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The French Speaker
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
One man went into work one day and spoke all French. He didn't get any weird looks and everybody understood him. It was a perfectly normal day. Why?
Answer
He was in France!Hide Answer Show Answer
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It is entirely bboorriinngg............
i agree with the above, and what if the person reading this is actually in france? thens its wicked easy...
what im trying to say is that this site isnt a one country site... many different people from many different places go here
that was way too easy . sorry
Don't let their comments make you mad. I liked it!
jn, dont worry
i enjoy easy teasers and everyone have different opinions =)
its a good one
i enjoy easy teasers and everyone have different opinions =)
its a good one
i thought it was interesting,if a little easy
So easy, it was almost stupid. A better answer would have been that he was a French teacher or something, I don't know.
What's the opposite of an AHA! moment? Perhaps a DUH! moment? Or, if you're a Simpsons fan, a DOH! moment? Whatever you call the opposite of an AHA! moment, this teaser produced one. Perhaps if the answer had been, "He was in Quebec," or "He was in Senegal," or even "He wasthe French Ambassador to Haiti," you might have had a passable teaser,but as it stands - WAAAAY too easy.
real easy.srry
Way to easy....so easy it was almost hard
I liked it.
It was way to easy.And it must have been easy if I could figure it out.
cute!
Fun, but a little too easy
It was ok
that was the best one ive seen all day, hahahahaahaha, that was good!
thanks
That was ok, but very simple. oh well don't pay attention to the mean comments
anyone who overthinks things would never get it...
It was really easy, but it was kinda fun.
soz 'bout this comment but it was fun but boring at the same time, and really easy soz
A little too obvious. Good try though. :-)
Apr 17, 2006
way easy, but i was happy i got it!!!!
Way too easy, and pretty boring. Sorry. The second I saw it wasn't a trick question, and saw the word 'French", I instantly thought France. And what do you know, that turned out to be the answer. Too obvious. I think it would've been a better teaser if you said it was in America, and the answer would be like 'he was a French teacher' or something like that. Ah well.
Okay this is an English website, so the submitter could be forgiven to assume that the default language of people here is English. A trickier teaser would be a spanish speaker not getting weird looks...he's an illegal immigrant from Mexico working in walmart...hehehe
I GOT IT I GOT IT!!!!
that was waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy toooooo eaaaaaaaaassy
easy. maybe if you asked "He spoke only french, why did no one ask why?" it would be harder.
that was so stupid that it made me laugh,so i liked it
j'etaime voulez vous?
That was pretty easy, even for me. That's sad.
that was REEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAALLLLLYYYYY easy
but it was still cute
but it was still cute
It was really easy, I got it right away, but still, a really fun teaser. An easy teaser is not a bad one, so dont let the comments about it being bad or boring get you down. Keep up the good work!
What is so wrong with an easy teaser? Either you get it or it gets you...nothing more, nothing less. Beside not everyone here uses the same language; it's not just an English speaking world.
What if he was in Quebec?
tres facile.
i agree with some people.. it was flippin' borrningg and flippin' dumb so flippity flip flip you!!!!
i agree with some people.. it was flippin' borrningg and flippin' dumb so flippity flip flip you!!!!
Jun 12, 2006
I LIKED IT. And what is wrong with all you people? TALK ABOUT RUDE!! ANYWAYS! I thought it was very cute, and for once, i actually understood one of these brain teasers. hehe.
got that one in less than a second.
xofenderxo: anyways is not a word
It was easy but i think it is is nice to have an easy one sometimes.
Nice teaser
Nice teaser
Way to easy. Good try though!
Good Job
Don't forget to send me a message saying what subject you want me to do on a quiz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow! really?!
(sarcasm was used in this comment)
(sarcasm was used in this comment)
ok, easy, very easy. but some people (i am one of these (sometimes)) think out of the box.
Not too well put together. Nice Try.
wow my teasers sucked, if i ever get new ones on here, theyll be better
No kidding.. would never have guessed that...sarcasm...
It should be in trick.
jntrics, don't let ppl get you down.
I thought it was really... my level, if you know what I mean.
I thought it was really... my level, if you know what I mean.
................
Or Canada. I'm from there so that was my first guess.
i got it right way, then figured that couldn't figure out the answer because i thought your answer was so obvious it had to be wrong. very good, but should be under trick, maybe?
I did something similar and got fired.
Too obvious. Still...nice idea.
waaayy too easy... still, you got the gist of the situation teasers right.
The idea is OK but I think it needs some misdirection to keep readers thinking of an English environment. E.g. 'Mr Williams, a partner in the old Boston firm Smith Williams Armstrong and Mortimer, came into the company's office...' with the answer 'He was visiting their Paris office'. Just an example, I'm sure it could be done much more simply.
Easy, but fun too.
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser. I got it very quickly.
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