An Expensive Invitation
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.
She lost her job when she invited them to dinner. How come?
Answer
Let's say "she" is named Suzy, and "they" are named Harry and Jane. Harry is an elderly archaeologist who has found a very old skeleton, which he's dubbed "Jane". Suzy is a buyer for a museum; she's supposed to make some sort of purchase from Harry, so she invites him to have a business dinner with her (at a restaurant). When she calls to invite him, he keeps talking about "Jane," so Suzy assumes that Jane is his wife and says to bring her along. Harry, offended, calls Suzy's boss and complains; since Suzy should've known who Jane was, she gets fired.
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A_n_d_y
Aug 21, 2002
| huh??? This one has gone way beyond a joke. Could someone give me a few megs of space so I could comment on exactly why this is the most pathetic Situation teaser I've come across so far. |
RHPSRuLeS 
Aug 22, 2002
| That was pretty bad. Too much info in the answer and it didn't even make sense. |
dumbell
Aug 27, 2002
| a five year old who sometimes sits with me while I 'braingle came up with a much better answer. she was a school dinner lady and they were school head teacher and deputy. Have you tasted school dinners? |
tissue  
Sep 14, 2002
| Why do you criticize this? It's wackiness makes it a great situation puzzle! A situation puzzle as it says is not meant to be so easy you can get the answer! Good job and don't listen to these guys. |
kiwioz9
Sep 15, 2002
| Andy as I said on the message boards (and to you others) this is what a situation puzzle is MEANT to be like. They only work if you solve them as suggested, with one person knowing the answer. Good teaser I say. |
im_para_noid 
Sep 20, 2002
| and here I was thinking it was harassment or something |
something
Oct 15, 2002
| Yes? Someone said my name?
J/k |
jimbo
May 26, 2003
| A situation teaser should contain some kind of hidden meaning so that what originally sounds like it could have almost any answer turns out to have one really obvious answer that everyone agrees makese sense, but didn't think of at first. Unfortunately, very few of theses puzzles are anything more than random explanations that could be replaced with a thousand others that make no more sense than the other 999. If you've read the situation with the guy who is bakrupt after parking outside a hotel, you'll instantly know what I mean about a good situation teaser (unlike this one)! |
username 
Oct 20, 2004
| i don't understand this at all. i'm completely confused. |
akl21
Jul 11, 2006
| I beg to differ with some of the early posters. If there are any number of /more/ logical (and just plain better) answers, than it stands to reason that it is a bad teaser. Especially if NO ONE gets it. NO ONE AT ALL. |
grungy49
Sep 12, 2006
| It's a good teaser - but there is absolutely no clues given - it could have been anything. |
JKnightD
Dec 12, 2006
| Again, this is not a teaser. It's a fill in the blank. Any answer will do as long as it ends with "her" losing her job. |
Hrsemn4
Jun 19, 2007
| Ever seen the one "The music stopped and he died." Thats the whole teaser, sorry, it's just bad. When you can ask the question in one breath, but you need a college lecture course to explain the answer, consider revision. |
cashewnut801
Jul 03, 2007
| No Situation teaser should require that much explanation!  |
allan512
Oct 16, 2007
| This is a dumb brain teaser. You should have been much more descriptive. I bet only like 1 or 2 people got this on their first try. |
bradon182001
Nov 12, 2008
| Guess i still don't understand this one. Sorry.  |
dhole 
May 19, 2009
| this one's a bit confusing...  |
mizchey
Aug 14, 2009
| the answer should have something to do with the situation you set up. |
beyonce123
May 19, 2010
| FANTASTIC I LOOOOOVE IT. thx for a gr8 teaser |
monkeybar
Nov 03, 2010
| There are billions of possible answer to this. I don't want to sound harsh but really this teaser is not my favourites.  |
princess2007
Mar 08, 2011
| This is just getting stupid. So basically the top-rated(in terms of difficulty) situation teasers aren't even teasers but just messed-up questions with non-contextual answers. I agree with jimbo. People need to understand wat situation teasers are supposed to be like. |
Jayo
Mar 22, 2012
| Awful, sorry but that was awful  |
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