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A Thousand Miles
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
Marge has traveled over 1000 miles inside one building. How is this possible?
Answer
Marge is an elevator operator.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Millions of different answers to this: She's on a tread mill/stationary bike, She has just walked that much (it is possible, if she has had a job in the building for long enough.), etc.
Guess thats why it is in Situation though
Guess thats why it is in Situation though
I would WALK that distance at my university given all my classes are on the 5th floor and elevators have NOT seemed to have been invented in Chinese Uinversities as yet!
I guessed she walked up and down the stairs.
Or she's in a mall-walking group - (folks who get their exercise by walking indoors, out of the weather and in the air-conditioning) If she gets in 5 miles a day she'll have her 1000 miles in a little more than 7 months.
Or she delivers interoffice mail, walking about a mile each day,five days a week, 50 weeks each year (give her SOME vacation and holidays) and she'll log her 1000th mile after 4 years
Yeah I guess she had walked that long after a given amount of time...
it could be just her house and has lived there for years and years
Jul 18, 2006
A thought more scientific. She is on earth which is rotating and in orbit, therefore she is moving...everything is moving.
there are lots of other possible solutions, but I still thought it was really clever! great job!
I came up with a lot of answers but not that one!
I thought 'treadmill'... ok
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