Two lumps for the eyes, three for the buttons, the carrot for the nose. Then the thaw.
Five lumps of coal, a carrot and a scarf are lying together in the middle of a lawn. Nobody dropped them there and nobody threw them away. Why are they there?
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Think about last week’s weather.
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They’re what’s left of a snowman
Source: Anonymous; no. 6 in Paul Sloane’s top ten lateral thinking puzzles