Thread: Lateral thinking puzzles - any ideas anyone ?

someone just sent me these - i know the first one but none ofthe others

1. A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.

2. A man and his wife raced through the streets. They stopped, and the husband got out of the car. When he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a stranger in the car.

3. A body is discovered in a park in Chicago in the middle of summer. It has a fractured skull and many other broken bones, but the cause of death was hypothermia.

4. A woman has incontrovertible proof in court that her husband was murdered by her sister. The judge declares, "This is the strangest case I've ever seen. Though it's a cut-and-dried case, this woman cannot be punished."

So what's the question?

I think the question is 'Why' these are pretty open ended though...

number two could be anything... the stranger killed her... the car crashed 'stopped' and he got out to phone an ambulance and when he got back the paramedic 'stranger' had failed to save her. All sorts. Doesn't say if she even left the car.... maybe the car got jacked by a stranger who shot her/hit her with a hard object... who knows :P

Originally Posted by BIG H

So what's the question?

Ha ha! Thats eaxtly what i was going to ask. They are 4 pieces of information. What do you want us to do with them?

heres the answer to the car one:

The wife was about to have a baby. They drove to the hospital. The husband left to get a wheelchair, but the baby was born in the meantime, and the wife didn't survive the birth.

^ see what I meen... these are really open... there can only be so many 'wrong' answers...

This one is stupid: Solution for #5
A poor peasant from somewhere in Europe desperately wants to come to the United States. Lacking money for airfare, he stows away in the landing gear compartment of a jet. He dies of hypothermia in mid-flight and falls out when the compartment opens as the plane makes its final approach.

^ its not really lateral thinking its guessing what happened within a set of possible scenarios... given all the info you got you could say that his injurys sustained during an attack or something caused him to collapse in the park and unable to move he died of hypothermia

A man goes into a restaurant, orders albatross, eats one bite, and kills himself.

The man, his wife, and a second man were in a ship that was wrecked on a desert island. The man's wife died in the wreck. When there was no food left, the second man brought what he said was an albatross but was really part of the dead wife. Later they were rescued, and at some point, the first man decides to order albatross at a restaurant. It tastes nothing like what he was told was albatross on the island, which makes him realize he really ate his wife. Unable to cope with the realization, he kills himself.

^ or maybe he liked albatross and fancied having some before topping himself because he just got layed off... stupid fucking 'puzzles' :P

i asked for any ideas thats all

first one is cos the guy's a midget

second one is cos she's pregnant and dies

third one is the aeroplane thing as said

fourth one is as she was a siamese twin - apparently

Here are two more puzzles:

1. How far can a dog run into the woods?

2. A man builds a house. All four walls face South. A bear walks past the house - what colour is the bear?

3. Why does John Ruiz not just go away forever?

Halfway !

He's at north pole - so white

Because he is one of the greatest heavyweights of all time !

Originally Posted by Mark TKO

Halfway !

He's at north pole - so white

Because he is one of the greatest heavyweights of all time !

Nice one - 2 out of 3.

1 - correct
2 - correct
3. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO