
Puzzler Answer, 5/30/98: Cabin Coffin
RAY: Well, anyway. Here it is. Two men are found dead in
a cabin in the woods. There is no evidence of them being
shot, stabbed, strangled, poisoned, burned, drowned, starved
or bored to death from listening to Car Talk. The cabin did
not burn down. A tree did not fall on the cabin. They were
not attacked by animals, and they did not die of natural causes or
old age. That pretty much covered all the bases.
TOM: Pretty much everything.
RAY: Both men had been healthy in their late twenties or
early thirties and were married. And their wives were hundreds of
miles away at the time and alive. The question is how did the
two men die? Now the one -- I said I covered all the bases,
but I didn't. There is one thing that was omitted.
TOM: Well, probably there are lots of things that you omitted.
RAY: Well, when I said they didn't die by starvation or stabbing
or strangulation or poisoning or whatever, but they did die by
accident. Because the cabin they were in crashed. The cabin
was the cabin of a plane. Oh, come on. I love your ringing
endorsements.
TOM: I guess it is all right.
RAY: Well, do we have a winner this week at least?
TOM: Yes, we do have a winner. The winner is Anne Maddox
from Kingston Springs, Tennessee.
RAY: Yeah, big deal.
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