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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
One of the most prominent citizens of Chicago once offered highly prized football tickets to forty people whom he despised. Can you explain his unusual generosity?
Hint
Q: Was the man trying to get rid of tickets?A: No
Q: Was the game upcoming scheduled for a convenient time and place?
A: Yes
Q: Did the people who were offered the tickets actually get to use them to go to the game?
A: No
Q: Did the man have the tickets available to give away?
A: No
Answer
The prominent citizen was the police chief. He called several of the city's most wanted criminals, and claimed that they had won the tickets in a random drawing. When the criminals arrived to claim their tickets, they got more than they bargained for!Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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did you get that from the simpsons with the boat scam
REALLY GOOD ONE! oops.... didn't mean to yell.
REALLY GOOD ONE! oops.... didn't mean to yell.
I thought that the tickets where for a game that already happened...
Good one
That's Entraptment, and it's not legal. No good
Yea your right; it's not realistic. The police wouldn't do that, and if you know that you would never guess that.
Actually, it is legal and has been done by the police before. The place I've heard of it first was Encyclopedia Brown's book of Wacky but True Crimes about 15 years ago.
Entrapment means encouraging or entising you to commit a crime you would not normally do so that they can catch and charge you with the crime.
Catching a criminal, even using false pretenses, is not entrapment.
Entrapment means encouraging or entising you to commit a crime you would not normally do so that they can catch and charge you with the crime.
Catching a criminal, even using false pretenses, is not entrapment.
those hints were so confusing! i thought i had the answer, and then read them and went off on some bizarre tangent ...
I thought that all the seats were behind poles or something. Nobody would ever guess this one....
LOL! Clever!
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