Author Topic: Lateral Thinking Puzzle (Read 5086 times)

CK9 · « **on:** July 16, 2004, 12:45:59 AM »

A man stepped out of a speeding train to his death, He had ben on his own in the compartment, and all that was found there was a very large handkerchief. If he had made the journey by any means other than trin, he would almost certainly not have decided to commit suicide. Why did he take his life?

Kiith Somtaaw · « **Reply #1 on:** July 16, 2004, 12:57:47 AM »

The man had just completed a course of treatment intended to cure him of blindness. He had high hopes of success. He travelled home on the train with the handkerchief as a blindfold to protect his eyes from the light.

He could not wait and decided to remove the blindfold to test his eyesight. When he removed the blindfold, he could see nothing and assumed that the treatment had failed. He could not face the future as a blind man and, therefore, he stepped out of the speeding train to his death.

The treatment had, in fact, been successful, but he had unfortunately removed the blindfold while the train was in a long tunnel. The carriage was in complete darkness.

PlayingOutpost0-24 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 16, 2004, 01:11:36 AM »

Not bad...

try this:

A young woman entered the house and opened the chest of drawers. She grabbed some paper and a gun. She has gone to the kitchen and burned the papers and then shot herself. Before her death she only dropped a wet handkerchief. (not the thing that comes from the nose

) Why did she killed herself?

CK9 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 16, 2004, 01:28:28 AM »

kiith, you have the book, don't you?

Was her decision directally related to the burning of the paper?

Betaray · « **Reply #4 on:** July 16, 2004, 02:08:38 AM »

the papers were divorce papers that were unfair to her (mabe after the divorce she woudl get nothing, and have no life, her reputation shattered and she would have no future)

in a last act of defience she burned the papers, but to keep the house from catching on fire (she was a neat freak) she quickly smothered the fire with the wet hankerchiff and than shot herself, she also put the hankerchiff on teh other side of her head in an attempt to catch the blood and brain/skull fragments (she wasnt very smart)

was I even remotely close?

Kiith Somtaaw · « **Reply #5 on:** July 17, 2004, 01:55:24 AM »

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kiith, you have the book, don't you?

Was her decision directally related to the burning of the paper?

Book? What book?

What is it called?

CK9 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 17, 2004, 01:49:40 PM »

it is caled Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Betaray · « **Reply #7 on:** July 18, 2004, 12:51:16 PM »

well, am I close or what?

CK9 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 18, 2004, 05:49:39 PM »

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Not bad... try this:

A young woman entered the house and opened the chest of drawers. She grabbed some paper and a gun. She has gone to the kitchen and burned the papers and then shot herself. Before her death she only dropped a wet handkerchief. (not the thing that comes from the nose ) Why did she killed herself?

okay, here's my guess:

She was the accomplice in a robbery. Later, a long while later, she was sitting in her house when she got a letter that her lover (and accomplice) had died. After crying into the hanky, she decided that she needed to destroy the evidence. When she opened the drawer to take out the money, she saw the gun there and depression took over. The rest is stated in the puzzle's questioning opening.

Betaray · « **Reply #9 on:** July 18, 2004, 06:31:12 PM »

better than my idea lol

ZeusBD · « **Reply #10 on:** July 20, 2004, 08:09:58 AM »

As that one goes un-answered, here's one:

Each day, a man rides the elevator down to the bottom floor and leaves for work. When he comes home from work he rides the evevator half way up and then takes the stairs the rest of the way up...Why?

CK9 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 20, 2004, 10:12:13 AM »

he's a midget (sp).

same one is in one of my books, just different wording.

here's one:

a man without eyes saw plums on a tree. He did not take plums and he did not leave plums. How is this possible?

ZeusBD · « **Reply #12 on:** July 20, 2004, 10:17:50 AM »

It was a dream?

CK9 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 20, 2004, 10:25:37 AM »

nope, look at what some words have in common

ZeusBD · « **Reply #14 on:** July 20, 2004, 10:31:45 AM »

The man had only one eye. He took only one plum and he left only one plum?

CK9 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 20, 2004, 10:32:21 AM »

exactally

ZeusBD · « **Reply #16 on:** July 20, 2004, 10:38:33 AM »

A man walks into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender immediatly pulls out a gun and points it at the man. The man says thankyou and walks away. They had never met before, so what was going on?

CK9 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 20, 2004, 10:50:29 AM »

the man who walked into the bar had hiccups. The shock of the gun being pulled out and pointed at him cured them.

A man who wanted a drink and hadn't had any alcohol all day walked into a bar and immediately was knocked out. What happened?

xfir · « **Reply #18 on:** July 20, 2004, 11:35:34 AM »

There is a difference between bars for drinking and bars that support. He ran into a bar...

ZeusBD · « **Reply #19 on:** July 20, 2004, 11:36:33 AM »

Kinda like the joke...Two men walk into a bar, the third guy ducked.

CK9 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 20, 2004, 11:49:56 AM »

lol, yep (the normal answer is that it was an iron bar)

PlayingOutpost0-24 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 13, 2004, 01:43:35 PM »

n e way CK9 you were very close

The key is that the papers were nothing... They were only burned because of... well just anger control... The only thing is that she had a husband and she uncovered that her husband is going out with another girl lol...

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Author Topic: Lateral Thinking Puzzle (Read 5086 times)

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