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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
The teacher gave Ben and Jerry a written test. Ben read the test, then folded his arms and answered none of the questions. Jerry carefully wrote out good answers to the questions. When the time was up, Ben handed in a blank sheet of paper while Jerry handed in his work. The teacher gave Ben an A and Jerry an F. Why?
Answer
In the directions, the teacher told them to do absolutely nothing, to see if they read the directions to the end.Hide Answer Show Answer
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I thought you say Jerry wrote out good answer which i assume answer that is appropriate to the question.
i got this one right!
This test actually exists.. My mother used it teaching a highschool english class.
My teachers used that on us
I would hate to have that teacher.
something like that has actually happened in my class.
i new that answer!! i've seen it in tv before!
Likewise, our class was tricked the same way. Nice
I've seen a version of this test, but mine said to read all the questions before answering, and the last question said don't do any of the questions, so if it said in the directions not to do it, I would have liked it better.
I had a teacher give me that test too....thank god I'm a speed reader and read the whole test
yeah i saw that test on this one site
i did nothing but read the directions. DID YOU?
i did nothing but read the directions. DID YOU?
my teacher gave me one of these in fifth grade and i was fooled. then in sixth grade another teacher gave me the same thing so i knew what to do
Good one!
our class had to do it. It was really funny everytime someone shouted something out
good one
good one, but cliche
Oh yeah my teacher gave my class that test. I was the only one who got it. Yay me.
i always read everything first anyway
lol, my teacher gave us that test, but luckily didn't give us a REAL grade.
I thought that the teacher had accidently given them each others sheet.
Not very likely their names would already be written on them but...
Not very likely their names would already be written on them but...
Yeah my PE teachers made this "exam" where you had to do a ton of pushups and running like the whole class, but it said not to do any of them near the end of the directions.
I've actually heard of a college/high school test or something like this, so thats how I figured it out. Good teaser!
I've actually heard of a college/high school test or something like this, so thats how I figured it out. Good teaser!
My fifth grade teacher gave us this one coloring one, but it wasn't really graded.
I've seen one of those. The first direction is to not do anything until you read all the directions...the last direction is to not answer anything. Great teaser!
boring!!! i h8 school but it was hard,i give u credit for that(if u want to count that as credit) LOL
Now I want ice cream!!!!
I had a teacher who did a version of this test which involved doing absurd things like hopping up and down and doing push-ups. That way those of us who read the directions just got to sit there and watch all the other idiots. =D
A teacher told me about a test like this.
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