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Himalayan Bus Ride
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
There was a public bus travelling through the roads of the Himalayan region. There, suddenly, the bus stopped and three people came out of the bus. Then the bus started again and went on. A few minutes later, when the bus was just within the sight of the three people it had left, an earthquake occurred which resulted in a huge rock breaking from a mountain and falling straight into the bus. The bus exploded and everyone in it died. The three people, after seeing the whole incident, exclaimed in sorrow, "Oh! If only we had not stopped!" Why did they give such a reaction?
Answer
The three people thought that if they had not stopped, there wouldn't have been any start - stop delay of the bus. Thus, the bus would have crossed the area quicker, before the earthquake and hitting of the rock, and so all the people and bus would have been safe.Hide Answer Show Answer
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cool
thanks mad-ade
kinda 2 ez.
ditto, drunky. Got it first time.
This is not so much a teaser as a philosophical question to be considered. Does everything we do in life have consequences no matter how small that make changes to our life situation resulting in outcomes of enormous effects? It is a point worth pondering.
Uh, I'm not sure that a bus could 'explode'. In what manner do you mean by explode?
where have i heard this before?
ez but
oh I thought they were like criminals being dropped off to a prison and they would have rather died than been in prison
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