Riddle (Xtra Credit)

[Hasselhoff]

Ok, so I have a riddle for school for extra credit on my final grade. (2%)

I'll try to remember it as best as possible and all the clues the teacher has given.

If you ask questions, I will ask the teacher and he will give answers (eventually)

A man is on a stranded desert island. He is the only one there. The island is 1 mile long and 100 yards wide. The island only has grasses and shrubs. A fire starts at one end of the island and the wind blows the fire toward the man. The man survives unburned and unhurt. How?

CLUES:

-He did NOT get in water and swim away
-He does NOT have a Boat
-He did NOT "jump' off the island, it is surrounded by cliffs, he would have died from the fall.
-He did not run "around" the fire (Thats why the island is only 100 yards wide, so he can't run around it).
-He was NOT on a hill. (Could be a big hint, I am not sure, means he could have been on a mountain?)


REMEMBER: I DO NOT KNOW THE ANSWER YET! I am also trying to figure it out.

Good Luck!

[kelat]

Maybe the fire didn't ever go near him :O The wind just blew it.

Idk, I couldn't think of anything else

[C-Death]

The wind put it out

[Hasselhoff]

Just by seeing that, that gives me a few ideas also.

It could have been a campfire or something insignificant?

[Innit]

The man waits at an edge of the island 75 or so feet down, and pulls up ALL the scrubs in a 10 meter radius.

There-fore breaking the Triangle of fire, with nothing to burn around him, the man will be safe.

[Captain Planet]

I made a thread using a scammed account on the WoW forums asking people to answer this riddle xD

a guy said

He burns another fire, it burns the shrubs, which can't burn twice.

[Sublimepwns_]

think we are missing some details ive been thinking about it for like 10 minutes
or when the fire started it flagged down a ship or something

[Piersd]

it doesn't say he gets caught on fire... thats why he survives unburnt

[Zoidberg]

Maybe he dug a hole, and hided there. Or maybe the was an underground cave!

[Sublimepwns_]

or he hides in the boat or plane or w.e he got stranded in

[kelat]

Maybe he called G.I. Joe to pick him up on his helicopter and save him from teh fir3!1

[Krip]

Island can't have grass if it's a desert island and therefore the riddle is FAKE!

Or... Theres nothing to make the fire keep going because it's a desert.

idkkkk...

[Errage]

He coulda just been in a really sandy patch.

[isaniac]

Island can't have grass if it's a desert island and therefore the riddle is FAKE!

Or... Theres nothing to make the fire keep going because it's a desert.

idkkkk...

Desert islands just mean tht its unoccupied, some desert islands have trees, bushes ect.

[isaniac]

all i can think of is maybe its an island inside a desert, like an oasis. He was not burnt or injured because he just stepped off the island onto the sand and watched his hopes and dreams burn away in front of his eyes