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A Baseball Game
The score of a baseball game is four to three, in favor of the home team. It is the bottom of the eighth inning and yet no man on either side has reached second base. How can this be?
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They were both women's teams.Hide Answer Show Answer
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It could also be that nobody has reached second base because all the runs were homeruns and they all pased second base without stopping.
yeah jake, but karin said that not yet one man has REACHED second base, not passed second base. gr8 teaser, but i got it right away...
I like it! Really good. I think I've heard something like that on this website before.........................
I got it and I don't even know what shape the ball is in baseball!
very good..superb thoughtt!
i go with the homerun theory
Great job I loved it! Make more of the baseball trick questions because baseball is my favorite sport.
aaaaaaaaaaa it could be the reds r playin the brewers they both stink
the alternative is that not one man stopped, but three did (the reason it wasn't one is because it was more than one...)
i did guess the women thing though
i did guess the women thing though
Women play softball not baseball.
women can play base ball!its not like a divided country where women cant play baseball!i thought it was really fun and good !Nice one!
Another possible answer is that there are TWO different games, the 4-3 game being the different game from the one where nobody has reached second.
I'm not a woman but. I HAVE PLAYED BASEBALL AND I HAVE 6 TROPHYS AND I KNOW HOW TO PLAY!!!
I don't get it?
ROCK ON!!!!!
HA! Good one! I did not see that coming at all!! Of couse I don't like baseball either, but whatever.....
hilarious
come on! that was not even your best try
man on base in baseball is a term...it doesn't matter whether its a man or woman or little two-year-old playing T-ball!!!
come on! that was not even your best try
man on base in baseball is a term...it doesn't matter whether its a man or woman or little two-year-old playing T-ball!!!
I thought that, since it said "not ONE man" reached second, the answer was simply that three and four men did (respectively). The women's team twist was nice, though, as it highlights some hidden preconceptions we tend to have!
Good one! I got it right away!
RACIST!!!!........i mean.....SEXIST!!!!
Let's see, how many times have I heard that one...
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gosh, im girl and i didnt get thet one. i wondered why they were MEN!!! WHY NOT WOMEN but women were in rhe answer.
I got it wrong, mostly because I don't pay attention to sports!
at first i thought the same thing as Jake but then i remembered it was in the trick category so i got it
great teaser!
great teaser!
Pretty simple unless you're narrow-minded but I've heard it before.... was still a good teaser
I got it after a few moments. It was a good teaser, I liked it
second base...huh.......
Yeah, I got MORE than one man got to second base. But, your answer, I think, works better.
that was good i thought they always skip 2nd base lol
this i know for a fact is a duplicate!!!!!!!!
i know this one.
my one is that not a single man passed the home base. they were all married.
my one is that not a single man passed the home base. they were all married.
What if everyone hit home runs? Would that count as not touching second base??? I don't know, but it still was pretty cool.
In order to score on a home run you have to tag all of the bases. Otherwise you would be out and there would be no score. Therefore it couldn't be homeruns.
Thank you! At least one other person here knows the rules of base-ball! Of course it couldnt be home runs because a home run just means that you hit the ball far enough that you can run all the way around the bases without getting tagged out. By the way, I liked the married men idea! Very creative/
wouldn't it make it softball?
Hatguy, lots of girls DO play baseball (I have a friend who did, and she was GOOD )
Not all girls play softball (which isn't as soft as you probably think)
This was really gr8, I laughed when I read the answer
Not all girls play softball (which isn't as soft as you probably think)
This was really gr8, I laughed when I read the answer
Hello? Women only play softball, where they can only throw underhanded.
Therefor the only answer to this is the homerun theory, which was my 1st instinct.
Therefor the only answer to this is the homerun theory, which was my 1st instinct.
Nice Trick got it right tho
Umm... Wats Baseball? Just jokin!
sunshinegerl women played PRO baseball when WORLD WAR II happened!
Really good one
Funny
A lot of people use the "No Man Has" thing with teasers. Good teaser though!
Isn't it a coincidence that all of the people trying to come up with alternate answers are male? Stop being stupid and start realing that girlz rule!
EASYY.. nice play of words tho (:
Another answer, is that it was a boys team. Or girls team. Or gentlemen team. HAR HAR HAR
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