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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
Johny, Jack and Jose are sitting in a bar on a cold winter night. Jose starts getting a little braggadocious and states that he has ten thousand dollars that says he can hit a golf ball a mile. Jose clarifies that he means a regulation golf ball and driver off of a tee, and Johny and Jack smile and say they'll take that bet.
Jose got his drinking money out of them for the next month. How did he do it?
Jose got his drinking money out of them for the next month. How did he do it?
Hint
They are in a bar in Michigan.Answer
In the dead of winter, Lake Michigan is completely frozen over. Jose teed up the ball on the banks of the lake and hit a perfect drive that would under normal circumstances go 300 to 400 yards. But with almost zero friction of the ice, the ball rolled completely out of sight.Quick Tip: My daddy always told me, "No matter how bizarre the bet may seem, if a man is willing to bet his money that he can do something, he probably can!"
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My answer was that he drove it off a cliff. The altitude required would be consistant with the cold weather.
good teaser, and good quote, your dad was a very wise man.
great teaser... your hint threw me off even more though
that's a really good one it's hard to guess
This sounds like a good one to try=) Although I'm a bit concerned that he spend $10,000 on drinks in just one month!
or maybe he hit it down a downhill road?
My Science teacher told me that one, good tip though!
i did some math, turns out JOse is going do spend $33 on drinks a day. And he's still going to have $10 leftover. God he's going to be drunk!
Jun 07, 2002
Good teaser. My answer was that 'a ball a mile' could mean per mile, so he could just walk 2 miles hitting the ball every mile.
I thought it was a play on words, and they hired a "driver" to "drive" the ball off of the tee and then take it for a mile long ride. Don't ask... my mind works in strange ways
I thought he would hit the ball out of a plane or off a steep mountain, letting gravity take it down a mile.
If there's one bad golf bet teaser, I haven't heard it!
yet another person who got it wrong. I thought that as it did not state in the question that he would hit the ball 1 mile with one hit, he would just hit it loads of times.
So Lake Michigan slopes downhill does it? So that's why they don't need a boat to go water skiing in summer.
Loved it
doesn't he get $20,000 dollars as it's $10,000 from each of them?
i also thought it was hit it off of a cliff.
i also thought it was hit it off of a cliff.
Good teaser,I thought it would be off a high cliff or something. Good quote too, It reminded me of Guys and Dolls.
i thought he hit the golf ball off of a mountain
Thanks for the advice!! Great Teaser!!
Wow. First of all, if he lived in MI, there's no doubt he can drink that much.
Secondly, theoretically, yes, there is no friction on the ice, but, there is plenty of snow on the ground before the ice freezes, and, once it does, drifts onto the lake. The ball won't go that far, it will just hit snow and stop.
Trust me.
Secondly, theoretically, yes, there is no friction on the ice, but, there is plenty of snow on the ground before the ice freezes, and, once it does, drifts onto the lake. The ball won't go that far, it will just hit snow and stop.
Trust me.
I thought a cliff too
i thought that he could hit it down the mountain
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