1st Dec 2011 Lateral Thinking - Fun Puzzles & Tests

10) The Deadly Dish

 

Two men went into a restaurant. They both ordered the same dish from the menu. After they tasted it, one of the men went outside the restaurant and shot himself. Why? 

Solution: 

The dish that the two men ordered was albatross. They had been stranded many years earlier on a desert island. When the man tasted albatross he realized that he had never tasted it before. This meant that the meat he had been given on the island was not albatross as he had been told. He correctly deduced that he had eaten the flesh of his son who had died when they first reached the island. 

This has something in common with No. 9 above but is in my opinion even better. It is fiendishly difficult to figure out from a standing start. A beautiful aspect of this problem is the subtle fact that he shot himself because he did not recognise the taste of the dish!

11) The Realization

 

A man was walking downstairs in a building when he suddenly realized that his wife had just died. How? 

Solution:

The man had visited his wife in hospital. She was on a life-support machine. As he was walking down the stairs all the lights went out. There had been a power cut and the emergency back-up systems had failed. He knew that she had died. 

12) The Blind Beggar

 

A blind beggar had a brother who died. What relation was the blind beggar to the brother who died? (Brother is not the answer). 

Solution:

The blind beggar was the sister of her brother who died. 

This puzzle is one of a type that depends on the listener making implicit assumptions about gender - in this case that a blind beggar is a man. Similar puzzles involve surgeons who refuse to operate on their sons etc. This is probably the best of the class because it is very simply stated and yet which has the power to baffle those who have not heard it before. 

 

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