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Neat Clean Man
Situation
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.Situation
A scientist works with poison. When it is time to eat dinner, he clearly washes his hands! When eating his dinner, he suddenly dies.
How?
How?
Hint
Think of all the steps you take to wash your hands, especially the first and last steps.Answer
When the man turned the handle to turn the water on and off, there was poison on the handle. He died from turning off the sink and thus getting poison back on his hands.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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