All human, including Norman.
No word-play, either!
Did the incident incident involve:
- aircraft?
- road vehicles?
- ships/ boats?
- trains?
- buildings?
Were the people endangered by:
- fire?
- flood?
- impact damage?
- fire?
- disease?
- poison?
- radioactivity?
- war?
- starvation?
Was the danger caused by:
- human error?
- deliberate human action, such as terrorism?
- faulty equipment?
- force of nature?
Is “Norman” Kenny Bellau (Hurricane Katrina)?
I answered directly each category. Everything else is “NO”
NO
Note: my puzzle is quickly googleable. Let’s avoid google!
Did Norman save these lives all in one go or over some time?
Was it once incident or a sort of category of incidents (like the sinking of the Titanic vs shipwrecks in general)?
Did he save them all directly himself or was it something he came up with that others could repeat/use?
If we don’t use Google, solutions are practically impossible. Whoever heard of “Sweet Kiss,” for example?
FTR, I didn’t find this easy to find, at all. In fact, couldn’t find.
Did this involve the “Indianapolis” and sharks?
**What? We didn’t need to know “Sweet Kiss” to solve his puzzle. We needed to figure out the situation, not the exact details. In this puzzle, I am not asking for the details of the situation including names, dates, and etc. I am asking for you to figure out what happened.
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**I would add that you should read the first post, which specifically said “no googling” in it.
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NO
“What? We didn’t need to know “Sweet Kiss” to solve his puzzle.”
A major clue was that the horse was given a “mean nickname.” Thus, I would posit that the original name was significant.
But carry on.
Did this involve a ferry? Cruise ship? Military vessel?
Was more than one ship involved?
Not playing post:
The entire point of a lateral thinking puzzle is to figure things out without any outside knowledge. You just ask yes or no questions until you figure out the premise. They’re an exercise for the brain and thinking outside the box.
I wouldn’t say that clue was important at all. The big clue was Biotop saying they were unsure how close the jockey came to falling off the horse. The next logical question is something like “Was there something wrong with the jockey?” (as jockeys do not normally fall off horses), which would quickly lead to figuring out he was dead. And that would have solved the puzzle.
Yeah, I know. I don’t play a lot. But I do follow along, and jump in occasionally when I think of something interesting. I’m just really bad at getting obsessed with these types of games, and I keep odd hours so, by the time I come back to see my question answered, the puzzle is often figured out.
Anyways, I thought I could help clear things up a bit. Apologies if I’m being annoying. I promise I’ll go back to watching and occasionally chiming in.
Did Norman’s solution have something to do with navigating?
Was the “force of nature” a tidal wave?
A storm?
A collision?
Did this incident occur before 2000?
Before 1950?
Before 1900?
Military ship
One ship that is mainly involved.
Assuming no one is Googling it, I’ll give the year: 1889
Did Norman navigate the ship under limited sight conditions?
If so, did he improvise some sort of means that didn’t rely on sight?
Did he repurpose an object?
Did his quick thinking lead to an invention of some kind later?
Was a lighthouse involved?
Was some other sort of signal involved?
Was Norman aboard the ship?
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Was the ship itself saved?
Was everyone on the ship saved?
Did he use something as lifeboats/rafts?
Did he use something to keep the ship afloat?
Did this take place in the US?
Europe?
Asia?
Africa?
Australia?
South America?
Elsewhere in N America?
Oceania, closest continent would be Australia