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Outlaw Laundry
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
In 1935, a girl says her friend had her shirt laundered by famous outlaw, Al Capone. How is this possible?
Hint
In 1935, Al Capone was in the Alcatraz prison.Answer
Some of the prison guards and their families at Alcatraz lived on the island. They placed their dirty laundry in bags, which criminals washed. They were returned to the families, clean. The girl's friend could have been living on Alcatraz and snuck the girl's shirt in with her laundry bag, and possibly washed by Al Capone.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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I liked this one, although no offense intended, but if the girl said she HAD the shirt washed by Capone, but then POSSIBLY washed by him, is this presumption that the shirt was actually washed by Capone himself? I may have read it wrong Anyway just a thought, keep them coming
good!!!!!!!!!
She said she had the shirt washed by him. Which is possible. But she isn't going to brag to all her friends, "my shirt might have been washed my Capone." She's gonna say it WAS. I may not have interpreted what you were asking correctly, as I was confused.
i am guessing that you recently read the book Al Capone Does my Shirts, in which a similar incident happens?
tThat's some interesting trivia....... A post-graduationhistory lesson. I liked it, but I didn't get it.
Yes, the book did inspire the teaser.
It could just be because I just voted on 15 of them in a row, but this kind of sounds like a Trick teaser.
Either way, good job!
Either way, good job!
ok well guess I didn't understand the whole clue. Not good at trivia.
laundered could also have another meaning. like "laundering money". i thought al copone took her shirt and smuggled it out of the country. (why? i have no idea. ) o well, it was a good teaser.
How do you know about all this stuff?
While reading, I thought of laundering in the money sense, then felt that by that time he must have been in gaol so felt that he'd been in the prison laundry
Prison Laundry!! do you think they would do mine
good one! I got it because I've read the book "Al Capone Does My Shirts" but it was still a good teaser!
Or she could have lied.
Nice tidbit of info there. Very nice!
I love your teaser! I also read "Al Capone Does My Shirts". There is a second book called "Al Capone Shines My Shoes". I am reading it right now.
I read Al Capone Does My Shirts. That's how I solved the riddle.
Yeah, kind of obvious if you know Al Capone does my shirts. But good teaser.
I see everybody already mentioned Al Calopone Does my Shirts! Only reason I got this!
I guessed this on the basis of the year, which I thought must have some significance, and knowing that Al Capone is associated with the 1920s but ended up in prison, this leads to the solution. So I think this is a very clever one as you don't actually need to know the exact dates and details but it follows from common knowledge with a subtle clue.
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