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Suicide or Not
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
A man walks into his apartment and find his wife hanging from a rope tied to the ceiling fan. Under her, a chair is lying on its side. He is so upset with her suicide that he kicks the chair. He immediately knows that she was murdered. How does he know?
Answer
When he kicked the chair, it righted itself, and he saw that it was too short for his wife to hang herself with. Therefore, someone had to hang her and then put the chair underneath so anyone else would think it was suicide...Hide Answer Show Answer
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