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Lucky Escape?
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
Becky and her family were very religious - in fact, they never missed a chance of going to worship. One Sunday, there was a terrible accident. A light aircraft had crashed into the very building where Becky's family always attended morning service. The pilot died and there were many injured.
Becky's aunt saw the story on the local news and immediately phoned Becky's mom to say, "You had a really lucky escape there, didn't you?" How did Becky's aunt know that the family was not among the injured?
Becky's aunt saw the story on the local news and immediately phoned Becky's mom to say, "You had a really lucky escape there, didn't you?" How did Becky's aunt know that the family was not among the injured?
Hint
Nobody in Becky's family was mentioned in the TV report or had been in contact with anyone else since the accident.Becky's aunt knew for certain that Becky's family survived and was not the least bit surprised.
Answer
Becky's family are Jewish.They would have been in the synagogue the day before the accident (Saturday), the Jewish Sabbath. The injured people were all passers-by.
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Makes sense. The answer I came up with is that the plane crashed into the building, but not on Sunday, so no one was in it.
I clearly said, "One Sunday, there was a terrible accident. A light aircraft had crashed into the very building", so what makes you think it wasn't on Sunday?
I had the right answer, but I was not very confident about it. If the family takes every opportunity to worship, are there no services on days other than Saturdays? Regardless, I enjoyed the teaser.
Huh. I figured the plane crashed when a service wasn't going on, around lunchtime or something.
They could also have been Muslims.
This sucked
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