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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
A cleaning woman asked the man she worked for if she could take home his empty bottles. When she got home, she threw them out. Why did she do this?
Hint
The bottles remained unbroken, unchanged, and unused throughout.They were worthless when empty, but had been expensive when full.
Answer
She took home the man's empty champagne bottles after a party. She then left them out with her garbage for collection in order to impress her neighbors.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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I enjoyed reading this teaser. I thought it was cute and funny. It was fun and not to easy. Thanks for sharing this with all of us. Great Job and clever ideal. Keep them coming!!
This was GOOD
i can't believe datz d answer but look it is wow! dat was a real brain teaser. good one.
i thought that might have been the answer, but that was too obvious, so i gave up.
I thought it was to keep from having to empty HIS trash or something weird like that, since she was the cleaning lady. I am obviously in dire need of sleep!
I was impressed with this puzzle! Very clever and good use of lateral thinking! I wish I would have thought harder before looking at the answer!
WOW that was Awsome!!! I will be giggling about it for a long time!
Cheap impressions...cool.
So her pretending to be achohalic impressed the neighbors? lol
Maybe she could get some caviar too.
Maybe she could get some caviar too.
Easy!
This is one of the very few clever situation teasers. Well done!
Haha!!! That is by far one of the best I have seen!!!!!!!
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