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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
She lost her job when she invited them to dinner. How come?
Answer
Let's say "she" is named Suzy, and "they" are named Harry and Jane. Harry is an elderly archaeologist who has found a very old skeleton, which he's dubbed "Jane". Suzy is a buyer for a museum; she's supposed to make some sort of purchase from Harry, so she invites him to have a business dinner with her (at a restaurant). When she calls to invite him, he keeps talking about "Jane," so Suzy assumes that Jane is his wife and says to bring her along. Harry, offended, calls Suzy's boss and complains; since Suzy should've known who Jane was, she gets fired.Hide Answer Show Answer
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huh??? This one has gone way beyond a joke. Could someone give me a few megs of space so I could comment on exactly why this is the most pathetic Situation teaser I've come across so far.
That was pretty bad. Too much info in the answer and it didn't even make sense.
a five year old who sometimes sits with me while I 'braingle came up with a much better answer. she was a school dinner lady and they were school head teacher and deputy. Have you tasted school dinners?
Why do you criticize this? It's wackiness makes it a great situation puzzle! A situation puzzle as it says is not meant to be so easy you can get the answer! Good job and don't listen to these guys.
Andy as I said on the message boards (and to you others) this is what a situation puzzle is MEANT to be like. They only work if you solve them as suggested, with one person knowing the answer. Good teaser I say.
and here I was thinking it was harassment or something
Yes? Someone said my name?
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A situation teaser should contain some kind of hidden meaning so that what originally sounds like it could have almost any answer turns out to have one really obvious answer that everyone agrees makese sense, but didn't think of at first. Unfortunately, very few of theses puzzles are anything more than random explanations that could be replaced with a thousand others that make no more sense than the other 999. If you've read the situation with the guy who is bakrupt after parking outside a hotel, you'll instantly know what I mean about a good situation teaser (unlike this one)!
i don't understand this at all. i'm completely confused.
I beg to differ with some of the early posters. If there are any number of /more/ logical (and just plain better) answers, than it stands to reason that it is a bad teaser. Especially if NO ONE gets it. NO ONE AT ALL.
It's a good teaser - but there is absolutely no clues given - it could have been anything.
Again, this is not a teaser. It's a fill in the blank. Any answer will do as long as it ends with "her" losing her job.
Ever seen the one "The music stopped and he died." Thats the whole teaser, sorry, it's just bad. When you can ask the question in one breath, but you need a college lecture course to explain the answer, consider revision.
No Situation teaser should require that much explanation!
This is a dumb brain teaser. You should have been much more descriptive. I bet only like 1 or 2 people got this on their first try.
Guess i still don't understand this one. Sorry.
this one's a bit confusing...
the answer should have something to do with the situation you set up.
FANTASTIC I LOOOOOVE IT. thx for a gr8 teaser
There are billions of possible answer to this. I don't want to sound harsh but really this teaser is not my favourites.
This is just getting stupid. So basically the top-rated(in terms of difficulty) situation teasers aren't even teasers but just messed-up questions with non-contextual answers. I agree with jimbo. People need to understand wat situation teasers are supposed to be like.
Awful, sorry but that was awful
This sucked megadick.
Maybe it would better if the question wasn't too vague, e.g. "Why was a museum buyer fired for inviting an archeologist to dinner?".
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