Lateral Thinking Puzzles: Answers He's a midget who can't reach the top buttons in the lift.   It's a melted snowman in the garden.   They're mother and father.   They weren't playing against each other.   The first man put down a £10 note and may have wanted change for a cheaper puppy, the second put down 10 £1 coins so it was assumed he wanted the £10 puppy.   They are goldfish and they died because their bowl was knocked over by the pet dog.   They had no mirror - the dirty one looked at the clean one and assumed her face was clean too, the clean one looked at the dirty one and assumed she must be dirty too.   A towel.   The man who shot himself is the world's smallest man. He used the piece of wood to measure himself. The second smallest man sawed a small piece off the bottom of the stick, so he thought he was growing and would lose the fame and money he had. The second smallest man is now the smallest, and laughs.   The man had hiccups and was cured by the shock.   £1 and £7. 8 cakes shared between 3 means each man gets 2 and 2/3 cakes each. The farmer with 3 cakes gave away 1/3 of a cake and the other gave 2 and 1/3 cakes - seven thirds.   The package is his unopened parachute.   A coffin.   'If I was to ask someone from the other village, which would he say is the path to the cannibal village?' then take it.   It is January 1st, he was 18 yesterday on 31st December, so he will be 20 on 31st December next year.   White. To walk south, east then north the same distance and arrive back at the starting point means you must be at the North Pole.   48 mph! Say the journey is 60 miles, the first part of the trip took 60 minutes, the return took 90 minutes, so the whole trip of 120 miles took 150 minutes. So in one minute he drove 120 ÷ 150 miles ( 0.8 mile per minute ), which is 0.8 x 60 miles per hour (48 mph).   Her father may be much younger than her mother, so her paternal grandmother may in fact be younger than her mother.   The last person takes the box with the last egg in it.   None, the rest fly away when they hear the noise of the gun.   He was playing monopoly.   He'd already put salt in the soup the first time and could taste it.   Build it at the North Pole - each direction is south.   The doctor was the mother.   Seven.   They were 2 of a set of triplets.   The four men were carrying a coffin with the fifth man in it.   It was flying upside down.   Wind up his clock, then set it to a known time, eg. 1 o'clock, just before he leaves. As soon as he gets to his friend, he remembers the exact time, and remembers the exact time he leaves. When he gets home he notes the exact time that has passed on his own clock since he set out. He can work out the time taken on each part of the journey by taking the number of minutes spent with his friend from this and dividing what is left by two. He then adds this amount to the time shown on his friend's clock when he left and this gives the correct time, assuming his two journeys took the same amount of time.   He had two parachutes and the police thought he might force one of the hostages to jump with him. They would not tamper with his parachute to cause it not to open in case one of the hostages was using it.   The son of the man speaking.   E N (One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine) Back to Questions

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