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The Canceled Train
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
100 people were waiting for a train in a train station.
When the announcer said the train got canceled everybody left except for four people. Even though those people did not have any medical problems, were able to move, and heard the announcer talk, they did not leave.
Why did they not leave the station?
When the announcer said the train got canceled everybody left except for four people. Even though those people did not have any medical problems, were able to move, and heard the announcer talk, they did not leave.
Why did they not leave the station?
Hint
The four people only knew English.Answer
The train station is in China. The announcer said the train was canceled in Chinese so everyone left except the four people who only knew English and did not know Chinese.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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That was easy after I read the hint
I didn't look at the hint, but thought the answer was four of the people were porters waiting to help with luggage. They worked at the station and waited for all the trains.
or they could have been homeless.
that was weak, of coarse it is in another language. That was dumb.
Hope you liked MY teaser
good, but the hint gave it away.. and how come chinese???
Yeah.. I'm with you on the "how come Chinese?" thing.. I thought that they were in a foreign country or one where they didn't know the first language of the country.
BTW Congratulations!! Your teaser just got on the radio in New Zealand!!
BTW Congratulations!! Your teaser just got on the radio in New Zealand!!
It was dumb becos of the china thing and the hint
It was Chinese because I heard a similar brain teaser from someone and thought it was good, but sense I did not want to copy him instead of saying german people and 150 people, I said chinese and 100 people.
Please give me a better fun average.
dumb..........if I were waiting for a train with 99 other people, while in a foreign country, and an announcement was broadcast that made 96 of the people leave, I would not just stand there.
Surely you'd go try to see what was up....and sorry for calling you Surely.
Surely you'd go try to see what was up....and sorry for calling you Surely.
i agree. if 96 peope just left u wouldnt stand their u wuld leave. y chinese? why not just say "in another language" besises u shouldnt copy
Dear mpsmss,
Wewill give you a better fun average when you give us better fun teasers - fair 'nuf?
Wewill give you a better fun average when you give us better fun teasers - fair 'nuf?
im back w/ more to say.. lol.. um.. uh.. its not really that fun.. it reminded of my first trip on a bart train.. scared the hell out of me.. i didn't know what to do.. it was hecka embarrassing.. sorry maybe that was just the factor that just made me give a lower vote?
Did I miss something again? China were did china come from? I really did like this one though.
i think this was pretty good, i thought that only one train was cancelled, the 4 remaining people were waiting for their train, not the canceld one. but then i saw the hint and i was like DUH, y did u make hint that gave it away? ne way, it was a good teaser.
I put that they were in China in the hint box but after it got submitted it did not have the hint.
i think the hint totally gave it away, but it had a good point, good job mpspss, (or whatever ur name is)
have you heard the phrase "when in rome, do as the romans do"??
My bad, I thought they were waiting for another train...oh well. It was pretty good, but I'm sure you could do better, unless this is your first teaser.
at first, i thought the four people were staffs at the station. but when i read the hint, i figured they were in a foreign country. but if 96 people left, i wouldn't just stand there...
Why would you just stand there? You will mind just follow them since you see all of them walking away.
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