Come Have Some Turtle Soup

I'm not talking about a ethnic food or some delicious soup here; I'm talking about a logical reasoning game called turtle soup. But what is turtle soup? Turtle soup, the situation puzzles, is referred to as lateral thinking game. Turtle soup is usually played in a group of people, with one person hosting the puzzle and the others asking yes or no question. The host can only answer yes, no, or not important. The game ends when one of the players narrates the initial scenario which the host has in mind. 

Since the puzzles are inexact, and some of which have more than one possible fitting answers, the players have to narrow the possibility of the answers by asking precise questions. In addition to asking critical questions, the players' imagination is also important because the answers sometimes are beyond belief. I think simply explain the rule of turtle soup is not enough, so I will show some of puzzles below.

📍Triplets

Q: There are triplets in a family. The eldest brother is dead. The youngest brother is very sad. But afterwards the youngest brother is satisfied and glad.

And the question-and-answer segment might go something like this:
1. Question: Is the second eldest brother dead, too? 
    Answer: Yes.
2. Question: Is the eldest brother killed by the second eldest brother?
    Answer: No.
3. Question: Is there some bad experience between the second eldest and the youngest?
    Answer: No.
4. Question: Is the second eldest brother killed by the someone? 
    Answer: Yes.

Eventually the questions lead up the conclusion that after the oldest brother's death, the youngest one is too sad that he kills his second brother and cuts his corpse in half; both of which is stuck to a mirror, so that there seems to be 3 triplets again, which makes the youngest brother satisfied. 

I think this one is very frightening and impressive. So, after you understand more about turtle soup by the example above, maybe you wanna solve more puzzles with your friends. See more puzzles below~

📍2 Dwarfs in a Circus

Q: There are 2 dwarfs in a circus, and the shorter one is a blind. Now because of some financial problems, one of the dwarfs should leave the circus, and the boss decides to fire the higher one. After the decision is made, the shorter dwarf kills himself in his own house, with lots of sawdust around him. Why?


(Please reverse out the answer)

A: After the higher dwarf hearing of the decision, he go to the shorter dwarf's house and saws all of his furniture into a shorter size. Next day, when the shorter dwarf wakes up, he assumes that he grows taller by finding out that all the furniture become shorter, so that kills himself.

📍Passenger

Q: A passenger once travels to a place he's never been and stay in a residents' house for one night. When he entering the house, he's shocked. And on the next day, the passenger sees something which makes him freak out. Why? 

A: The residents' family has a child who is born to lose one of his legs. Worrying about their child may feel insecure and sad about his lost leg, his parent chop one of their legs off before the kid grows up to make the kid believe that all people are born to have only one leg. So, once the passenger walks into the house, he's startled by seeing that this family all have only one leg. Fearing that the child would notice that this passenger has 2 legs, the parent anesthetize the passenger when he's sleeping and cut one of his legs off, too. On the next day, finding out his leg was slashed, the passenger loses his mind.

I hope you guys could have fun in solving these puzzles. If you are very interested in turtle soup, you can google it, and there are many puzzles online. Maybe next time we can play turtle soup together😀😀😀