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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
Two siblings were fighting when their mother went to stop them. She used yesterday's newspaper and made them stand on it until they made up. How did she get them to stand on the newspaper so that the siblings couldn't touch each other?
Hint
She did nothing to the newspaper to hurt them.Answer
She slipped the newspaper under a door and closed the door. She made them stand on the two ends.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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You chukk this is cool
SHe separated sheets and put them in different places
Newspapers come in sections, couldn't she just have put the sheets away from each other
Is that cruel or what ?
nice Job! I couldnt think of the answer
i dont get it
How Evil
STOP USING OLD BRAINTEASERS!!!
Everyone does this. It is extremely annoying.
Everyone does this. It is extremely annoying.
Cute teaser! I did this a few time when My kids were little!
Can't one son just open the door???
You need to somehow specify that the paper is all folded together or else the more obvious solution is that is spread out so that they are some distance apart.
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