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An Avid Birdwatcher
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
An avid birdwatcher sees an unexpected bird. Soon, they're both dead. What happened?
Answer
He is a passenger in an airplane and sees the bird get sucked into an engine at 20,000 feet. The engine stalls, and the plane crashes.Hide Answer Show Answer
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A bird can't fly at 20,000': not enough oxygen! (and the bird wings would not provide lift either...
Too vague. It could have been anything!
Let me apologize! I didn't see the disclaimer about situation puzzles... Had I known that, these would have made a lot more sense. Again, let me retract my criticism!
lmao u do realize most aircraft have more then one engine and can fly if they even lose one rite? lol i'm just saying this cuz it reminds me of a tv show
I thought the 'avid birdwatcher' was an insect or something, and got stuck in the birds throat. Boy I need to work on these!! By the way - I like the answer.
Or the birdwatcher is eating some cheezels and sees a buzzard, suddenly realises that the cheezels are actually ratsak and drops dead. Buzzard eats birdwatcher along with poison and also drops dead. It fits!
Jimbo, you and I must think alike! I was thinking almost the same thing, only he saw the buzzard while he was out in the middle of no where, which means that he is going to die soon, then he had some disease that killed the buzzard. Nice teaser!
How about the birdwatcher sees a helicopter 'bird' heading straight for him. The helo crashes, killing the birdwatcher. The helo is now also 'dead'.
Just a couple of things: first, as has been mentioned, the plane has at least two engines. I say this because of the wording "the bird hits AN engine." If it had been "THE engine," it would indicate just a single engine. (Also, the majority of planes carrying passengers at 20,000 have two or more engines - very few would be single-engine.) Most two-engine planes that have the performance to fly at 20,000 feet are also able to sustain a perhaps lesser altitude with a single engine. Even without any engines, every plane can still glide a respectable distance and have a relatively controlled landing under most circumstances.
I add this to be informative, not to criticize what I think is a good teaser. (Regardless of the details, it still challenges your preconceptions, which is why I like it!)
I add this to be informative, not to criticize what I think is a good teaser. (Regardless of the details, it still challenges your preconceptions, which is why I like it!)
i like jimbo's better.
funnier, too!
funnier, too!
I thought it was a fighter jet and got shot down you know its a plane its a bird
Jul 14, 2008
I can't say about 20,000' but I have seen birds at 14,000 particularly in West Texas and out towards CA. Buzzards particularly can catch a massive thermal and easily go up to 14,000 before they can even get out of it. When I was at Reese AFB in LBB Texas we lost a student to a birdstrike in a T-38. They were doing 400 kts and hit the thing just right, and it came through the windscreen. I was climbing out of El Paso and hit a bird?bat? something in the dead of night about 8,000 and it scared the #$% out of me. Imagine having a quiet conversation in a phone booth and someone suddenly hits the glass in front of your face with a baseball bat.
OH MY GOODNESS POOR BIRD!!!
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