A Father's Nightmare
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.
A young woman tells her parents that she is engaged to a nice man whom she just met, and upon getting to know him the parents learn that he spent 6 months in a juvenile detention facility, 2 years in prison and 2 years in a mental facility for the criminally insane. Upon learning what the man did to get into each of these facilities, they gave their daughter their blessing to marry him. Why?
HintThink of EVERYBODY who is in these facilities and what they did to get there.
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Answer
The young man was employed in each of these facilities. The girl's parents were pleased to know that in order to work at these facilities he had gotten a degree in substance abuse counseling, gone to the police academy to get certified as a corrections officer, and ultimately become a nurse practitioner via night-school to get a job at the mental facility.
(In case you're wondering, the total amount of time he spent at each facility is given above based on his hours worked, so for example he actually worked for a year and a half at the juvenile detention center.)
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(user deleted)
Apr 17, 2004
| omg how easy was that? lol  |
(user deleted)
Apr 18, 2004
| You're scraping bottom when you do an autobiographical teaser, Rows. But it was alright.  |
(user deleted)
Apr 18, 2004
| Way too easy, Rows. I gave you a 'hard' vote out of pity. Some of your other teasers are much better than this.  Oh, wait. I don't have any teasers of my own yet. I'll shut up.  |
Mamamunchies
Apr 18, 2004
| Hmmm....That woman seems familiar. |
shanny09
Apr 18, 2004
| I thought that was good. Wait a tick, it looks like i'm the only one who truly found it hard....but it was. Nice one! |
jacintan 
Apr 18, 2004
| Easy, but fun. Yet i've read so many of these that they are getting sort of boring. All the same, it was really good.  |
Newf  
Apr 19, 2004
| I thought it was good. Easy but good. |
7catac7 
Apr 24, 2004
| lol, i thought the answer was that the parents were idiots and didnt care who she married  |
Palsha 
Apr 24, 2004
| good good good! |
unklemyke
May 03, 2004
| (Yaawnnn) Obvious. Boooorrringgg! Next?  |
(user deleted)
May 04, 2004
| Yeah, unklemyke, YOUR teasers are way better. Oh, wait! You don't have any teasers yet. Shut your pie hole, mook. |
joanie
May 24, 2004
| Pitiful |
witness
Jun 07, 2004
| I don't think anyone was wondering about the time he actually worked there. |
aPlatinum
Aug 23, 2004
| duh |
ace_of_spades
Oct 03, 2004
| Easy |
I_am_the_Omega
Nov 06, 2004
| Wasn't hard, but I liked it– until the very end of the explanation. This bothered me immensely.
Based upon a 40 hour work week, and 168 hours a week, we can conlude that, for every year of work hours, he spent 4.2 years of his life. 4.2, multiplied by 4.5 (2+2+0.5 years total) yields 18.9, which we can round to 19 years. Now, considering that, to work at these facilities, he would *likely* have to be at least 18, which we'll assume he was, we will add 18 to 19. We get 37. Now, my definition of a "young woman," is around the age of 25.
Now, her parents might have approved of her marrying a man 12 years her senior.. but I don't! |
Rowsdower
Nov 18, 2004
| Young is relative, I guess. The people I based this on were 29 and 27, and the numbers crunch weird because he was a summer grounds keeper at the youth facility when he was 16.
Ironically, I only included that little explanation in an attempt to avoid being nit picked over the time spent in each facility... |
babygirl35
Dec 02, 2004
| no ofense but it was to easy |
triskit
Jun 17, 2005
| no offence but that was eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy |
metallicman
Nov 14, 2005
| it was easy, but still a classic situation. Nice and easy to end the day with. Obviously I know your capable of more, I've read your other ones. Good job over all on all your teasers, keep up the good work. |
natureluver
Nov 27, 2006
| Am I the only one who thought it was hard????? |
Keiko
Sep 19, 2008
| Cool!!!  |
xdbtcp
Dec 16, 2009
| I still don't think I'd let my daughter get engaged to a guy she just met... |
yokouhoho
Apr 24, 2011
| I got this one right away! |
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