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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 man walked up to a woman behind a counter and handed her a book. She looked at it and said, "That'll be five dollars." He paid the woman and walked out without the book.
She saw him leave without it but did not call him back.
How come?
She saw him leave without it but did not call him back.
How come?
Answer
The man was returning an overdue library book.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Got it straight away.
A fun one. I had thought maybe it was a different type of book, like something with the man's order written down on it.
I thought they were in a bookstore and the man wanted to pay for a book he picked
I thought the answer was something like library. I heard a similar things like this before. Good teaser though.
Easy. Fun.
Got it in under a minute! I guess being a part time librarian helps too though. ;)
fun and easy...
i got it right away great teaser
Quite easy.
Jan 04, 2009
i thought he was at a bookstore and that he was paying to reserve it.
Got it straight away.
That was a funny situational teaser. NO, I failed. Sometimes, reading the situations and looking at the answers without the quiz component is more funny, just to be lulled is fun. Keep them coming
Posting the book somwhere maybe?
O_O Wow, didn't get it until like a milli second while opening the answer. I was like, a library while half looking at the answer
lol
lol
that was soooooooooo easy!
lol.
i hot it by the time i was half way through it!!! : no offense but its boring
it could also be a book of stamps, having put them on something to post he wouldn't leave with them.
Great teaser.
Or he was paying her to edit it before it gets published. 500 years ago before there were computers to give her a copy with and when $5 bought more than just a Big Mac.
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