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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 man is in a music room that is filling with a colorful gas rather quickly. With very limited vision, he is able to find 3 keys in the room, in 3 different places. The keys are all just about the same size. However, almost immediately, he tosses back one of the keys. He never bothers to try it in the door, which is locked and the only way out. Why does the man do this?
Answer
The man throws away one of the keys immediately because although he can't see well, he knows by feeling it, that the key he picked up was a PIANO key. It was found under the piano in the music room.Hide Answer Show Answer
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rather easy but i liked it
it's rather obvious. a piano was the first thing that came to my mind when keys were mentioned
Its ok but kind of easy
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If the keys are "all just about the same size", then how does he know for definate that the one he threw away was the piano key, unless it was significantly different from the others? Just because it was found near the piano does not suggest it belongs to the piano.
In a room filled with gas, you rely not on vision but on the sense of touch. He immediately knew that a piano key was not a door key.
I got piano key straight away but for a different reason. I thought it was a pun on the ivory "keys" of the piano. He found middle C but didn't bother trying it in the lock. But how could he throw it away? Hm.
There are two pianos in my home (years and years ago, there were 4) and I definitely know what a piano key looks like - even taken out of the piano.It does not at all the same size as a regular key and wouldn't make sense in this case. Maybe a more sensible answer could be the material used to make the key.
i thought the key he threw away lacked those bumpy ridgy bits that a key requires to work in a lock (thus he found a "blank" key). this isn't likely to be of use in any door so he threw it away and tried the two keys that had actually been cut.
Ooh, pretty gas! Did he die?
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