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The Shooting
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 policeman was arresting a man. He had him on the police car and everything, and just as he was about to put the handcuffs on him, the policeman was shot. However, instead of being punished for killing the policeman and helping the guy being arrested, the man who shot the policeman was REWARDED, and the policeman did survive. Why was he rewarded? How did the policeman survive?
Answer
The policeman had locked up many innocent people the year before. He was arresting the one person who could expose him. Suddenly recognizing the policeman, a nearby man took out his tranquilizer gun and shot the policeman, making it easy for the other policemen to nab him. He was rewarded for helping them catch the bad policeman.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Good one.
Highly unlikely
But Good teaser!
Highly unlikely
But Good teaser!
Hmm, why not just wait for the policeman to get to the station and if that was the one guy that could expose him, howd the guy with the tranquilizer know? Maybe Im just confused but either way it was fun! Full
Just kidding. Although I'm sure that because of the comments to them they knew who I was.
Well if it wasnt for those other editors.... This teaser would've gotten rejected. Thanks guys!
Look: I have a
Look: My brother has a
Look: I'm going to submit another teaser before he does haha... aw man I just told him that now he wants to submit one.....
Well if it wasnt for those other editors.... This teaser would've gotten rejected. Thanks guys!
Look: I have a
Look: My brother has a
Look: I'm going to submit another teaser before he does haha... aw man I just told him that now he wants to submit one.....
Hey! You got a teaser submitted! Good for you! (Now I'm going to make people find your teaser so they can vote on it and you can get a like me...)
Good job, tricks. However, I assure you I am going to beat you to it (submitting a second teaser). MUAHAHA!!!
And one more thing: Good job on making it confusing!
Good job, tricks. However, I assure you I am going to beat you to it (submitting a second teaser). MUAHAHA!!!
And one more thing: Good job on making it confusing!
Good teaser..... I think..
I don't get it...
Well this was hard. I suck at these sorta teasers......
How many teasers have you submitted?
I don't get it...
Well this was hard. I suck at these sorta teasers......
How many teasers have you submitted?
lol every single person in here has the number "2" in there name except for darth...
I have a better answer for your teaser,
The guy that "shot" him?
He was a photographer.
The guy that "shot" him?
He was a photographer.
Stumped me !
good teaser...Trickster1992? u write a lot!!! lol also, is Elucidator92 your brother???? congrats on your first teaser. i actually liked your other answers better than the ones that are up ther. (that's not a bad thing)
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Congrats on your first teaser!
beenice: Yes Elucidator is my brother.
I actually had to wait a month before submitting this teaser, because I wanted to make sure it would get accepted...
And so the Trickster said, "LET THE TEASER BE ACCEPTED." ...And it was!
I actually had to wait a month before submitting this teaser, because I wanted to make sure it would get accepted...
And so the Trickster said, "LET THE TEASER BE ACCEPTED." ...And it was!
Yes, but the truthman's comments can easily be rid of. Not to be mean I'm just saying, don't say mean things or your comment won't be seen by very many people.
-The Trickster never lies! Oh wait then I wouldn't be the trickster...
So was the gut who was being arrested the same guy who shot him?
Great teaser Trick, ignore the bad comments, theyre jus jealous.
i thought the police man got shoot because the criminal
never mind im confused i like this one puzzle in particular because of all the different situations that go threw your head while you read this is my favorite puzzle on this web site.
never mind im confused i like this one puzzle in particular because of all the different situations that go threw your head while you read this is my favorite puzzle on this web site.
I agree with you trick, it is pretty confusing. A better anwer would be that a photographer got a pulitzer prize for taking a "shot" of a policeman arresting Jimmy Hoffa or something
But again, it's not really a situation puzzle. Try Trick instead for one like this.
But again, it's not really a situation puzzle. Try Trick instead for one like this.
didnt see that coming
very very good trick
That was DUM
unsolvable I was'nt even close. I knew the cop was arresting an innocent person....but the rest of it I could have never guessed.
confusing. i thought the anwer was he was a photographer and was rewrded becuse he gets paied for his pictures
Situation Puzzles are not designed to be answered by themselves. The idea is for one person to know the answer and other people in a group to try and guess it using yes or no questions. The first person to get the answer is the winner.
could have been shot by a camra or it was an act.same thing.
could have been shot by a camra or it was an act.same thing.
good teaser....now can you answer why the guy was carrying a tranquiliser[i know i spelt it wrong] with him.
It was hunting season.
I guessed that the answer was that he was shot as in photographed and the man was rewarded money for handing in the photo to the newspaper.
the reason everyone thought it was a photographer is because so many other teasers on this site, especially in this section, have that in their answer.
Great job on the teaser!
Great job on the teaser!
True situeation teaser.
hey this is so cool! i totally would never have guessed it!!
love ya
love ya
That was confusing!!
I like it.
i like it trick. good one!
very interesting
I never thought about that
I never thought about that
Confusing
Nice! I got that it was a tranquilizer gun, but the rest was way beyond me.
Not good. I'm surprised it was accepted. The bar should be a little bit higher, because this is probably the worst one I've seen.
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