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You are a topnotch professor at Harvard University. People all over the world know your name and would be delighted to possess only a fraction of your intelligence. However, today, on a casual weekend at your house, you are extremely befuddled.
Your dilemma is that you are unable to locate your television remote. After performing a quick search of your family room and realizing, because of your great intelligence, that it isn't there, you decide to write out what rooms you were recently in and where the remote might accidentally have been left. Here are your journal entries:
Yesterday 14:31-
Went to master bedroom to retrieve student essays. Remote may have been taken along accidentally. If in master bedroom, probably kept inside southeast drawer of desk.
Today 5:21-
Woke up late today. After brushing, went downstairs and saw that daughter, Joanne, had already turned on TV. May have taken remote later on to kitchen when in process of preparing breakfast.
Today 11:12-
After being nagged by wife about not doing laundry (NOTE TO SELF: build robot to end wife's pestering for one that will do chores), took hamper to the laundry room. It is possible that the remote accidentally dropped inside the washing machine or dryer.
Now, you really want to watch an educational show that starts in five minutes on the Science Channel and need to decide what your plan of action should be. What should you do?
Your dilemma is that you are unable to locate your television remote. After performing a quick search of your family room and realizing, because of your great intelligence, that it isn't there, you decide to write out what rooms you were recently in and where the remote might accidentally have been left. Here are your journal entries:
Yesterday 14:31-
Went to master bedroom to retrieve student essays. Remote may have been taken along accidentally. If in master bedroom, probably kept inside southeast drawer of desk.
Today 5:21-
Woke up late today. After brushing, went downstairs and saw that daughter, Joanne, had already turned on TV. May have taken remote later on to kitchen when in process of preparing breakfast.
Today 11:12-
After being nagged by wife about not doing laundry (NOTE TO SELF: build robot to end wife's pestering for one that will do chores), took hamper to the laundry room. It is possible that the remote accidentally dropped inside the washing machine or dryer.
Now, you really want to watch an educational show that starts in five minutes on the Science Channel and need to decide what your plan of action should be. What should you do?
Answer
Go up to the TV, and press the power button!Hide Answer Show Answer
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Well,DUH!
what is this "power button" on the tv you speek of? jk
good teaser
good teaser
or you could ask your daughter where the remote is seeing as though you saw her watching the TV earlier that day?
The inspiration for this teaser was the personality of an average American. There are people (of course they won't go to the extreme of writing a journal) that will go all over their house to find the remote while they can't get themselves up to press a button on the TV itself.
omg, i am such a dope. i didn;t get it and when i looked at the answer i went "well duh, a 5 year old could have solved that!" great teaser
That's so obvious - to a woman!
EZ!Keep 'em comin'!
come one make them harder
Oh please...spare me!
What if it was set on a different channel?
Ummm... change the channel by the TV also!
I thought that at first, but it seemed to obvious that I figured the TV didn't have a power button
What an interesting one!
Mercenary... Why ask the daughter? You have 5 minutes. Just turn the tv on. ;) Plus, the daughter wouldn't necissarily have used the remote, either. You can watch tv without a remote!
HAHAHA! I got it right away since I never understood why people with get up, look ALL over the house and not think to push the button. Great teaser-very logical but a lot of people might miss it GREAT!
you can watch tv without a remote??
since when??
since when??
Sword, how does the power button get the Science Channel?
Cute story.
Cute story.
this actually happened to me...and now i don't have a remote for my television! (which is why my mini tv is on my computer desk, placing me easily within reach of the buttons)
i apologize if this comment is unnecessarily long.
i apologize if this comment is unnecessarily long.
My brother messed up the button on my tv, so I have to keep up with the remote
That was a 'brain teaser'???
I guess I overanalyzed. I figured the daughter had turned on the TV with the remote, so the hamper was the only place it would be.
too easy for me 'cuz i never know where the guys "hid" the 'mote!
great but it was pretty obvious.i jus want to say how lazy some people are!!!
Jun 12, 2006
WOW! 4 the 1st time I got something rite!
fastastic i give it a 9 and a half out of 10
Good one, although I knew it all along. Made it even more fun to read through, though.
fun but EZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Lol I cant believe I didn't come up with that one.
i would have never came up with the anwser for that one 'cause i'm to lazy to get up when i'm waching tv
Fun but e-z-z-z-z!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You know, you made it obviuos by talking completly about the remote!
Remote? Next you're gonna tell me TV is in colour. Good One.
That one nearly caught me, but I thought of it eventually
geeze who in their right mind would write down jornal entries about where they could have left the remote. A long time b4 that i would have gone u pto the T.V. and pressed the power button. lol
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops!!!!!!!!
nice teaser though!
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that was really easy...but we established that already. but i like how you gave information that had nothing to do with the answer to throw people off.
It only said that he checked in the family room.
Why didn't he check all the other rooms?
I think I must have missed something.
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Why didn't he check all the other rooms?
I think I must have missed something.
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i said go buy a nw remote My T.V. doesn't have a power button.
Easy!
Everyone's saying it was easy, but I forgot the category it was in and treated it like a mystery teaser. After twenty seconds of deductive reasoning, I didn't get it, so when I saw the answer . . . Nice one!
I got this pretty easily, but, even if I wanted to, I couldn't do this on my TV, there are no buttons : P
My TV has buttons, but sadly, I didn't get it.
my tv button does not work ( )
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