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Old Coin
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
It's a mistake to hire amateurs, as the archaeologist found to his great distress. One of his new staff came running in one day, all excited. He had just paid a local a great deal of money for an extremely valuable coin. As he said, "I've never seen one like this before, and I've been looking in museums for thirty years. It's a genuine Egyptian coin marked 100 B.C.-solid gold!" The director of the expedition sighed wearily and fired him. Why?
Answer
No authentic coin can be dated B.C. Back when it was happening, no one knew the era would be called B.C.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Ive heard that one b4 but it was still good
Easy! A teacher asked our class that question, and I was the first one to get it (hehehe, I'm a boffin!). Great teaser though!
yup heard that one too.. guess you'd have to be pretty dumb to invent such a lie to an archeologist!
Missie, you need an imagination.
easy but good
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