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The Bush
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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
In a bush the police found a sack of stolen diamonds and had two prime suspects. After two days they called both of them in and immediately arrested the guilty one. How did they know?
Answer
The bush was poison ivy and after two days the rash would have appeared.Hide Answer Show Answer
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clever.. 3/3
Yeah, thiz iz pretty kewl
Very clever. Such smart police!
COuldn't one have taken a cold shower to get it off before they got called?
Moggmatt: No, once you have it on, it sticks, believe me, I should know!
Very Clever! I've never had poison Ivy, does it suck?
Good police work.
My answer was that it was a thorn bush.
Very nice.
I was thrown off...the way it reads, they police found two suspects in the bush. Then they would have both gotten the rash. Other than that, good.
cool, but i thought poison ivy was a vine, not a bush.
Assuming you were allergic, not all people are and even if you were, it would have to be a repeat exposure to the plant because you cannot contract the dermatitis on first contact.
ALW007 is right... the first time you touch poison ivy, your body doesn't know what it is yet so there's no reaction. The second time and onward, you get an immune reaction because your body has built up a defense!
Frank, if I were the police I'd be pretty suspicious if I find two people in a poison ivy bush along with a bag of diamonds. Cool teaser!
Nice one. My friend had poison ivy once. She had to miss school.
I ended up with either they had left fingerprints, or it was one of those bushes with burrs and they couldn't get them out. (Once when I went camping we had to throw away a pair of pants because the burrs would not come out. At all. R.I.P. pants.)
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