lateral thinking

lateral thinking
These are great. Get your thinking cap on! Try these to loosen up the
old
brain cells.


1. There is a man who 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?


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 but
somehow
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. How?


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 that 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 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?


8. 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 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.


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