Lateral thinking puzzles

[Ally_Kat]

Originally posted by Soul Reaper
-Manhole Covers

Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square ones?

this is a puzzle? This one os so obvious. If they were square, the covers could fall down into the sewer.

[Ally_Kat]

Originally posted by Soul Reaper
-The Realization

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

He's in a hospital and the generators stopped working?

[Ally_Kat]

Originally posted by Soul Reaper
-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).

duh. If it's not brother, it has to be sister

[Ally_Kat]

Originally posted by Soul Reaper
-The Elder Twin

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

hahah Leap year babies! (i actually want one, how sick is that?) Well, maybe they weren't born in a leap year, but the year this questions takes place in is a leap year.

Terry was born and then somehow the mother went into another time zone or crossed the international date line and Kerry was born. In order for this to work, it would have to be Feb 28th and March 1st

[Big Fat Sammy]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
duh. If it's not brother, it has to be sister

Wow

I was losing my mind over this one....so obvious now.

Read my answer above...."Limo Driver"

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
duh. If it's not brother, it has to be sister

yes!

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
hahah Leap year babies! (i actually want one, how sick is that?) Well, maybe they weren't born in a leap year, but the year this questions takes place in is a leap year.

Terry was born and then somehow the mother went into another time zone or crossed the international date line and Kerry was born. In order for this to work, it would have to be Feb 28th and March 1st

correct!

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
He's in a hospital and the generators stopped working?

right!

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
this is a puzzle? This one os so obvious. If they were square, the covers could fall down into the sewer.

yes, it is obvious!

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Big Fat Sammy
She's a spinning ballerina in one of those music box things.

no, definitely not.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by Soul Reaper


The man in the Elevator

A man lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every day he takes the elevator to go down to the ground floor to go to work or to go shopping. When he returns he takes the elevator to the seventh floor and walks up the stairs to reach his apartment on the tenth floor. He hates walking so why does he do it?

Has this one been answered yet?

If not, he is REALLY small and he can't reach any of the higher buttons in the elevator.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
he can't reach the button for the 10th floor cuz he's a mini-me. lol

Oh, it HAS been answered.

I would have got that if I would have looked yesterday.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

How about this one...

There was a man who lived in Birmingham, and he had had rotten year. It had got to the point where he was suicidal. He didn't want his family to know he had killed himself, so he decided to kill himself in the middle of nowhere. So, one cold night in November he travelled into the countryside, and found a deserted building in the middle of nowhere. He went inside to look for something to kill himself with, but there was NOTHING inside. It was COMPLETELY deserted. He was about to leave, when he looked up and saw a rope hanging from the ceiling. He thought it was too perfect, so he tried to reah up and grab it (as Alan The Panther would!) and so as he could wrap it round his neck, but he couldn't reach the rope, and there was nothing around that he could use to climb up.

A month later he was discovered by drifters who had planned to spend that night in the old building. He had eventually found a way to reach up.

How did he do it?

[Big Fat Sammy]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
How about this one...

There was a man who lived in Birmingham, and he had had rotten year. It had got to the point where he was suicidal. He didn't want his family to know he had killed himself, so he decided to kill himself in the middle of nowhere. So, one cold night in November he travelled into the countryside, and found a deserted building in the middle of nowhere. He went inside to look for something to kill himself with, but there was NOTHING inside. It was COMPLETELY deserted. He was about to leave, when he looked up and saw a rope hanging from the ceiling. He thought it was too perfect, so he tried to reah up and grab it (as Alan The Panther would!) and so as he could wrap it round his neck, but he couldn't reach the rope, and there was nothing around that he could use to climb up.

A month later he was discovered by drifters who had planned to spend that night in the old building. He had eventually found a way to reach up.

How did he do it?

If this is a variation on a simalar one already posted...then the answer would be ice...or hay bales that a horse ate after he died! lol

[Big Fat Sammy]

Hey SR...give the answer to the deadly dish one! please!