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War Stories
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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
Tom, Dick and Harry are swapping war stories. Tom told one about his uncle Fred who had lost his arm during the war. "Uncle Fred met a General who was so shocked that Fred had lost his arm during the war, and had not yet received a medal that he removed one of his own medals and pinned it on Fred's uniform. He then mentioned that had Fred lost both arms, he would have received a commission. Hearing this, Fred withdrew his sword and with one swift stroke he cut off his arm. Shortly after he was appointed Minister of Armaments." Harry laughed and said to Tom, "You are obviously lying." How was Harry so sure?
Answer
If Fred had only one arm it would have been impossible for him to chop off his other arm.Hide Answer Show Answer
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not impossible. grab something like a pe and see if you can reach your shoulder. If someone tried hard enogh they could cut of the arm.
"one swift stroke" it'd be very hard to chop of your arm using your arm easily.
It would never be one swift stroke, but it could be a clean swipe if he was strong.
It's worse than the Submarine question
Taht was good. I dont know what these other folks are talking about
If you are willing to believe that Fred would cut off his arm for a commission then you are probably willing to accept that he held the sword with his foot..mouth..armpit...groin...
Apr 14, 2003
this one is from a book! whay a lack of effort!
Really easy but nice.
I laughed really hard imagining a man trying to cut off his arm that way........
Also he would not have been able to finish the cut since as soon as he cut through the nerves in his arm the arm would go limp and he couldn't follow through with it....
actually you could cut off your arm with that arm, it would just be hard
Just throw it up into the air and hope it comes down with tremendous forec.
force*
Easy but cute
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