box? (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 10, 16:10:13
  - Yes (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:11:31
    - Is it Schr?dinger's cat? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:13:51
- Is it a fuzzbox and is he going to use it? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:08:09
  - What's a fuzzbox? (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:12:46
    - ^^^^^^THIS! is not a yes or no answer. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Feb 10, 16:15:03
- Is it a dirtbox? (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Feb 10, 16:07:10
  - He's not answering this or my spare fanny one. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Feb 10, 16:19:29
- Is it a box privet hedge? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:06:34
- Does the box contain snakes? (n/m) (General Chat) - Dog, Feb 10, 16:06:07
  - No (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:12:22
  - MOTHERFUCKING snakes on a MOTHERFUCKING plane. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 10, 16:07:33
- Is it a pelunty box? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:05:27
- was the phone call in connection with the mans employment? (n/m) (General Chat) - megson, Feb 10, 16:04:04
  - No (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:11:14
- Has the box got a spare fanny for the Queen in it? (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Feb 10, 16:04:01
- Is it an aeroplane or a woodworking plane or an astral plane? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:01:44
  - Or a hyperbolic one (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Feb 10, 16:03:37
    - My bolics are a bit hoiper today. Top quality lunchtime clumpage. (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:04:23
- Is he the milk tray man? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:00:46
- Is he Noel Edmonds? (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Feb 10, 16:00:26
- Is his mum moving from Wisconsin to Idaho and has run out of boxes and needs one to put a (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Feb 10, 15:59:02
- Is it Robbie Box off of Big Deal from the the 1980's? (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 15:59:01
  - it's good but it's not right (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 15:59:52
- Aren't these puzzles inherently daft and a waste of everybody's time? (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Feb 10, 15:58:09
  - Yes (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 15:59:32
- is the plane military or commercial? (n/m) (General Chat) - megson, Feb 10, 15:57:54
  - Not military (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 15:59:11
    - ^^^^^^THIS! is not a yes or no answer. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Feb 10, 16:00:28
      - Adapted the rules wroth style (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:01:52
        
        ^^^starting to wish he hadn't bothered asking the question (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Feb 10, 16:04:42
    - Is it his own private plane? (n/m) (General Chat) - megson, Feb 10, 15:59:45
- is he called mohammed? (n/m) (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Feb 10, 15:57:09
  - No (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 15:58:35
- Is it a big box? (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Feb 10, 15:57:02
  - Define big (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 15:58:02
    - Is it bigger than your head? (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Feb 10, 15:58:54
      - A little bigger (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:00:17
        
        ^^^^^^THIS! is not a yes or no answer. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Feb 10, 16:02:11
        
        Cheating. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 10, 16:09:21
    - large enough to fit a human head in (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 10, 15:58:29
      - Yes and you're on the right track (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:01:06
        
        good (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 10, 16:12:06
  - Huge large! (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 10, 15:57:37
- is it a sandwich box, is he the pilot? (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Feb 10, 15:56:13
  - No (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 15:57:48
- has someone's head fallen off? (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 10, 15:53:08
  - No (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 15:57:31
- Is he the black box installation technician from black boxes r us? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 15:48:48
  - Yes (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 15:49:38
- Has the box got a piece of a shrew in it? (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Feb 10, 15:48:27
  - No (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 15:48:52
    - How do you know? (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Feb 10, 15:50:22
      - Yes or no answers only (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 15:52:38
- Is the man delivering the box somewhere? (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 10, 15:47:15
  - Yes (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 15:49:02
    - There you go then. He's a box delivery man. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 10, 15:51:07
      - No (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 15:52:18
        
        Yes he is. You just said he is. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 10, 15:54:27
        
        is a man who lends his neighbour a pint of milk a milkman? (n/m) (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Feb 10, 16:02:44
        
        You can't answer a question with a question, it isn't right. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 10, 16:08:11
        
        He might well be. (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Feb 10, 16:05:10
- why? (n/m) (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Feb 10, 15:46:39

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