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Imprisonment
There once was a man, who was innocent, who was sent to prison, and was to die the next day by beheading. His cell was stone with a dirt floor, and a heavy wooden door that couldn't be opened from the inside. There was a window 15 feet high, but he could not climb the wall. He tried to tunnel out, but the wall went too far underground, so he abandoned that idea. How did he escape?
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He dug a hole, and piled the dirt that he dug out by the window. He climbed up the pile, and out the window.Hide Answer Show Answer
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great idea.. but is it possible to make a dirt pile to that's hard enough to climb 15 feet without it falling apart...
I agree, surely one man digging that much earth would have taken him longer than one day?
the window had no metal bars?
was just an open window?
was just an open window?
The window was 15ft high, not 15ft up the wall so you just break it and climb through.
I would have never guessed that, because, I agree 15ft. high dirt pile would not seem to be that steady...nor, would the man have been able to do it all in one day. The brainteaser even stated that he had tried other things which all might have taken some time. I could have been more logical if it wasn't so exaggerated.
Why not tunnel under the door. It surely cannot go under the ground or it would not open!
That's a good point physman, I never thought of it that way.
I thought it was just that the people who sent him to jail found out that he was innocent and set him free.
I thought maybe he pretended to be dead so that when they came to behead him, they thought he was dead and would leave the door open to go and get someone to take him away and he could escape.
More "Situation" than "Logic," I think.
duckychic4u, the guards probably wouldn't be dumb enough to leave the gate open, even if he was dead. he might even try just calling 4 some1 else instead of leaving because as already known, doctors have 2 check if some1 is reely dead. also, if he couldn't tunnel out, how far much deeeper did he have 2 dig to make a 15 foot dirt pile? where was he putting the dirt when he tryed tunneling out, where did he put the dirt? how big was his cell? by the way, frank0001h does have a great point.
How come the guards didn't come and check on him?
That man must have been pretty dumb to dig all that dirt. He could have simply dug under the door!
I agree with dewtell, definitely more "situation" than "logic"
maybe you can burn the door because it is wood.
How? (No fire- it would take too long to rub the sticks)
so we're to believe that he was able to dig enough dirt to stack up 15 ft high to get out the window and was still unable to get under the wall....that's a deep wall!!! pretty lame puzzle. could have been any number of things. logic puzzles need to be cut and dry so that logic will deduce the only possible answer. this one failed.
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