A conundrum is “a riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun” just in case you’ve been kept in the dark and hidden from the definition of ‘conundrum’. Now that you know what one is, let’s see if you can actually solve a conundrum...
Mr Dudman has been found dead. It’s up to you to solve the mystery, for the detectives don’t like dealing with the Dudman family (possibly they have issues with the surname Dudman.) The death occurred in a chapel, a completely empty chapel, devoid of all things... including seats (for the people of Upright Town tend to stand during mass.) Mr Dudman is a vicar and the only person who has access to the chapel key. The inner roof and the walls are completely smooth - to climb the wall you would need a rope or climbing gear, nether of which where in the possession of Mr Dudman at the time of the incident. All that is in the chapel is a single light, dangling from the utmost highest point of the ceiling (which is very high indeed.) Below the light is Mr Dudman... who, just to remind you all, is dead. He is lying in a large puddle of water. His legs and arms are broken and his face is badly distorted. There is no doubt what so ever that he is dead.
The question is: how did Mr Dudman die?
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I ran a scan on his adrenalin levels, which were all normal, indicating that there was no conflict before the death. The broken bones are consistent with a fall from a height, and together with the puddle of water proves conclusively that he must have been sitting on his gigantic ice throne when he slipped off it, breaking his bones and injuring himself.
The magestic ice throne melted to leave the puddle. If this is wrong, then clearly he wasn't God's favourite Vicar, and God was feeling a bit Old Testament. Or he was in fact a secretly Satanic vicar, and the water is of course holy water, which causes all evil beings to break their bones and die.
Well done, Dr Diagnosis. That's pretty much what happened. But why was he sitting on an ice throne? And are you sure he merely slipped? Perhaps something caused him to fall...
Naturally, as the Ice King, it logically follows that he would have a magnificent throne of ice from which to rule.
But one day he noticed the light was broken. So of course he stood up (rather foolishly, as we can now see) to replace the 50 watt light globe. He lost his footing, and fell...
Mr Dudman certainly was changing the light globe, but he wasn't on an ice throne exactly... I'll leave it to you, Dr Diagnosis, to figure out the purpose of the ice and the cause of him loosing his footing.
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