On another thread (here), I asked if anyone had heard a story that my Dad had once known but had forgotten. I'll ask it again here in case the title jogs someone's memory.

The story is actually a puzzle, the kind my dad called a "logical problem." It's told in the form of a short mystery, and the object is for the listener to guess the point of the story ("How did he die?" "Why did she do that?") by asking questions that can be answered by yes or no.

(For example, the one about the man who lived on the 50th floor of an apartment building; when he came home from work every day, he got off the elevator on the 40th floor and walked up 10 flights. Why? He was a dwarf and couldn't reach higher than the 40th floor button.)

My dad had a notebook full of these problems, usually annotated by just a phrase or two that would jog his memory. But one of those phrases didn't jog his memory--he had forgotten the story completely.
So I'm trying to find out if anybody has heard this particular logical problem.

The phrase is: "The 3 Smells."

Does that ring any bells with anyone?

Aloha,
Mark