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Two Americans
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
Two Americans met in broad daylight. In the sight of a number of people, one of them shot and killed the other. The killing was deliberate, the killer was not an officer of the law, nor was the victim a criminal. However, no legal action was taken. How come?
Answer
This took place during the American Civil War, or as some prefer to call it, the War Between the States. The principals of our story were a Union soldier and a Confederate soldier.Hide Answer Show Answer
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I've seen this on MindTrap. If you're going to steal a teaser, at least be honest enough to give credit where credit is due.
gosh, and i just thought it was a case of double jeopardy!
THIS WAS RATED HARD BUT IT WAS EASY
What did you mean by "the principle of OUR story"??? is there more than one of you warrior??.... ....good one though
Um, this could be anything dealing w/modern times with a country that had a civil war(spain, US, Japan during shogun wars etc.), since dates are not clearly given and one more thing what about those blasted yankees! Call it by the truth, War of Northern Aggression!
It could have been a duel.
i AIN'T AMERICAN...*growls* "GRR..."
There was quite a bit of legal action in the reconstruction period, maybe you should say there was no legal action taken against either man.
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