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Suicide or Not
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 walks into his apartment and find his wife hanging from a rope tied to the ceiling fan. Under her, a chair is lying on its side. He is so upset with her suicide that he kicks the chair. He immediately knows that she was murdered. How does he know?
Answer
When he kicked the chair, it righted itself, and he saw that it was too short for his wife to hang herself with. Therefore, someone had to hang her and then put the chair underneath so anyone else would think it was suicide...Hide Answer Show Answer
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Good one!
very smart! Im too thick to get it tho
How is someone going to get the right answer. There is nothing in the teaser to suggest that the chair was to short.
lol, i like this one
itz kool :p
itz kool :p
That answer was unexpected!
whoa, that was crazy. i must be slow cause i didn't get it. ne1 else goin to the 9th grade?
ok that was just silly how could anyone figure that out and yes I am going into the 9th grade!
Nice one Mad Ade...If there's a bad...haha
Huh?
She must have been very light. Ceiling fans can't support too much weight.
That's a real good 1. After reading scorpio666's comment I thounght maybe you could change the subjuct to math or logic and include the height of the chair, wife, and ceiling fan to make the reader really think. Still, it's a great idea.
Better than most situation teasers. Well done!
I for some strange reason enjoy murder/suicide/something like that teasers.
i thought that when the chair was kicked it fell to pieces, which meant that it couldn't possible have been stable enough for the wife to stand on to commit suicide.
i suppose the actual answer works just as well
i suppose the actual answer works just as well
i thot he had previously hung her, can knocked down the chair, but as he came in from being out, he saw that she was still standing on the chair, and had not died. so, the man kicked the chair far away, and knew that it was murder, cause he did it
That's a great teaser! Fine reasoning there!
You guys, situation teasers are supposed to be where one person knows the answer and the other people ask yes or no questions to guess it. Good teaser! The answer was... unexpected.
great teaser! i got it because i figured she was too short to reach the fan.
Yay, i got it right!!!!!
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