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Island in Maine
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
You are taking a vacation on an island in the middle of a lake. The lake is in a remote part of Maine and there has never been a bridge connecting the island to the land. Every day a tractor and wagon gives hay rides around the island to all the children. Puzzled as to how the tractor had gotten onto the island, you ask around and find out that the tractor was not transported to the island by boat or by air. Nor was it built on the island. The island has always been there. Explain how the tractor may have gotten there.
Answer
It's Maine!The water froze for the winter and the tractor was driven to the island on the ice.
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You had to really think. Great job
Kinda need to know a lot of climate and geography etc in Maine - does it not also depend on the size of the lake if it freezes or not?
Lotsa weird things happen in Maine. I blame it on Steven King's residency.
I thought that it was a really dry summer so the water dried up and they brought the tractor over then it rained and the rain turned into the lake.
Good teaser nevertheless.
Maine Rules!!!
Good teaser nevertheless.
Maine Rules!!!
Could a moose have plowed it?
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