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Neat Clean Man
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 scientist works with poison. When it is time to eat dinner, he clearly washes his hands! When eating his dinner, he suddenly dies.
How?
How?
Hint
Think of all the steps you take to wash your hands, especially the first and last steps.Answer
When the man turned the handle to turn the water on and off, there was poison on the handle. He died from turning off the sink and thus getting poison back on his hands.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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Um, he choked on the food and dies.
May 19, 2003
I aslo thought he choked. It seems the most believeable answer. Are you saying he eats his dinner with his hands?
The clue would've given it away but
It was an easy one anyway
It was an easy one anyway
Wouldn't he turn off the tap with his elbow like the doctors do?
Thankx for your comments
I thought the the poison might have stained his hands and he licked his fingers afterwards thus sucking on poison and poisoning himself. I also thought he may not have liked the food and committed suicide because he had a frail mental condition.
I thought it was because he forgot to use soap lol
So he doesn't use a fork and knife???
interesting one.
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i thought some of the poison seeped through his hands and it was enough to kill him even though he washed the excess poison that didnt absorb through their skin.
wouldn't he use glooves???
Wouldnt he use chop sticks or knifes and forks?
What a wierd scientist
Wouldnt he use chop sticks or knifes and forks?
What a wierd scientist
he died from the inhalation of the fumes from the poison, but it took time to work through his system, so that he was fine after washing his hands and cooking dinner, but when he sat down to eat it, he died...
*shudders*
fun and very easy
The hint gave it away. Nice teaser.
doesn't he use forks ect.?
So, you're saying he uses his hands to eat?
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