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The Clumsy Driver.
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
One day, Charlie was driving his car when he got a flat tire. While changing the tire, he accidentally dropped all four lug nuts from the tire through a sewer grate in the road. After banging his head several times on the roof of his car for being so careless, he attached his spare tire the only way he knew how and drove to the nearest service station to repair his flat and replace the lost lug nuts. How did he attach the spare tire?
Answer
He removed one lug nut from each of his good tires leaving three lug nuts on each tire, including the spare. More than enough to get to the repair station.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Nice one. Fooled me, but not my wife. Strange really.
wow. That's a good one!
I'm not to smart when it comes to cars... You fooled me ;)
I got it right away, but it was a good one nonetheless.
That actuall happened to someone I know. The only difference was is that they lost the lug nuts in the ditch. LOL
DUH i nevr would have thought of that! course i probably would have called my dad to come fix my car rite now! good one!
it's easy if you take time to think about. i have to do a book report, so i just read the teaser and answer.
Heard it knew it its easy.
Ive done that before.....
You forgot the part about him asking someone at the insane asylum, who tells him what to do, then says "Just because I'm crazy doesn't mean I'm stupid."
whoa thats smart!
i thought he just tied it on w/ like a piece of string or something
cool teaser!
i thought he just tied it on w/ like a piece of string or something
cool teaser!
Hope that never happens to any of us!
you threw me off with the banging the head on the roof of the car. i thought he must have knocked loose some parts that worked in the lug nuts' place. good teaser regardless, thanks.
and he said "oh fuuuuudge" as the lugnuts disappeared into the grate. onluy he didn't say fudge-- he said the queen mother of dirty words. the F--- word. and then his mom washed out his mouth out with lifebuoy, which made him go blind. sad.
Aren't there 5 lug nuts on most cars?
I just thankful that you educated someone with this one, I've never sucessfully changed a tire but i would have tried this before paying someone. Thanks again to the Marine and Naval officer that stopped to change my tire for me on Christmas Day 2 years ago on HW 20, God bless and keep all of our troops.
I just thankful that you educated someone with this one, I've never sucessfully changed a tire but i would have tried this before paying someone. Thanks again to the Marine and Naval officer that stopped to change my tire for me on Christmas Day 2 years ago on HW 20, God bless and keep all of our troops.
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Excellent teaser! Very clever!
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