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Breakfast In Bed
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 night Hugh was at work at the Madadia Kebab recycling plant when he received an unexpected telephone call from a neighbour, listened to what the neighbour said, slammed down the phone and left work and drove straight home. On entering his house Hugh crept upstairs and found his wife in bed with a stranger. He wasn't angry but he was surprised. In fact he crept back down stairs and made his wife some breakfast, which he took up for her to eat in bed.
Why was Hugh so calm about finding his wife in bed with someone he had never met before?
Why was Hugh so calm about finding his wife in bed with someone he had never met before?
Answer
The stranger was a baby; Hugh's wife had gone into labour while he was at work. The neighbour had called to let him know.Hide Answer Show Answer
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That's really clever. It tricked me out!
I knew it had something to do with a child!
i knew it was a kid or child but i couldnt figure out why he mighta been mad.
Aug 17, 2002
i knew it was sumthin to do with a child... i just cudnt figure it out wat it was!
my first thought was that it was a dog. thats nasty though.
I quite liked this even though I did get it forst time.
Hugh was working at night. He went home, up the stairs, back down and made breakfast for his wife. Breakfast at night?
Sep 13, 2002
Too easy.
yay got that one right! Good one
labor takes a long time - but he was at work long enough for her to go to the hospital, have the baby, get permission to leave, go back home and go to bed???
x-remely easy, good though.
I thought the neighbor called and said he was going over there to go to bed with her.
Sep 13, 2002
hey columbia......did it ever occur to you that she had the baby at home??? and labor doesn't always take a long time when the child is ready...especially when it is not the first child to be born.....
i got it, i dont know how, but i did
Good one
Good but,
i've read it in a book before
i've read it in a book before
Wow I got that one right(Must be easy). Keep up the great work Mad-ade.
Who do you think of all these good brainteasers? Keep up the good work!
That was a good one. Nice work! I also thought that the "baby" was a dog. Even though of course that sounds a bit odd. Very good though .
Home birth eh? Fairly uncommon.
Same idea as The Stranger in the Car in a book by Paul Sloane & Des MacHale. Very simple one.
How do you recycle a kebab?
I had this one in a mensa book... Good job though! I like how you sneak a little humor into all of your teasers!
No offence but it was really easy.
BulletThruDaHed - it's safest not to ask those sorts of questions
very nice
this was so easy, I actually got it! (and that's saying something!)
LamarChan
LamarChan
A DOGGIE!!! A MINITURE DOGGIE!!!
I was thinking baby, but for some reason I didn't quite make the connection between the neighbor's call and the baby's appearance. Maybe I just went to fast and didn't pay as much attention as I should have to the phone call. Anyways, great teaser!!!!!!!
i thought the "baby" is a doctor and her wife is sick.....
I thought that it was a doctor at first, but then I realized that he would not be in bed with her, and then i immediately thought it was a baby.
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