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**mahsa88** · 11-08-2006, 05:28 AM

uhh lol i feel dumb! i only got 2 rite!! thats no.5 and 11

**Khorsheed** · 11-08-2006, 06:05 AM

God.. i dont know if i can do it ..
takes alot of thinking .. and thinking is what i dont want to do in the moment ?

**mahsa88** · 11-08-2006, 06:07 AM

lol khorsheed just do it!!! itz nt that bad...u jst mite feel abit dumb afterwards, jst like how i did!!!

**golgol85** · 11-08-2006, 01:18 PM

that was fun!

I am not going to say i got a whole bunch right, but it was fun trying

**indian_blues** · 11-09-2006, 05:52 AM

hi friends try this...

Some Classic Lateral Thinking Exercises....

1. There is a man that lives on the top floor of a very tall building.
Everyday he gets the elevator down to the ground floor to leave the
building to go to work. Upon returning from work though, he can only travel
half way up in the lift and has to walk the rest of the way unless it's
raining! WHY? This is probably the best known and most celebrated of all
lateral thinking puzzles. It is a true classic. Although there are many
possible solutions which fit the initial conditions, only the canonical
answer is truly satisfying.

2. A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies on the scene,
but the child is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives the
surgeon says "I can't operate on this boy, he is my son!" How can this be?

3. A man is wearing black. Black shoes, socks, trousers, jumper, gloves and
balaclava. He is walking down a black street with all the
street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with its light off too
but some how manages to stop in time. How did the driver see the man?

4. One day Kerry celebrated her birthday. Two days later her older twin
brother, Terry, celebrated his birthday. Why?

5. Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square ones? This is
logical rather than lateral, but it is a good puzzle which
can be solved by lateral thinking techniques. It is supposedly used by a
very well-known software company as an interview question for prospective
employees.

6. A man went to a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early.
Everyone else at the party who drank the punch subsequently died of
poisoning. Why did the man not die?

7. A man died and went to Heaven. There were thousands of other people
there. They were all naked and all looked as they did at the age of 21. He
looked around to see if there was anyone he recognized. He saw a couple
and he knew immediately that they were Adam and Eve. How did he know?

8. A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of
the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?

9. A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of water. The
barman pulls out a gun and points it at the man. The man says 'Thank you'
and walks out. This puzzle has claims to be the best of the genre. It is
simple in its statement, absolutely baffling and yet with a completely
satisfying solution. Most people struggle very hard to solve this one yet
they like the answer
when they hear it or have the satisfaction of figuring it out.

**indian_blues** · 11-09-2006, 05:53 AM

i will post answer tomorrow...

...if u know the answers pls post them.

**indian_blues** · 11-10-2006, 12:24 AM

not even a guess....ok here are the answers

SOLUTIONS:
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1. The man is very very short and so can only reach half way up the lift
buttons! However, if it is raining then he will have his umbrella
with him and so can press the higher buttons with it.

2. The surgeon is the boy's mother.

3. It was day time.

4. At the time she went into labor, the mother of the twins was traveling by
boat. The older twin, Terry, was born first early on
March 1st. The boat then crossed a time zone and Kerry, the younger twin,
was born on February the 28th. Therefore, the younger twin celebrates her
birthday two days before her older brother.

5. A square manhole cover can be turned and dropped down the diagonal of
the manhole. A round manhole cannot be dropped down the manhole. So for
safety and practicality, all manhole covers should be round.

6. The poison in the punch came from the ice cubes. When the man drank the
punch, the ice was fully frozen. Gradually it melted, poisoning the punch.

7. He recognized Adam and Eve as the only people without navels. because
they were not born of women, they had never had umbilical cords and
therefore they never had navels.This one seems perfectly logical but it can
sometimes spark fierce theological arguments.

8. They were two of a set of triplets (or quadruplets etc.) This puzzle
stumps many people. They try outlandish solutions involving
test-tube babies or surrogate mothers. Why does the brain search for complex
solutions when there is a much simpler one available?

9. The man had hiccups. The barman recognized this from his speech and drew
the gun in order to give him a shock. It worked and cured the hiccups-so
the man no longer needed the water. This is a simple puzzle to state but a
difficult one to solve. It is a perfect example of a seemingly irrational
and incongruous situation having a simple and complete explanation.
Amazingly this classic
puzzle seems to work in different cultures and languages.

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