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A Shooting at Midnight
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 man walks into his back yard in the middle of the night and fires a gun. Due to his strange behaviour he never sees another sunrise. (No, he didn't kill himself.) Can you explain this odd occurrence?
Hint
Did he want to hit his target?Yes.
Answer
The man shot his rooster, which had awakened him with its crowing every morning for the past ten years. Since he had recently retired, there was no longer any reason to be wakened at such an early hour.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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Apr 19, 2004
Okay, nice idea, but not seeing another sunrise has little to do with not having a rooster. Lots of rooster-less people never see sunrises. Still, great effort.
Apr 19, 2004
I agree with CMonkey, although that's the first time I've seen the word rooster as a part of an adjective. CMonkey may deserve mook status, but your teaser was alright.
i thought he shot AT the rooster, missed, and had his eyes pecked out as payback.
or he shoots an intruder, mises, and the intruder kills him
Or the gun powder explodes out of the gun, blinding him...
I thought it was hillarious
or the rooster pecks the cow and makes the man wake up anyways. lol
let me elaborate. working off of bluetwo's answer: he missed, but the rooster gets mad. or the guy... nevermind everything i just said.
This was a really good one, but I got it though. But when I told this to my friends, they thought that he had killed his son, because he never saw another "son" rise.
He shot his rooster?? therefor he did not hear the rooster at sunrise... so he slept in?? probably not the answer, but its a possibility
Clever!
I just can't figure out how editors let teasers as obscure as this through??
I going to have to agree with omega because where in there is no way you can come up with that rooster stuff. I did understand it though. But I guess i didn't like the wording.
weird and funny!
Copycat! I have the book you got this from!!!!!
If he become retire he wants to live longer.
to live longer you must wake up early and be healthy!
so he might still keep that poor rooster!
I dont think he would shot that rooster...he could give to his grandson or someone.
I thought becouse he shot his eye
to live longer you must wake up early and be healthy!
so he might still keep that poor rooster!
I dont think he would shot that rooster...he could give to his grandson or someone.
I thought becouse he shot his eye
Poor rooster, all he did was do his job and look at the thanks he gets.
Great teaser, I thought he blinded himself.
Great teaser, I thought he blinded himself.
i thought he went to jail
Me too
Maybe there should be a part in it that states that he is not blinded, because that's something people usually ask. If this were done in person, that wouldn't be a problem, though. I was thinking maybe he shot down a dead tree or something that obstructed his view of the sun from his angle...
I swear, after teasers like this the only reason *my* teasers should be denied is solely if they're duplicates.
It seems a little mean to kill the poor rooster, but nice teaser nonetheless!
Poor rooster...
wel, maybe he shot somebody ELSE and then got a life sentance in prision, with no windows and therefore never saw the sunrise again. and what if he acidently got up early ONE day? it;s highly unlikely he would of NEVER saw the sun rise again. There is also more then one possible answer.
Gosh.... isn't that animal abuse? Why didn't he just sell the rooster?
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