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You are in a large room with only one usable exit, but there are two lions guarding that doorway. Your only useful resources are the trio of books you're carrying and your own creative mind. Fortunately, the lions are currently facing away from you, and there is a large desk behind which you could crouch.
How do you get out safely?
How do you get out safely?
Answer
Have the librarian check out the books. Make sure you rub the nose of at least one of the leonine statues on the way out, just for good luck.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Very cute, but easy for me (I've had my morning coffee at this point). Excellent teaser, and quite funny!
forgot it was trick
Still confusing!
you got me good,
Haha that was great! That's definitely going in my favorites.
You got me! I also forgot it was a trick!
If the books are big enough and you have good aim, you could just Clonk them in the back of the head and leave
I dont get it! can someone explain?
You didn't say there was another person!
Ha ha ha!!! Good one!! I liked it!
Reminds me of China. They always have stone lions guarding doors xD
Nice.
Nice.
The New York City Public Library no doubt. Good One.
Took a while, but creative.
Not as sharp as it may appear - whilst we often make the mistake of anthropomorphising inanimate objects, stone lions CANNOT be guarding a doorway or anything else for that matter!
Good teaser though, should just say that the lions are stnading at the door for correctness...
Good teaser though, should just say that the lions are stnading at the door for correctness...
i thought that there were 2 exits. the one with the lions wasnt usable so...
ohhhh ok
i didnt get it at first but i get it now
i didnt get it at first but i get it now
Very Nice! I had to double think it!
love it
I liked it, but I don't get it. Clever, though.
i thought it was you just walk out because it doesn't say they are going to attack you or anything... but the actual answer fits more into the "trick" category i think
I thought it was going to be something CHESS related...with the lions being the knights (since they're facing away from you...they are on your team, so to escape you just move!
Very good. I get it now.
I was bored so I thought you were going to throw the books at the lions. LOL. Good teaser
LoL! Good one! It gets full stars from me!
Great teaser!
... couldn't you have just waited for the lions to go to sleep and then walked out?
good one.
I thought the doorway was just a doorway, and the exit is someplace else.
I thought the doorway was just a doorway, and the exit is someplace else.
Wouldn't there be other useful resources in the library? Otherwise, good teaser.
Great one! Was thinking about all those trick scenes where to escape you have to use a very common way like, what, walk out of the door? Never thought that it would be one where the room was really a library
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