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Honks the Horn
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
A man leaves a motel room, goes into his car, honks the horn, and returns. Why?
Answer
It is the middle of the night. The man goes outside to get something from his car, but forgets which room he is in. His wife is deaf so he honks his car horn, waking everyone up in the hotel. All the other residents, who aren't deaf, wake up and turn on their lights. The man returns to the room with the light remaining off.Hide Answer Show Answer
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he might have broke his watch, and wanted to know the time. By honking his horn, some one would have shouted "Hey Buddy, cut it out, it's 5:30 in the morning" thus giving him the time.
lmao thats a good one made-ade.
this ones good. also a good suggestion, made-ade
Yeah good one - funny too
what is made-ade??
what about the vacant rooms? he'd have to go through all those. and he'd have to be pretty stupid or out of it to not remember which room he came from!
Good one, but there probably could have been more soltions. And I agree, what is a Mad-ade?
I am!
someone must be pretty stupid to forget which room they were in............and plus isnt the service desk open 24/7 so couldnt he go and ask them? lmao mad-ade
hey now... making fun of ppl who have forgetten where there rooms are... i've done it before...
and it's easy at a bigger place... o well... good teaser


he was probably drunk
speaking of being drunk, i bet the drunk people wouldn't have gotten up either!!! =)
what's Imao? Mad-ade's right, plus I liked Mad-ade's glass clinking one!!


Amusing.
A deaf wife.... Guess that would be useful
Why doesn't the moron just look at the number on his room key.
Some wives pretend to be deaf at times.
he could also have been (maybe) talking to car insurance guy or something of that sort and checking that the horn works because he never uses it. no sense. o well.


the man's been getting nicely toasted in his room, drunk as a skunk, he leaves his room, but forgets why, gets in the car thinking it's his room, accidentally hits the horn, realises it's the car, and toddles off back to his room.
I loved it! lol

Haha! Just like that Super Bowl commercial. Though I don't remember what it was for...










Actually the teaser is wrong. Some people(like me) can totally sleep through that. plus why can't the idiot just check his room key.
Yeah, I agree with beyonce123. Besides, even if everybody DID wake up, who turns on their light every time their eyes open??

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