She considered a few different methods, but rejected all of them. What gives?
Methods to accomplish a task?
Birth control methods?
Method as in a brand name?
Method to learn something?
Is it the English word “method”?
This one.
Not quite sure what the question here is. But the word “method” in the puzzle is used in the ordinary sense of the word.
The question is that it is not a foreign word spelled “method”?
No, it isn’t. The English word used normally.
Is the way ‘what gives’ is phrased significant?
It could very well be.
Is it ‘what gives’ as in what is going on?
Is it ‘what gives’ as in something giving to someone or another thing? Like a loud sound giving a headache.
No and No.
What gives as what is removed (gives way)?
I’m thinking she has a list of criteria but all the methods fail “Costs less than $5” so what gives is the criterium “Costs less than $5” Is that on the right track?
First question - no.
Second question - there was no list, but every method she considered had a problem.
Is she simply “giving up” after having to reject all the methods she considered?
Is the task something she needs or wants to do at work?
At home?
In her social life?
Is she playing a game?
Does it matter what the task is?
5 char
Is she a character in a fictional work we might recognize?
She is a real person.
Does the task have to do with politics? Some kind of craft? Cooking?
Was the thing she was trying to do impossible?
Was she over-complicating something easy?
Is the task impossible?
Is she building a perpetual motion machine?
no to all
no to all
Was the task financial in nature?
Health or fitness related?