Lateral Thinking Puzzles

49. Why Did I Die?

A circus clown was famous for being the shortest clown in the world. His career depended entirely on his height. He was young, wealthy and healthy, except for the need to use a cane to walk. One morning, he was found dead in his trailer. The police noticed sawdust on the floor and concluded that he had been murdered. Why?

Submitted by sakura · Added 10 November 2009

Solution: He was a tiny circus clown. His fame depended on being tiny. Someone secretly shortened his cane/props. He thought he was growing taller. He believed his career was over. He died by suicide. The sawdust revealed the sabotage.

Comments (12)

prashant 12 December 2007

There was this clown. He saw the dust and die. Why did he die?
"this" shows that clown is alive, n that was a script.

skintc 30 June 2008

He could see a dust storm coming, but cos he's a clown everyone thought he was joking. So they all died.

smartgirl23 2 July 2008

Was the dust sawdust? If so, did he die because he killed him self as someone was cutting sawdust from his cane or such and he died because he thought that he was growing taller? :|

alexonfyre 22 December 2008

Even if it isn't correct (though I think it should be) I like skintc's answer the best =)

Anyway, here is my ridiculous answer (though this riddle is lateral thinking, not logic)

Midget clowns are perfect for shooting out of cannons, so he was the cannon clown, however one day the cannon missed its target (the safety net) and he saw the dust on the circus tent floor (which is generally a dirt floor or covered in sawdust for a variety of reasons) before he landed and died.

awsumelefants 10 June 2011

Alright lemme give this a shot. He was a midget clown and needed to use a cane to walk because he was so short. The cane was made out of wood and termites were eating his cane, producing saw dust. His cane was shrinking and he thought it was because he was getting taller, so he killed himself, thinking that the circus wouldn't need him if he was no longer a midget.

Akoito 29 January 2013

Ok I'll share my funny answer. What he saw was the dust from Spiderman character, the convict guy who escaped and mutated to a dust man! hehehe, so maybe that's what the clown saw.

ankitrawat10797@ymail.com 10 May 2013

the clown was shot from the cannon and he fell on the ground everybody thought he was dead (which he was not) so they went to bury him and he saw the soil (reffered to as dust) and died after he was burried

letmein3 4 June 2013

If you are asking this question, you didn't.

rohanjha 18 October 2013

I dyed because I wanted to color my hair.

lauramay 28 December 2013

He died because he was allergic to the dust.

vivek61508 16 September 2014

The man saw the dust coming and wanted to save other people from his village, so when he told them about dust no one was believing as he was clown so to make them believe he did suicide.

dante 19 December 2014

he was a clown midget pyramid excavator and he just found a tomb that has been sealed for centuries he opened the seal and saw ancient volatile dust burst from the tomb.... and died

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