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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
A man and his wife were in a boat in the middle of a lake when suddenly the wife fell overboard and quickly sank. The man dove in and tried to find her, to no avail.
Two weeks after the funeral, the man decided to go to the lake to try to make peace with his situation. He wanted to be alone, but he soon found himself in a conversation with an old-timer who was fishing. As an act of politeness, he asked the old-timer how the fishing was, and the response was as follows:
"Well, son, I'm a big bass fisherman but I never seem to have any luck in this lake. I think that it's because I honed my fishing skills by fishing weed beds, and this lake has absolutely no weeds at all. I see other fisherman pull fish out of here using worms as bait, but as far as I'm concerned, worms are for amateurs. Any yahoo can catch a fish using live bait."
The man gave the old-timer a polite good-bye, and then went home and killed himself. Why?
Two weeks after the funeral, the man decided to go to the lake to try to make peace with his situation. He wanted to be alone, but he soon found himself in a conversation with an old-timer who was fishing. As an act of politeness, he asked the old-timer how the fishing was, and the response was as follows:
"Well, son, I'm a big bass fisherman but I never seem to have any luck in this lake. I think that it's because I honed my fishing skills by fishing weed beds, and this lake has absolutely no weeds at all. I see other fisherman pull fish out of here using worms as bait, but as far as I'm concerned, worms are for amateurs. Any yahoo can catch a fish using live bait."
The man gave the old-timer a polite good-bye, and then went home and killed himself. Why?
Hint
His wife was a real beauty: big brown eyes, long flowing hair, and a smile that would light up a room.Answer
While the man was swimming around trying to find his wife, he touched what he thought was a patch of underwater weeds. After finding out that the lake was weedless, he came to the realization that what he actually had touched was his wife's hair. He couldn't live with the knowledge that he had actually found her in time to save her.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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nice teaser, but im going to have nightmares.
ScArY!!!But seriously that was a good one :-()
quite disturbing, though that doesn't take away from the teaser.
yeah, i'm scared.
yeah, i'm scared.
it didnt say in the teaser that he found seaweed in the water
aww thats so sad but a good teaser none the less...
*shudders*
hmm...this was very interesting. but i wonder why he couldn't see her? or if he really did touch her hair, why was that the only "weed"? He would've found more weed than that.
OK, there wasn't enought info in the story to come up w/ a proper conclusion, and it was way too disturbing at that. Can't you come up w/ something a little lighter???
that freaked me out i think i'm gonna cry...
ok im realy scared
what did the hint have to do with it?
when i read about the weeds i thought that the man had killed the wife, and was claiming that her body had gotten caught in the weeds so he couldn't save her, when he found out that the fact that the lake had no weeds was well known he committed suicide rather than wait for the police to come knocking...
when i read about the weeds i thought that the man had killed the wife, and was claiming that her body had gotten caught in the weeds so he couldn't save her, when he found out that the fact that the lake had no weeds was well known he committed suicide rather than wait for the police to come knocking...
woa, chilling. good one though
That is freaky
great teaser. really freaky though! how did u come up with this teaser?
The answer was really chilling. I really like this teaser, I'll make my favorite. I really like your other teasers to.
I thought that he was just sad. Whoops!
how sad This teaser si well thought out and everything but its chilling and scary i wont be looking at your other teasers, i wouldn't dare
^theres too many to look at anyway i didnt realise you had the most teasers on the site
wow great job, very sad and chilling!
This was a really sad one. Not as a teaser, but the story was sad.
thats disturbing
SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!
So sad!
Great teaser, by the way!
Great teaser, by the way!
o my gosh. i am SO freaked out! and his poor poor poor wife!
jeez, this is a great teaser, but can u please make it about something else? that is going to haunt me...
That was a really good but sad teaser! Nice job!
cool teaser, but disturbing.
nice job......
Sad teaser
Good & sad teaser.
This one chills me!
Lateral thinking puzzles, sometimes called situation puzzles, typically involve a situation which requires some kind of explanation or answer. There is usually insufficient information to solve the problem at first sight so the solver has to ask questions or propose solutions. The best lateral thinking puzzles are intriguing and seemingly illogical yet have a satisfying answer.
I thought that the man realized that his inability to find his wife was actually because she had swum away, in order to leave him, and he killed himself because of sorrow.
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