Mile Drive
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.
Johny, Jack and Jose are sitting in a bar on a cold winter night. Jose starts getting a little braggadocious and states that he has ten thousand dollars that says he can hit a golf ball a mile. Jose clarifies that he means a regulation golf ball and driver off of a tee, and Johny and Jack smile and say they'll take that bet.
Jose got his drinking money out of them for the next month. How did he do it?
HintThey are in a bar in Michigan.
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Answer
In the dead of winter, Lake Michigan is completely frozen over. Jose teed up the ball on the banks of the lake and hit a perfect drive that would under normal circumstances go 300 to 400 yards. But with almost zero friction of the ice, the ball rolled completely out of sight.
Quick Tip: My daddy always told me, "No matter how bizarre the bet may seem, if a man is willing to bet his money that he can do something, he probably can!"
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chamber44
Feb 18, 2002
| My answer was that he drove it off a cliff. The altitude required would be consistant with the cold weather. |
gakuka 
Mar 25, 2002
| good teaser, and good quote, your dad was a very wise man. |
rohddawg
Mar 26, 2002
| great teaser... your hint threw me off even more though  |
tech_guy5
Mar 26, 2002
| that's a really good one it's hard to guess  |
GiantIQ
Apr 13, 2002
| This sounds like a good one to try=) Although I'm a bit concerned that he spend $10,000 on drinks in just one month! |
Mogmatt16  
May 06, 2002
| or maybe he hit it down a downhill road? |
O_wise_one
Jun 01, 2002
| My Science teacher told me that one, good tip though! |
angie
Jun 06, 2002
| i did some math, turns out JOse is going do spend $33 on drinks a day. And he's still going to have $10 leftover. God he's going to be drunk! |
(user deleted)
Jun 07, 2002
| Good teaser. My answer was that 'a ball a mile' could mean per mile, so he could just walk 2 miles hitting the ball every mile. |
peppermintwist
Jul 04, 2002
| I thought it was a play on words, and they hired a "driver" to "drive" the ball off of the tee and then take it for a mile long ride. Don't ask... my mind works in strange ways |
eterpay
Aug 01, 2002
| I thought he would hit the ball out of a plane or off a steep mountain, letting gravity take it down a mile. |
bmotts
Aug 14, 2002
| If there's one bad golf bet teaser, I haven't heard it! |
dumbell
Aug 22, 2002
| yet another person who got it wrong. I thought that as it did not state in the question that he would hit the ball 1 mile with one hit, he would just hit it loads of times. |
jimbo 
Sep 17, 2003
| So Lake Michigan slopes downhill does it? So that's why they don't need a boat to go water skiing in summer. |
dsquared
Jan 03, 2005
| Loved it |
bluejubba
Oct 02, 2006
| doesn't he get $20,000 dollars as it's $10,000 from each of them?
i also thought it was hit it off of a cliff. |
Madelulabelle 
Mar 12, 2007
| Good teaser,I thought it would be off a high cliff or something. Good quote too, It reminded me of Guys and Dolls. |
fedex337
Jun 25, 2007
| i thought he hit the golf ball off of a mountain  |
rehtaeh
Dec 09, 2007
| Thanks for the advice!! Great Teaser!! |
Herman
Apr 30, 2008
| Wow. First of all, if he lived in MI, there's no doubt he can drink that much.
Secondly, theoretically, yes, there is no friction on the ice, but, there is plenty of snow on the ground before the ice freezes, and, once it does, drifts onto the lake. The ball won't go that far, it will just hit snow and stop.
Trust me. |
Skybet 
Oct 22, 2011
| I thought a cliff too |
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