53 bicycles: A lateral thinking puzzle

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  1. Does the uniform have anything to do with the answer?
  2. Does the island have anything to with the answer?
  3. Does the man have some kind of nerve condition that prevents him from feeling pain?
  4. Is he paralyzed or suffering some condition that prevents him from moving?
  5. Has the cig been altered in some way?
  6. Does the letter have some kind of substance coated on it?
642
  1. Yes.
  2. Yes.
  3. Yes.
  4. No.
  5. No.
  6. No.
643

Is he crying due to the cigarette burning his hand?
Is he crying due to something he read in the letter?
Is his crying due to negative emotions?
Is his crying due to positive emotions?
Is his crying due to emotions which cannot be easily categorized as negative or positive?
Is his crying due to some non-emotional cause (such as cigarette smoke getting in his eyes)?

Is his nerve condition leprosy?
Is the beach at or in close proximity to a leper colony?
Is his uniform military?
Is his uniform for a government-run organization?

644
  1. Is the letter in an envelope?
  2. Is the letter in a bottle?
  3. Has he read this letter before?
645
  1. No.
  2. Yes.
  3. Yes.
  4. No.
  5. No.
  6. No.
  7. Yes.
  8. Yes.
  9. No.
  10. No, I don’t think so.
  1. It was.
  2. No.
  3. No.
646

So we have a dude in uniform who has leprosy, who is at a leper colony, reading a letter and crying.

  1. Uniform of a leper at the colony?
  2. Uniform of a guard at the colony?
  3. Letter tells him he must remain at colony?
647
  1. No.
  2. Yes(attendant, actually).
  3. Yes.
648

Is there more to it than that?

649

I guess it’s solved.

Leprosy attendant receives a letter that he now has leprosy.

Next!

650

It’s interesting how many of the puzzles presented on this thread rely on increasingly-outdated cultural knowledge. Leper colonies, newspaper headlines, trains in tunnels, etc.

I’m not advocating that future puzzles should be emoji-focused or anything, but … it’s interesting.

651

Beulah died in the Appalachians, while Craig died at sea. Everyone was much happier with Craig’s death. Whyizdat?

652

Craig was kind of a dick.

653

No.

654

  1. Is the location of their deaths what makes people happier with Craig’s?

  2. Did both die of natural causes?

  3. Were either murdered?

655

Just FYI I’m gonna stick with my original theory. Seriously, fuck Craig.

That said, I’ll play along :).

  1. Are they both human?
  2. Did the same people know them both?
656

I’m gonna guess.

They were hurricanes?

657

Ooh. If that’s not right, it should be.

658

I’m going to upvote that being right.

659

They were flying a two-person aircraft which got into difficulty and they had to bail out with parachutes. Craig landed in the sea, where he was stung by a jellyfish, nibbled at by sharks and finally eaten by a giant sea monster, while Beulah landed amid some moonshiners in the Cahulawassee River valley.

660
  1. Yes
  2. Yes
  3. No