Over on the Lateral Thinking Puzzles Forum, somebody recently posted a puzzle for which they admitted they didn’t know the solution.
The point of that forum is to answer lateral puzzles. It helps a lot for the puzzle host to know the answer. We’re on a quest for one of us to find the solution to this one, so we can have fun trying to solve the puzzle.
So I’m presenting the puzzle here, in the hopes that somebody knows the solution. Feel free to post the solution here (in a spoiler box, please), or join the forum and take over the puzzle.
Hrmmm…they were visited by the Blair Witch?
Serious guess: The field had been a graveyard, and someone knocked over all the headstones and piled them up…?
Less solid guess: since the kids apparently all ran out into the field at the same time, was it some kind of game field, like football or soccer? And is there some kind of game equipment, made from “stones” (like curling, but other sports might use that term for something else) that was broken up and piled in heaps? Hence the kids’ horror that someone would vandalize their playing field?
I’m guessing the key here is the ‘empty’ bit, I suspect that there was supposed to be something in the field that is no longer there. The stones may or may not have something to do with it.
Perhaps … hang on let me see if I can work spoilers …
Each towns kids were building a massive snowman. They returned in the morning to discover the snowmen melted and only the stones used for the features left ?
I’m thinking these two towns are rivals, and their respective groups of kids squared off against each other in the field and had a rock throwing war. They all happened to be bunched together in 2 groups at the time, threw rocks in mass all at once, then ran home crying because they each got hurt by a rock.
The key has to have something to do with the fact that there are two towns. Otherwise, the riddle would have worked just as well with one town. In other words “There was a town with a field in the middle. On fine Saturday…” You get the idea.
In anycase, I have a feeling that this is the key, but that doesn’t mean I’m anywhere close to having the answer. Moot point, anyway, I guess… I don’t have a clue about how to make spoilers.
Maybe it’s Springfield and Shelbyville.
I’m sure there’s an episode of the Simpsons where the towns are basically seperated by a big field that has a lemon tree on the Springfield side.
I got sucked into the lateral puzzles forum several years ago – I was fortunate to get out. These things suck your brain cells right out of your eyeballs. Distressing to see them moving in on the SDMB.
