Lateral Thinking I

[Holmes]

Well, here are a mini-logic problems, some of them are well known.

1)The man in the lift
A man lives in a building on the 10th floor. Every day the takes the lift to the ground floor to go to his job. However, when he returns, he takes the lift to the 7th floor and walks to his house on the 10th floor. The man hates walking, why does he do it?

2)Te man in the bar
A man enters a bar and asks the barman a glass of water. The barman kneels searching for something, then he takes a shotgun and aims at the man that asked for the glass of water. The man says:"Thank you" and goes away, why is that?

3)The man that comitted suicide
In a middle of a stable completely empty, a hanged man was found. The rope was tied on the top of the roof. It was a 3 metres rope. The feet of the dead man had a metre of distance to the floor. The nearest wall had a 7 metres of distance to the dead man. If climbing the wall or the roof is impossible, how did the man commit suicide?

4)The man in an empty desert with an untouched box
In a desert a man was found dead on the sand. Near him is a box or package untouched and closed. Their isn´t any living thing around. He wasn´t poisoned and their weren´t any marks of being stabbed or shot, how did he die?

[sdf1macross]

Is there a number five?? There's nothing after it

[GinRei]

1)The man in the lift

Spoiler:

The man is short.  Too short to reach the button for the tenth floor, yet tall enough to reach the seventh floor button.  If he can reach the seventh floor button, he can obviously reach the ground floor button.

2)The man in the bar

Spoiler:

The man had the hiccups, and wanted the water to cure them.  Instead, the bartender scared the crap out of him with a shotgun.

3)The man that comitted suicide

Spoiler:

Since there's no mention of the lack of furniture, he probably stood on a chair and kicked it out from under him.

4)The man in an empty desert with an untouched box

Spoiler:

Going to go out on a limb and say dehydration.

[bright_zero]

1:

Spoiler:

The man is to short to hit 10# button, hence he steps out on the 7th floor.

2:

Spoiler:

Hiccups, he got scared by the shotgun so no need for water

3:

Spoiler:

He didn't commit suicide, somebody killed him and hanged him up there.

4:

Spoiler:

Dehydration.

[Holmes]

Ginrei, bright_zero, your answers all your answers are correct but you didn´t get the last one: Explanation,

The man had jumped off a plane but his parachute didn´t work, his parachute was the box, the package.


And yours answers for numer 3 are possible, I give my apologies because there are two versions of this One:

1)

Spoiler:

In the problem it also mentions that under the dead man´s feet is a puddle of water.

2)The one I wrote.

While I was writeing I was wondering if I had to write version one or two and I chose number two, because writing version one is a little obvious.

[sdf1macross]

Nice stuff ^_^ Waiting for more 

[GinRei]

For the desert one, as far as I'm aware parachutes aren't box shaped.  They're generally backpack or sack shaped.  And why would it be near him if he was wearing it and it didn't deploy?  It should still be on his back.

[bright_zero]

For the desert one, as far as I'm aware parachutes aren't box shaped.  They're generally backpack or sack shaped.  And why would it be near him if he was wearing it and it didn't deploy?  It should still be on his back.

Exactly, a parachute is usualy shaped like a backpack.

[Holmes]

For the desert one, as far as I'm aware parachutes aren't box shaped.  They're generally backpack or sack shaped.  And why would it be near him if he was wearing it and it didn't deploy?  It should still be on his back.

Exactly, a parachute is usualy shaped like a backpack.

It fell while he was falling, it´s the only explanation, I guess

[bright_zero]

For the desert one, as far as I'm aware parachutes aren't box shaped.  They're generally backpack or sack shaped.  And why would it be near him if he was wearing it and it didn't deploy?  It should still be on his back.

Exactly, a parachute is usualy shaped like a backpack.

It fell while he was falling, it´s the only explanation, I guess

Well if you say so, I mean you have the answers so...
Still I disagree, but it doesn't matter

[Merialle]

Ginrei, bright_zero, your answers all your answers are correct but you didn´t get the last one: Explanation,

The man had jumped off a plane but his parachute didn´t work, his parachute was the box, the package.


And yours answers for numer 3 are possible, I give my apologies because there are two versions of this One:

1)

Spoiler:

In the problem it also mentions that under the dead man´s feet is a puddle of water.

Spoiler:

He stood over a block of ice and hung himself. Then after a while, the ice melted and became a puddle of water.

[blurfbreg]

Ginrei, bright_zero, your answers all your answers are correct but you didn´t get the last one: Explanation,

The man had jumped off a plane but his parachute didn´t work, his parachute was the box, the package.


And yours answers for numer 3 are possible, I give my apologies because there are two versions of this One:

1)

Spoiler:

In the problem it also mentions that under the dead man´s feet is a puddle of water.

Spoiler:

He stood over a block of ice and hung himself. Then after a while, the ice melted and became a puddle of water.

NICE!!! right out of a DC Episode

[sstimson]

just for fun.

#3 In a middle of a stable completely empty, a hanged man was found. The rope was tied on the top of the roof. It was a 3 metres rope. The feet of the dead man had a metre of distance to the floor. The nearest wall had a 7 metres of distance to the dead man. If climbing the wall or the roof is impossible, how did the man commit suicide?

My thoughts: He stood on top of the back of a horse to reach the roof tie the rope then put the rope around his neck. He lightly kicked the horse and after the horse moved he was hanged. ( he was in a stable after all. )

#4 The man in an empty desert with an untouched box
In a desert a man was found dead on the sand. Near him is a box or package untouched and closed. Their isn´t any living thing around. He wasn´t poisoned and their weren´t any marks of being stabbed or shot, how did he die?

My thoughts: The man was walking in the desert after his car broke down. A sandstorm came up and choked him. He died from lack of air. The box contained silk worms he bought to start a silk farm. After a sandstorm all marks on the desert floor would have be erased.

I know these are not the right answers. They are just a fun way to use my imagination to picture ways things could have happened.

Later