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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
In a library, a man casually takes a book off the shelf, opens it, and starts flipping the pages from the right to the left. As he's flipping the pages, he notices that the page numbers are decreasing. How can this be?
Hint
There is nothing wrong with or unusual about the book, and it is written in English.Answer
The book is upside down. It was already upside down when he took it off the shelf. The page numbers are therefore upside down as well, but he can still read them.Try it for real if you doubt that this is plausible.
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