Braingle: '9 Lives' Brain Teaser

9 Lives

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.

Puzzle ID:	#1178
Fun:	(2.24)
Difficulty:	(2.01)
Category:	Situation
Submitted By:	kelly_14ca
Corrected By:	shenqiang

A cat jumps off a building, but 9 cats die.
How is this possible?

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Comments

Mike1313 Oct 24, 2001	Some people wouldn't consider the kittens as being alive yet since they aren't born yet.
dark-prince May 02, 2002	it was a palastinian suicide cat and it blew up the local isreali cat resturant kill 8 innocent jewish cats....is this kosher?
im_para_noid Jun 19, 2002	I thought cats always landed on their feet
angie Jun 24, 2002	me too
horse_luver Apr 12, 2003	I thought that one cat jumped and 8 others followed.
dieblondboff Nov 30, 2003	Or there were 10 cats in the building and the building was on fire. The cat that jumped was the only one that survived
moondancer Jul 20, 2004	poor kitty's! They never even had a chance!
sweetime Jul 21, 2005	it landed on 8 cats, thus mushing them to death in the process of comitting suicide
tommy2 Nov 01, 2005	i thought it was because cats have 9 lives
triskit May 07, 2006	same here
Stormcrafter Nov 15, 2006	My first thought was - "It killed off all it's nine lives?" My second thought was "It hit a fragile sky scraper with 8 cats on the top floor and knocked it over or something?", and my final thought was "It landed on 8 other cats?" (my favourite one) - I never thought about kittens Favourited
CatatKHOP Aug 16, 2007	when i saw the answer i was like, "aww how sad" good thing it's not real...
Greenbanana Oct 01, 2007	That's a really unfortunate situation.
al111 Nov 05, 2007	i thought it has 9lives good one
cryptoson Feb 28, 2008	How awful!
pandastampede Mar 30, 2008	I thought he had 9 lives that died or there were "copycats" that followed him!
Shadows Nov 09, 2008	Wow... some cat. A cat would normally have 2 to 5 kittens, but 8... I liked it though. I must say, unborn cats shouldn't be considered cats, since scientists don't even consider fetuses human.
Gerrard10 Dec 01, 2008	This made me sad
dhole May 19, 2009	8 kittens!That's alot
Gerrard10 Nov 08, 2009	That's terrible.
beyonce123 Jun 02, 2010	Horse luver: doesn't that make them copycats I disagree with this teaser because cats land on their feet.
baliset Apr 13, 2011	My first thought: please don't let it be pregnant, please, please, please. Chah and yuck and eww. Sorry that I am a sensitive viewer in this case.