One Man Catch?
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 man throws a baseball about fifty feet when it turns around and returns to the man. The man catches it easily. How is this possible?
HintIf you have ever done this, you could say it is uplifting.
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Answer
The man throws the ball straight up into the air and then catches it when it falls back down.
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Comments
smileysteve  
Apr 01, 2003
| I was going to say that he threw it and it bounced of a wall. But baseballs dont bounce very far. |
jimbo 
May 25, 2003
| Obvious! |
moondancer
Jul 16, 2004
| i figured this out after a little while of thinking...  |
darthforman
May 25, 2005
| nice one but old  |
bookworm91
Nov 10, 2005
| easy-peasy! wonderful i love em like that. |
scm14 
Dec 09, 2005
| Or he was playing catch with somebody and they threw the ball back.  |
Tryer
Dec 29, 2005
| Easy? that is when you know the answer!! |
irar1792
Dec 31, 2005
| that was way easy... |
squidward927
Jan 26, 2006
| nice one |
squidward927
Jan 26, 2006
| nice one |
squidward927
Jan 26, 2006
| nice one |
squidward927
Jan 26, 2006
| nice one |
tca2
May 01, 2006
| That was a good on! but sorta easy. My first thought was it hit a wall.  |
spazzyjazzy93
May 07, 2006
| or he could have thrown it into a SUPER strong wind 
. . .but then it might just knock him over so never mind  |
Quickq
May 08, 2006
| How can anyone throw a ball 50 feet?  |
elshawno
May 19, 2006
| that was a good one... i got it though... it was easy enough 4 me to finally get it... yay! |
Smudge
May 25, 2006
| Or he could be somewhere in space where there's no gravity or friction, and could throw it slowly against a solid object, and it would bounce back just as slowly, and accurately.
Furthmore, he could be in a depressurized, counter-gravitational man-made environment...but that's clutching at straws |
Unraveled
Jun 25, 2006
| After I read the first sentence, I immediately though that he threw it upwards. When you asked, "How is this possible?" I just though, "How is it NOT possible to catch it if it's thrown up in the air?"
Then, I realized that you were trying to confuse us and meant throwing it out.
Silly me. (though it got me the answer ) |
Ashley_Turtle
Jul 24, 2006
| i didnt get it maybe you can explain it to me.  |
Roostyr
Aug 21, 2006
| i liked it lol |
Qrystal
Sep 18, 2006
| I actually did the same thing as Unraveled.
Could it be that I'm not the only one who has done too many physics problems? |
2rubystar2
Oct 14, 2006
| That was so easy. I've heard it a million times. Can't you people think of something a little more original? |
have_hope605
Nov 25, 2006
| i liked it a lot............maybe that's cuz i got it right |
Bismillah
Jan 05, 2007
| Good one |
Bismillah
Jan 05, 2007
| Good one. |
bgil7604
Feb 28, 2007
| The answer was obvious without the hint (which sounded really wierd.) |
didida
Mar 18, 2007
| I thought it hit a wall! |
bookwrmKP
Jan 24, 2008
| This is pretty easy, but i think you should have had more guidlines, mainly, that it wasn't thrown against anything, that it wasn't caught by anyone, stuff like that. Otherwise there were so many answers! Really easy, but still kinda fun... |
AlexRi3er
Nov 12, 2008
| That was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo easy. |
Shadows
Nov 16, 2008
| This is teaser #196... It doesn't HAVE to be original. |
thebrain789 
Oct 21, 2010
| I heard this one before. |
Marple
Jan 25, 2013
| Pretty stupid. Way too easy. |
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