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Lateral Thinking Puzzles Explained

The document contains a collection of lateral thinking puzzles and riddles. It includes puzzles about a woman taking an elevator, a green house being made of glass, survivors of a plane crash, and determining which light switch is connected to which bulb without entering the room multiple times. The puzzles require thinking creatively and from different perspectives to arrive at the answers.

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Lateral Thinking Puzzles Explained

The document contains a collection of lateral thinking puzzles and riddles. It includes puzzles about a woman taking an elevator, a green house being made of glass, survivors of a plane crash, and determining which light switch is connected to which bulb without entering the room multiple times. The puzzles require thinking creatively and from different perspectives to arrive at the answers.

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LATERAL THINKING

to look at a problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on.

A man built a rectangular house, each side having a southern view. He spotted a bear. What colour was the bear?
White. Only at the North Pole can all four walls be facing South.

Which side of a cat contains the most hair?


The outside

A woman lives on the tenth floor of a block of flats. Every morning she takes the lift down to the ground floor and goes to work. In the evening, she gets into the lift, and, if there is someone else in the lift she goes back to her floor directly. Otherwise, she goes to the eighth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to her flat. How do you explain this?

The woman is very short and can not reach higher then the eight-floor button

If a red house is made of red bricks, and a blue house is made of blue bricks, what is a green house made of?
glass

If a plane crashes on the Italian/Swiss border, where do you bury the survivors?
You dont bury survivors.

John's mother has 3 children, one is named April, one is named May. What is the third one named?

John

How could a baby fall out of a twenty-story building onto the ground and live?
The baby fell out of the ground floor window

There are six eggs in the basket. Six people each take one of the eggs. How can it be that one egg is left in the basket?
The last person took the basket with the last egg still inside.

How can you throw a ball as hard as you can so that it comes back to you?
Throw the ball vertically in the air

A man and his son were in a car accident. The man was killed but the son was rushed to the emergency ward. The Doctor on call took one look at the boy and exclaimed "I can't operate on this boy. He's my son". How is this true?

The doctor was the boys mother.

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice all live in the same house. Bob and Carol go out to a movie, and when they return, Alice is lying dead on the floor in a puddle of water and glass. It is obvious that Ted killed her but Ted is not prosecuted or severely punished.

Ted is a cat and Alice is a goldfish

Three switches outside a windowless room are connected to three light bulbs inside the room. How can you determine which switch is connected to which bulb if you may enter the room only once?
Switch one light on for one minute, then turn it of. Turn on another one. Now go into the room and feel which one is still warm.

A man is lying dead in a field. Next to him there is an unopened package. There is no other creature in the field. How did he die?
The man jumped from an airplane. The package is his parachute which did not open.

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? They are not twins, but triplets

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