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Hans & Fritz
Situation
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
Hans and Fritz are German spies during World War II. They try to enter America, posing as returning tourists. Hans is immediately arrested. Why?
Answer
Crossing the border, Hans and Fritz were required to fill out a personal information form, which asked, among other things, their birthdays. The German date ordering is day/month/year, rather than the American way, month/day/year. Fritz was born on, say, July 7th, so he wrote down 7/7/15 -- no problem. Hans was born on, say, July 20th, so he wrote down 20/7/15 instead of the American way, 7/20/15. Since Hans had claimed to be a returning American, he was found out by the border police.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Rather far fetched!
How about this....during the war, tourist didn't visit Germany. It was enemy territory, so they were immediately arrested since they claimed to be tourist. It's a little more logical than your answer. Especially, since the US military uses the date scheme you say is German.
I don't know about back then, but nowadays the INS/US Customs also use the European method of day/month/year.
that was very improbable, because if they were spies they were taought the american way for things
taught, excuse me
I think that if they were planing to enter US, they would figured out how do people wright date in US.
how old are you Missie?
Did you get the answer in your dream or the Alsetian K9 whispered it to your ear? Thats another situation.
Did you get the answer in your dream or the Alsetian K9 whispered it to your ear? Thats another situation.
Clever idea, but could have been better. E for effort!
thats a good one
either of them could have had that birthdate. y hans?
lol good 1 i usully dont say dat unless someone insults some1
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