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This is a bastardized version of a game called Danetki (in Russian) whereby one person tells the end of the story and other players must guess what the whole st
by huhtenberg 10y ago
This is a bastardized version of a game called Danetki (in Russian) whereby one person tells the end of the story and other players must guess what the whole story was by asking Yes/No questions.
E.g. - In the middle of an undisturbed snowfield lies a man. Next to him lies a piece of cloth. What happened?
E.g. - A man wakes up in the morning, gets up from bed, looks in the mirror and then throws himself out of the window, killing himself. Again, what happened?
This sort of thing. An excellent way to pass some time on long train rides. But after a while everyone runs out of stories, so someone inevitably turns to this trolling variation and that's how the evening ends.
- M_Grey 10y agoWe call them "Minute Mysteries" where I grew up in the US... I'd guess it was brought over from Russian immigrants. I remember the ones you mentioned, along with one about someone hanging themselves on an ice brick, another about someone drawing a short straw on a hot air balloon, and I think one about a runner in baseball coming in to home.
- jobigoud 10y ago> someone hanging themselves on an ice brick Spoilers! The riddle is that someone is found hung on top of a water puddle and no chair.