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The Sailor's Bet
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
On a ship, a wimpy, small man makes a bet with the other sailors that he will exit the ship with a beautiful woman on each arm. Sure enough, he won the bet. How did he do it?
Hint
They didn't allow women to sail on ships during the days this took place.Answer
He had a woman tattooed on each arm!Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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Made me think a bit.
good job dolphin.
i think it was only a few months ago you turned in your first teaser.
great job!
i think it was only a few months ago you turned in your first teaser.
great job!
it was super clever!
i hope to get a tattoo of one of my ponies soon!
i hope to get a tattoo of one of my ponies soon!
Nice Job. Easy and fun.
Yeah it took me a whole second and a half to get this one....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PONYZ.You are so mean laura, i am serious. that is really harsh.didnt your mom tell you if you can't say anything nice dont say anything at all? that is to mean to say on here. this a family website. . gosh people are so mean today.
I agree...Laura that was uncalled for...You should learn to be nice!! Anyway,Great teaser....I took me a couple minutes to get it it was still fun thou!
FUNNY.
Laura evidently takes pleasure in ridiculing other people's teasers. I've seen other rude comments by her. I don't listen. Thank you those who criticize constructively.
Fun thanks for the teaser.
I don't like tattoos, but these were funny! Good one!
This one is really funny!
I loved it, didn't get it, but loved it!!
I didn't get that one. but it did make sense. so 10/10.
Kinda felt dumb but nice one!!
I didn't get this one, it totally stumped me! good teaser though!
The answer made me laugh. Pretty cool teaser!
i thought that when they pulled up to shore he stayed on the ship and did something to get arrested and 2 female police officers saw and took him off to jail. But ur answer works too.
Fun teaser! At first I thought they could be his daughters or his sisters, until I read the hint. Then I got the tattoo answer!
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