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Lateral Thinking 5

Category:Situation
Submitted By:shogun
Fun:*** (2.42)
Difficulty:*** (2.6)



Many 'Situation Puzzles' are not designed to be answered by themselves. The idea is for one person to know the answer and other people in a group to try and guess it using yes or no questions. The first person to get the answer is the winner.
Why did the lady deliberately tell the bus driver she found a lost lunch box which she had actually brought on the bus herself?

Hint:

She wants somebody to get it.

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Comments on this teaser


Posted by Majher06/13/08
this makes no sense. somone will just steal the food...

Posted by kunju06/14/08
didnt get the answer :oops:

Posted by jazzmusician4606/15/08
This teaser needs hints! :-?

Posted by jsdodgers06/15/08
what is a parcel?!?!?!?! :x :evil:

Posted by achilles306/18/08
the parcel could have contained a bomb,and she might have been a terrorist :P

Posted by castillion06/18/08
This was far too hard - it could have been anything in the parcel. It could have been old clothes she didn't want but couldn't be bothered to take to a charity shop -or a dead rabbit or a new toy because it was christmas eve and she wanted fate to give it to the most needy child .. .the list is endless. Not enough information was given to make a proper assumption. :x

Posted by unklemyke06/18/08
Got to agree with castillon et al. - way too little info, way too many other possibilities. :roll: First, unless she labeled the parcel, as custodian of the Lost and Found department, her husband is obliged to put it on a shelf and wait for the rightful owner to claim it!:oops: Next, found parcels are not removed from the bus until the driver's shift ends and he returns his unit to the garage - probably after it has spoiled and her husband's shift has ended too. :oops: Finally, in these terrorism- conscious days, the odd parcel will cause panic and probably wind up being blown up by the bomb squad.:-? All in all, not a great plan! :wink: :lol:

Posted by wilzims06/21/08
achilles, I guessed a bomb and she was a terrorist two... LOL! :oops:

Posted by vikingboy07/08/08
Odd to say the least. 1) low odds of making it to her husband before someone else took it 2) probably spoiled by then anyway 3) the terrorist angle 4) why not just give it to the driver to give to her husband?

Posted by liketeasers07/16/08
this teaser contains many possibilities. at first, i thought she left the parcel "behind" her, so right in back of her. my 2nd theory was that she was undercover or something and needed to pass it to someone in the bus. but hey, if it was a crispy chicken sandwich, i would have eaten it! :lol:

Posted by liketeasers07/16/08
and oh, the answer that you have given for this teaser is incorrect because public buses go around for a whole day. her husband would be already home before the bus went to the lost and found company.

Posted by shogun07/16/08
wow ppl.. it's a situation puzzle.. you're not supposed to know a lot of info.. also, i know there are a lot of possibilities for this one.. but i was looking for just one

Posted by al11107/25/08
VERY GOOD :D

Posted by changhill08/02/08
while you may have looked just for one answer, the long list of possibility prevents anyone feeling any sense of success...

Posted by zxyggrhyn08/24/08
I just don't know about your countries but our buses here don't have people for that Lost and Found scheme thing. Another thing is that the puzzle seems to be too abstract. Yes, it's a situational puzzle but I think the situation given was a bit random and arbitrary to think of an exact scenario. If that lady did that thing in our place, it's either that she forgot about it, or it's a (excuse me) fetus inside, or it's a disguised bomb (Oh spare Mindanao!). :-?

Posted by zxyggrhyn08/24/08
PS: And I felt that it came out from a riddle book. But I just don't know.

Posted by Wa11E09/18/08
It's a chancey method and as people say, a possible bomb threat. That means he receives them after his break, if at all He could be reprimanded for leaving his sandwhiches at home. :roll:

Posted by heyhey10/15/08
Like alot of others said..I thought it was a bomb to

Posted by shogun10/15/08
there's only one answer... :-?

Posted by drwdrw10/24/08
This teaser works far more complicate than recent,I think. :-?

Posted by precious102612/28/08
:lol: :evil: Cleaver for all of you who are Civil Servants. :evil:

Posted by Sock-Puppy_Plzr03/29/10
That terrorist! If it was a bomb the bus driver could have been BLOWN UP!! :lol:

Posted by Marple09/02/10
Surreal!! :o




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