A woman wore a pair of red high heels to work and died. Why?

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On the Mid-Autumn Festival, let's play a suitable game together.

In the 57th episode of Wulin Biography, Li Dazui pretends to be crazy, and Yan Xiaoliu tests him with the title 16. Everyone doesn't know that these questions are contradictory, and the more correct the answer, the more abnormal it is. They painstakingly set the answers and created a hilarious farce.

The question and answer in the play is extremely scary, which may have left a childhood shadow for many people. Like the one about "aquatic plants":

Xiaoming and his girlfriend go for a walk by the river. Suddenly, his girlfriend fell into the river. Xiaoming jumped into the water to save people, but failed to find his girlfriend and left sadly. A few years later, Xiao Ming revisited his old place. Two old men were chatting by the river and said, "When the water is clear, there will be no fish. If there are no aquatic plants in this river, there will be no fish. " Xiao Ming drowned himself when he heard this. Why?

At first glance, this topic is puzzling and illogical, but the answer is wide open, scary, shocking and speechless:

There are many similar problems of "finding reasons for bizarre events", which actually belong to a popular game in Europe, America and Japan, commonly known as "turtle soup"

What the hell is turtle soup?

According to legend, a veteran burst into tears after drinking a bowl of turtle soup in a restaurant. When someone asks, he only answers yes or no. Everyone guessed the truth according to scattered information: the soldier went to the battlefield with his father and ran out of ammunition. After his father committed suicide, he asked his partner to share himself with his son and lied to him that it was turtle soup. The soldiers survived, and now they are drinking real turtle soup, and they find that it tastes different from what they remember. They know everything, and they are very sad.

This touching "turtle soup" story hides the game mode of "giving an incomprehensible event to make people guess the reason", and some people say it is the origin of this kind of game. But in Europe and America, the game is called "horizontal thinking puzzle" (horizontal thinking problem) or "situational puzzle" (situational problem), not "turtle soup".

Until this game was introduced to Japan, it was very popular on the website of 2ch (Japan's Large Internet Forum). According to these materials, Kamei Sufu published a problem set "Reasoning クィズガメのスープ" (translator's note.

Lateral thinking is a term coined by Edgar de Bono, which refers to a way of thinking that seeks new ways to study problems instead of following logical steps.

"Turtle soup" game relies on providing refined information, creating unexpected results and leading to confusion. Players need to imagine and reason according to the limited hints in the topic, and make a complete and reasonable supplement to the event, that is, "lateral thinking." For example, "a woman wore a pair of red high heels to work and died." Why? " The words "red", "high heels" and "going to work" in the title can lead us to guess the woman's occupation, but what is fatal is the color or height of the shoes.

In practice, the title of "turtle soup" is "noodle soup" and the answer is "soup bottom". The answer can put forward all kinds of conjectures, and the questioner only answers "yes", "no" or "irrelevant" to get information and get close to the true nature of the event.

The information of noodle soup can be increased or decreased according to the situation, and the same noodle soup can correspond to different soup bases. Just like the story of "Turtle Soup" itself has multiple versions, the protagonist can be father, girlfriend and wife, and the soup can be turtle, penguin and so on, depending on how the questioner imagines and answers. The questioner is abbreviating the story, and the respondent is expanding the story, as long as it is reasonable. This is the fun of playing turtle soup.

Come on, dry this bowl of turtle soup.

The topic of "turtle soup", usually related to strange murders or sudden deaths, is the most popular. People's detective ability and reasoning experience have played a role, and the resulting sense of terror has become an indispensable part of this game. Let's take a look at several classic "turtle soup" topics and experience the excitement and brain burning of this game.

Please skip to the next section if you are timid.

The first soup:

Noodles in soup: A group of friends helped a blind man with only one arm celebrate his birthday. After singing the birthday song, everyone applauded, but the blind man killed all his friends. Why?

The key words in the soup are "blind man", "one arm" and "applause", which shows that for a blind man, his friend should not applaud or has no ability to applaud, because he can't see, so he was cheated, which is his motive for killing people. Imagine that he has been deceived by applause.

Launch the soup base: they were once in trouble. In the absence of food, everyone agreed to cut off their hands and eat together, but because the blind man couldn't see, he was the only one to cut them off. When he heard applause, he knew that he had been cheated.

The second soup:

Noodles in soup: Two good friends were trapped in a cave in an avalanche. They have enough food and pistols. A few days later, rescuers came to the cave and found that both of them were dead. There was no sign of a struggle. There are several bullet holes in a person, and there is only one bullet hole in a person, and there is a pit next to it. How did they die?

The key words in the soup are "good friend", "full meal", "no trace" and "pit" There is no motive for killing, and there are no signs of fighting, which means that the person who died first was killed by mistake or when both of them were unconscious. Imagine how the two sides are unconscious, what is the function of the pit, and the strange number of bullet holes.

Push out the soup base: one of them is sleepwalking. He shot and killed his friend in his dream. After waking up, he dug a hole and buried his friend without knowing what happened. The next day, he dug up his sleepwalking friend, photographed the body again, and was surprised when he woke up, so he buried his friend again. After several days of repetition, he finally couldn't stand it, had a nervous breakdown and chose to commit suicide.

The third soup:

Noodles in soup: The female star has a daughter, and she will put a hat on her daughter from time to time. One day, she took her daughter to the hospital. When she knew the truth, she committed suicide. Why?

The key words in the soup are "female star", "hat" and "hospital". Hat somersaults are related to the face. Imagine what hospital this is, the identity characteristics of female stars, and the role of hats.

The bottom of the soup is introduced: the female star is disfigured. She raised her daughter and transplanted her face to herself. This hat is her own. Wearing a hat for your daughter from time to time can measure her head size, and once it is suitable, it can be transplanted.

Jin Shengtan commented on The Water Margin, saying that the aesthetic principle of the plot design of the novel is "no danger is fast, but extreme danger is fast". This sentence is also suitable to describe this kind of "turtle soup" game, which has elements of "reasoning" and "terror" and arouses players' curiosity about the incomplete truth.

The process of guessing the result is accompanied by the detective's sense of accomplishment and the pleasure of satisfying curiosity, and fear is the price that players have to pay.

The soup is delicious, don't drink too much.

Just like watching detective mystery novels and film and television works, people who play this kind of "turtle soup" can't help playing another one, and at the same time sigh "how so abnormal" What they can't stop is the tension caused by terror.

Based on agatha christie's classic work no one lives, the English drama poster contains a horrible "killing nursery rhyme".

Experiments by researchers such as Meng, a professor of psychology in Peking University, show that children's emotions will flow between interest and fear under the stimulation of novelty, and when they approach noisy robots, they will produce an emotional reaction of alternating interest and fear, namely fear and love. Fear is a highly intense and positive impulse pattern.

Therefore, terror not only creates creepy physiological and psychological reactions, but also adds shock and fury to the sweet and boring life, making people get some pleasure. From the Colosseum in ancient Rome to the Spanish bullfighting, from blindfolded hide-and-seek in childhood to extreme sports bungee jumping, human beings have a complex nature of teasing, playing with and even deliberately pursuing terror, just as someone once asked the American horror novelist Stephen King, "Why do you write horror novels?" His answer is: "I want to scare the readers."

A scene in the movie The Shining is adapted from Stephen King's novel of the same name.

In addition to the nature of seeking excitement in terror, terror is also one of our childhood memories. Freud's psychoanalytic theory holds that mystery and terror originate from something familiar but repressed.

Most people have been exposed to mysterious and horrible culture in their childhood, even historical. Ghost Story Machamp is distracted, but as early as in Search of Ji Shen, ghost stories with horrible and grotesque flavor have become a marginal and permanent topic. As we all know, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is a fascinating story, while the note novel Zi Wuyu and other folk stories have more stories aimed at scaring people. They are passed down from generation to generation, absorbed by film and television works and printed in children's minds.

With the growth of age and experience, people's rational thinking becomes stronger and stronger, and they begin to doubt the rationality of these events and suppress the sense of terror, but they will not really get rid of it. When playing "turtle soup", the strange topic makes the horrible childhood memories reappear.

This is why "turtle soup" is scary but attractive, and the more you think about it, the scarier it becomes. Of course, drinking too much horrible "turtle soup" will definitely have side effects, which are manifested in the fear of going to the toilet at night, being suspicious when taking the elevator alone, and trying to cover the quilt when sleeping. Do what you can, and don't ask me how I know.

Soup tastes good, don't be greedy, three bowls are not enough.

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[2] Li Xinming. Analysis of aesthetic elements in horror novels [J]. Creation and Criticism, 20 17, (No.8).

Egg time: three bowls of turtle soup

The following three "turtle soup" are based on famous stories and novels, and the hints in brackets are the source.

1, a woman became beautiful after a sleep and got rich and powerful parents. What's going on here? (Hint: Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio) 2. Two people got a pig's head, but it stinks all the time. Finally, they were very angry. Why? (hint: scholar) 3. An old man who knows martial arts has a concubine. His concubine said that he would sleepwalk and sent her away. Why? (Hint: Jin Yong's novels)

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