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Bar lunch
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
I went into a bar during my lunch break to get some food. I ordered my dinner and went up to the bar for a drink. It being lunch time, there was quite a long queue. I got talking to another guy who was also on his lunch break, and he said that if I gave him the money for the drink he would get it for me and bring it over to the table. I was quite suspicious of this person, so I agreed out of curiosity to see what he would do. Five minutes later he came over to my table with a glass of water for himself and he gave me my drink. I counted the change he gave me which was also correct. He had done something dishonest and was going to profit from it, but how?
Answer
He was having a working lunch and had got a receipt for my drink. He was going to claim expenses from his company for goods he never paid for!Hide Answer Show Answer
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brill
If there's one bad lunch break teaser, I haven't heard it!!
I never ever would have thougt of that!!!!
Aug 16, 2002
that is so dumb!!
Good one. I was thinking that he had bought a meal that came with a drink ticket and used this - got the necessary change at the bar, pocketed the cash.
um...that was pretty lame.
Aug 31, 2002
here is a teaser for you. Rearrange these words in to a well known sentence; THE, BOTTOM, THE, SCRAPING, BARREL, OF. ?
Ok....next time clarify a little more about the other man. He could have also spit in the drink, and got his profit from his inside chuckles
I thought that the man had put something in the drink. Cute though.
The sense made by some of these comments can be measured by the number of teasers these people have submitted. This one is quite a good teaser with a sensible and clever answer.
Jul 02, 2007
Hey- I got that one right away! Yay me!
Very clever!! great teaser!
I want to work for a company that lets me expense drinks from the bar.
Nice riddle.
Nice riddle.
Awesome.
Excellent, and well told.
What I like is that it's not only clever but completely plausible. (I'm not so keen on bizarre murders.) I couldn't get this - perhaps the fact that I don't work in a field where you get expenses like this made it harder.
What I like is that it's not only clever but completely plausible. (I'm not so keen on bizarre murders.) I couldn't get this - perhaps the fact that I don't work in a field where you get expenses like this made it harder.
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