Answers to Lateral Thinking Puzzles
- The riverboat was crowded with passengers and was
motoring down a tropical river, when a snake fell off an
overhanging branch onto the boat. All the passengers
rushed to the other side of the boat. This unbalanced the
boat, which capsized.
- When the president died he was rushed to the hospital in
a serious condition. When he died, all the ropes on the
flagpoles around the country were loosened, as the flags
were flown at half-mast.
- The old man was a priest and he was sitting alone when a
man confessed to him that he had murdered his aunt for
money. The priest realized that the woman in the
newspaper was the murder victim. The seal of the
confessional meant that he could not tell the police.
- His home was a houseboat on the sea. He put on his scuba
gear and dived to 200 feet. One should ascend from such
depths slowly in order to depressurize. He came up too
quickly and suffered a severe attack of the
"Bends," from which he died.
- One of the wheels from the truck had worked loose and
come out a little earlier. It had continued to roll along
the road. As he stood by his truck he was hit by the
runaway wheel.
- They were travelling in a hot-air balloon. When the
circular circumference of the balloon crossed an electric
power line, the balloon crashed and all the passengers
died.
- He pours out the water from his bottle and fills it with
gasoline from the car. He stuffs the handkerchief into
the top of the bottle to make a Molotov cocktail. he
waits until the sniper approaches the car and then lights
the handkerchief before hurling the bottle at his
attacker.
- The police arrested the dealer and charged her
with murder.
- The man who died was shot in a duel. The man who waved
the cloth gave the signal that the two duelists could
commence.
- He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early eighteenth century when it was still a British colony. He was British.
