Lost in the desert, he’d been pinning paper to cacti to mark his way. When he came back to one he’d already marked, he knew he’d been going round in circles, and he gave up.
A man is found dead in the desert at the foot of a cactus, with a scrap of paper pinned to it. What happened?
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He put the paper there himself.
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He’d been walking in circles
Source: Jed’s list of situation puzzles, No. 1.13, credited to Tobias Oetiker