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Truck Recovery
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
A truck driver reported to his office that his truck had broken down. A tow truck was sent out to tow the disabled truck. When they arrived, the truck that had broken down was towing the tow truck. Why?
Hint
There was nothing wrong with the tow truck. The truck that had broken down had a serious fault which was remedied by the way they drove back.Answer
It`d broken down because its brakes had completely failed. The truck driver drove back towing the recovery vehicle. When he needed to slow, he signalled with his hand and the recovery truck driver applied his brakes,thereby slowing both vehicles.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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Oct 06, 2001
Why indeed. Why didn't the tow truck just tow the other vehicle in the normal way? This makes no sense.
because the truck is much heavier than the tow truck so its much easier for the truck to do whatever it can to help
I'm sure that's completely illegal!!
lol probably
Yeah
That makes absolutely no sense. Yes it is possible, but you don't give a reason.
at first i thought the tow truck was IN the truck. then just as i clicked the answer the answer came to me. it reminds me of scobby-doo for some strange reason
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