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Mystery 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
It is midnight in Brainville, New York, as Deadeye is watching TV. The show finishes and he gets up to look out the window. He is surprised to see that it is perfectly bright out and he can see everything in his yard! How can this be, if there were no artificial lights involved, and Deadeye himself did nothing to bring on this light?
Hint
Mother nature is at hand.Answer
When Deadeye got up to look out of his window, he saw light as the result of a bolt of lightning!Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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awesome but not challengeing
He could have at least mentioned that it was storming.
deadeye hah! good taeser but not good.....
Why was he suprised to see lighting during a storm?
Aug 19, 2005
it wa kinda dull i didnt even think .
i thought it was that he wasn't in new york but on the other side of the world......
....wat if it was full moon, very bright full moon that u c at dark. brighter than the sun
not so good
I figured Deadeye was watching TV in Hong Kong or something since it didn't really say where he was watching TV .. but this answer didn't strike me (luckily) It was, however, kind of shocking!
Daft! A stroke of lightning doesn't last long enough to see anything.
I thought of a full moon! Lightening never even entered my mind....good thing it didn't, I need all the brains I have and I don't really think I want to try "shock treatment".
i also thought that he was watching tv ion the other side of the world, it didnt say where he was watching tv.
an impending asteroid which was burning up so quickly it lit up the sky like the sun
I GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it was good teaser but the clue gave it away
i thought it was a difference in time zones and he was on the opposite side of the globe than ny..
i thought it was a solar eclipse. and it is not nice to be mean,.so wta it wa snot challenging?
Lol I thought it was the northern or southern lights. Great Teaser!
at first i thought that it he was watching tv in another time zone or something, then i saw the part where he "finishes the show" what if the show was like five hours long...
that makes more sense than lightning, you can't really see things by the lightning, and you'd be more suppressed to see that its like 5 o'clock than see lightning...
that makes more sense than lightning, you can't really see things by the lightning, and you'd be more suppressed to see that its like 5 o'clock than see lightning...
Started watching TV at midnight but the show finished at sawn!
dawn!
well technically you never said he acutally LIVED in New York, so he could have been in China or something where it would be day time
I was thinking of time zones too!
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