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Robbery
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Difficulty: (1.96)
Puzzle ID: #4217
Submitted By: QtistLilShorTy Corrected By: merrimackxc2010
Submitted By: QtistLilShorTy Corrected By: merrimackxc2010
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 had robbed a bank. The police began to chase him, but while tracing the tracks they suddenly disappeared. All that was left were two parallel lines. How did this happen and what were the lines?
Answer
The thief sat down in a wheelchair and rode away in it. The lines were the marks left by the wheels of the wheelchair.Hide Answer Show Answer
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are you saying 2 pairs of parallel lines, or 2 lines that are parallel? there is a difference, as wheelchair tracks would leave the former. incidentally, either it's a very powerful chair to have left marks on the ground (sic), or it's on dirt (which would make it very easy to follow).
May 30, 2002
I was thinking it might've been snowing and the robber put skis on. Good one!
i thought the robber had jumped on a train as train tracks are parallel!
i thought that he had a getaway car waiting in the middle of the street and climbed over the trunk and into the convertible top.
Where did the whellchair come from??
What tracks? Police don't follow footprints unless they're in snow or dirt. A wheelchair would be pretty useless then.
Or better still put on roller blades (in line skates). More likely to have these up his jumper than a wheel chair!
skis, rollerblades, wheelchair, car...pretty much anything that involves two wheels side by side
Interesting.
I thought he put skis on.
I didn't like this one. It could have been anything on wheels: a car? You didn't describe the parallel lines much. And besides, if there are wheelchair tracks, then that IS tracks, just follow the wheelchair tracks. His tracks didn't "disappear"; they merely turned from footprints to wheelchair tracks.
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