Answers to further nonsense
Q: Detective Smith finds Romeo and Juliet dead on the kitchen floor, surrounded by broken glass. There were no signs of a break-in. What killed them?
A: Romeo and Juliet are goldfish. Their bowl was knocked over by the family dog. They died of asphyxiation.
Q: Five men were travelling along a lane when it began to rain. Four of the men got wet but the fifth didn’t, though he had no umbrella, hat or raincoat. How could that be?
A: The four men were pallbearers. The fifth man was in the coffin.
Q: A woman watched her husband plunge to his death. Later she found him working in the garden. How was that possible?
A: The woman’s husband was a stuntman and she had been watching him in a film.
Q: A carrot, a woollen scarf and five buttons were found on the ground in a field. If no-one put them there, how did they get there?
A: They were left behind after a snowman thawed.
Q: A man stopped his car outside a hotel and immediately realised he was bankrupt. How did he know?
A: He was playing Monopoly.
Q: A carton containing six eggs is on the table. Six people take one egg each. How is it that one egg is left in the carton?
A: The sixth person took the carton with the last egg in it.
Humph. I didn't get a single one right! Fun though!
ReplyDeleteGroan. The only one I got right was the snowman lol
ReplyDeleteThought I had two - but No, only the snowman.
ReplyDeletelol - a nice bit of lateral thinking required there. xx
ReplyDeleteGroan!!!
ReplyDeleteI got the snowman one.
ReplyDeleteI have a little book in the loo that has over 80 of these "lateral thinking" puzzles in it!
ReplyDelete" A man stopped his car opposite an hotel and immediately knew he was bankrupt.How? "
He was playing Monopoly!!
They make a mockery of lateral thinking.
ReplyDeleteMy mind obviously works in a different way. Or perhaps it barely works at all!
ReplyDeleteReading the answers today they all seem so obvious but I was clueless yesterday
ReplyDeleteMy lateral thinking is as bad as my spatial thinking. So not too many quizzes please.
ReplyDeleteI love this! I guessed the pallbearers but nothing else.
ReplyDeleteThanks, these are making me smile with the answers this morning. Simple but silly
ReplyDeleteYup. I was right on a couple and wrong on the others!!
ReplyDeleteI got four of them. But my answer to the men in the rain was that the fifth was driving a car! The egg one is so clear once it's explained, dangit.
ReplyDeleteI only got the snowman one
ReplyDeleteThe answers are always so obvious when they're pointed out, but I can feel good about getting one right.
ReplyDeleteThese are good. I only figured out the snowman one.
ReplyDeleteI liked the snowman one the best. I'm terrible with riddles so didn't try to figure them out, but enjoyed reading them just the same.
ReplyDeleteWell done, everyone. They're fun for a change, but I'm hopeless at them and usually avoid them. No more, I promise (until the next time . . . 😧😣🤢)
ReplyDeleteI got the last one without too much effort but that's about it... With No 2, because of the word "travelling", I'd just have said one of them was in a car...
ReplyDeletethese are common sense questions, I failed miserably but I did laugh
ReplyDeleteFun!-Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteI love these, but some of them are a stretch. Goldfish is pure gold, however. I will drive my grandkid crazy with it.
ReplyDeleteAfter all the dust cleared, one right (the snowman). Oh well!
ReplyDeleteThose are the kinds of riddles that we used to like to challenge our kids- fun..
ReplyDeleteMy head still hurts from yesterday....but I fared fairly well.
ReplyDeleteWell I thought I knew three but it ended up as two!
ReplyDeleteFun post though.
All the best Jan
The scarecrow was my sole correct answer.
ReplyDeleteI new I had the snowman correct.
ReplyDeleteI guessed the snowman one, but the others stumped me
ReplyDeleteI got the pall bearers, the snowman (that one was rather obvious) and the eggs. With Romeo and Juliet or the stuntman, we had no way of knowing those, did we!
ReplyDeleteThese are fun!
ReplyDeleteThis was so much fun I had to read it to my husband.
ReplyDeletelol.
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