Riddle (I dont have the answer)

[Wolfwood]

Ok, another classic:

A man arrives to a meadow, wearing a backpack and dies. What was in the backpack?

 

[Taliesin]

A parachute. Or, possibly, delicious granola bars that attracted two hungry grizzly bears.

 

[Margim]

When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids

What is greater than God,
More evil than the devil,
The poor have it,
The rich need it,
And if you eat it, you'll die?​

Aside from nothing, Giant Radioactive Monkeys could be an interesting alternative...

 

[Narz]

A parachute. Or, possibly, delicious granola bars that attracted two hungry grizzly bears.

heh heh, good answer.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

A man arrives to a meadow, wearing a backpack and dies. What was in the backpack?

I was thinking maybe a time bomb.

Or he could have died of exhaustion because he was lost and wandered through the forest until he reached the meadow where he could go no longer - and the bag had usual hiking stuff.

Or a bag of fade (couldn't translate "diluat" properly) acid that melts through the layers of fibers in a decent amount of time but not enough to save his life - which gave the man enough time to get to the meadow and die a horibble death.

OR that man is actualy a robot and the backpack he is wearing was his battery which was discharged some time while arriving on the meadow - so the "man" colapsed and apparently died .

OR he had in his backpack some uranium and because of a fissure in the lead case protecting it radiation leaked tward the man thus causing his death.

Is either of these answers right

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Is either of these answers right

Yes, all of them are "right", and that's the problem with lateral thinking puzzles (aka riddles). They have too many answers and the one given in the back of the book is only correct by fiat.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

When i asked a friend of mine he said that the man was carrying his mother-in-law and died of exhaustion . I must say, i would have never thought of it

Now that i think of it he could have also died from exhaustion because he was carrying his mother-in-law's choped body parts while running away from the police