Braingle: 'The Great Escape' Brain Teaser

The Great Escape

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.

Puzzle ID:	#542
Fun:	(3.04)
Difficulty:	(2.08)
Category:	Situation
Submitted By:	Squidgy
Corrected By:	boodler

A Swiss woman was stuck at a Nazi checkpoint. There was a very long bridge at the border of Germany and Switzerland, but it took six minutes to cross. Observing the guard at the guardhouse, she found that he came out every three minutes to check that no one was trying to leave or enter. How did she manage to escape?

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Comments

kimmer91k Apr 01, 2003	That made no sense.
jimbo May 17, 2003	Which side of the bridge is the guard on? If she get halfway and then turns around, hasn't she already passed the guard? Why not keep going?
Rowsdower Dec 02, 2003	Good teaser! The Nazi guard would have to have been on the German side, but even though she was past him he would have shot her because she couldn't have crossed in time to escape.
Mogmatt16 Jun 25, 2004	wow! good one!
pennylane Apr 11, 2005	Really really great!!!
chidam11 Jun 15, 2005	Wow!!!! this is one of my favorites
AZTTT Sep 14, 2005	very clever. good one
solarsistim321 Mar 08, 2006	great escape was one of THE BEST movies ever!
winbob423 Jul 16, 2006	This teaser is definitely going into my favorites!
Stormcrafter Nov 07, 2006	That is very clever! I like that! Favourited!
tintiniscool Apr 26, 2007	Excellent!
hyeongjeong Apr 17, 2010	nakita ko to sa commercial ng mentos...
princess2007 Mar 08, 2011	That honestly did occur to me but I thought the bridge wouldn't have been wide enough.
doctapeppaman Nov 20, 2011	It would probably have been safer had the bridge only taken 5 minutes and 59 seconds to cross, assuming that it does not take her any time to turn around.
donaldtrumpet May 15, 2012	Well didn't she earn her freedom. Smartypants...