He was blind and walked the cliff path every day, keeping his distance from the edge by the sound of a bell buoy out at sea. The buoy’s mooring rope broke, it drifted, and he followed the sound off the edge.
A rope breaks. A bell rings. A man dies. What happened?
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He found his way by sound.
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A blind man followed a drifting bell buoy off a cliff
Source: Jed’s list of situation puzzles, No. 1.75, credited to Karl Heuer