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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
A man wearing a wetsuit and scuba gear was found burnt and dead in the middle of a forest. How did he get there?
Answer
He was scuba diving when he got picked up by a monsoon bucket to put out a bush fire and got dropped into the fire.Hide Answer Show Answer
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jolly good!
This exact situation was in the movie "Magnolia". So, while it is humorous, it is also unoriginal.
This actually happened, but the diver died of massive internal injuries rather than from being burnt
Now, how could one come guess an answere like that?
Its more of a punch line thing than a brain teaser.
As far from logical thinking one could come.
Its more of a punch line thing than a brain teaser.
As far from logical thinking one could come.
This story was on the tv show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS. He got there because his friend put him there to make it look like an accident.
yea I saw that episode on CSI HE WAS MURDERED!!!!
Aaah, I don't actually think it did happen as per (this is a great site for debunking urban legends like this):
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bldiver.htm
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bldiver.htm
They also did it on an episode of Mythbusters. The myth was busted.
wow so it has really happend, thats awful! But a Kool teaser, thanks!
One of the old, classic teasers...
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Ummm...CSI. Please try to be more original.
I don't have a clue what the answer's saying. What is a monsoon, why would a diver be picked up by it, and why was he dropped into a bush fire?
didn't they test that on mythbusters?
how does that even happen? Like a weird version of nemo.
Firstly, unoriginal or not, that was a good teaser and could actually happen.
Second, Shadows, what is going on here is there is a forest fire and the people that live there are using ENORMOUS buckets on cranes basically to scoop water to use to put out the fire. They accidentally scooped up the scuba diver and dropped him along with about a hundred gallons of water into the forest fire.
Third... is it a scuba diver or a scoop-a-diver?? corny I know but its funny
Second, Shadows, what is going on here is there is a forest fire and the people that live there are using ENORMOUS buckets on cranes basically to scoop water to use to put out the fire. They accidentally scooped up the scuba diver and dropped him along with about a hundred gallons of water into the forest fire.
Third... is it a scuba diver or a scoop-a-diver?? corny I know but its funny
This is ingenious. It's a classic lateral-thinking puzzle since the answer makes sense but is completely outside the frame you assume.
However, although I think it's a good puzzle, I don't like puzzles about people dying, and for some reason these are extremely common. It must be hard to get life insurance in the Land of Brainteasers.
However, although I think it's a good puzzle, I don't like puzzles about people dying, and for some reason these are extremely common. It must be hard to get life insurance in the Land of Brainteasers.
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