Lateral Thinking 2

1 - he got lost, same model and year car, but not his.

2 - He saw the truck in his rear view mirror

3 - Ted is the cat, Alice was the fish.

4 - ? have to think on that - what Bob said...

5 - sure as long as it fell from the first floor window.

1 - he got lost, same model and year car, but not his.

How did his wife get in the other car?

2 - He saw the truck in his rear view mirror

Possible under two conditions: He is parked, facing the right way, when the truck pulls onto the street the wrong way behind him; or he (the officer) turned onto the street after the truck passed the intersection (not likely, because the officer would see the truck going the wrong way as he approaches the intersection). In either case, I believe the officer has the right to drive the wrong way to catch him.

3 - Ted is the cat, Alice was the fish.

One problem with that - the puzzle says that Alice was dead on the floor, not in Ted's tummy. You show me a cat that breaks a fishbowl and doesn't eat the fish! Ted hit Alice over the head with the fishbowl.

#3 Ok Ted was a room mate that knocked Alice & fish bowl to the floor on the way out the door when he got a phone call from his very hot looking girlfriend.

1. Don't know. I will have to cogitate on that one.

2. The officer was on foot.

3. Ted left before Bob and Alice returned. Or he committed suicide after he killed Alice.

4. He bought the rice to plant and grow a large crop.

5. The baby fell out of a lower floor, maybe even the ground floor.

1) He killed his wife (or was carrying her dead body - more probable) before going, the stranger was the policeman.

(2) He was not in a position to stop - he saw from his toilet window/he was not on duty/ he saw from his garden/...

4)

a)The man is american grower in India/ America (he be bought from himself @$1 and sold @$0.05 - look at the tax bnefit due to losses and it is his money changing hand and saving taxes - common business practice).

b) The $ are the profit margins at the transactions and not the rate/ lbs

c) Got to think if any of the pounds are £ and not lbs.

5) simple already explained- fell from the ground floor window of 22 floor house (could have been on ground on 22nd floor too, if the word fell out was not there )

In #1, the car broke down because it was in a wreck. The wife was injured and bleeding. She died before her husband returned. The stranger is either a police officer or a firefighter that a passerby called to the scene. He broke into the locked car to rescue the woman.

4) The man sells the crop in INDIA, where they use the rupee, a very small form of currency, where 1USDwould be equal to perhaps as many as 50 rupee, so selling 20 pound which would have cost $20 now sells for 50 rupee, he is a millionare, but in a different currency.

1) The car was a taxi, he locked her inside with the taxi driver

2) The truck was backing up to make a delivery.

1. She had a baby

2. Ambulance driver

3 Alice is a fish and ted is a cat

4 Exchange rate. or he plants it cooks it and sells it.

5 by falling out of the basement window. Maybe a six inch drop.

1. a birth occurred. The racing was to the delivery room at the hospital.

2. The truck driver was walking.

3. Water critter and a cat.

4. Exchange rate = millions of local currency (rupee).

5. Fell out the ground floor doorway.

1. she gave birth and died. the stranger was the new born baby

2. He was not driving his truck

3. is this a trick question?

4. He is a millionaire in India's currency

5. it's been said...the baby fell in ground floor of the 20 story building

1.She gave birth and died from lack of care....the stranger was her Baby.

2.Street cleaner lorry? or just reversing?

3.Ted the cat and Alice the (gold?) fish.

4. Different value $$$s maybe or one pound is a money and not a weight?

5.Only from the ground floor?

1. I think that his wife died during child-birth and the baby is the "stranger".

2. The truck is backing up on the street (perfectly legal, as long as you face the right direction).

3. I think that Alice is a fish and Ted is a dog (to avoid his eating Alice, as mentioned above). Of course, my dogs would probable eat Alice anyway....

4. The man plants the American rice and gets so much that he can sell his crop for $0.05/pound and still make a million. One rice seed gives many rice seeds.

5. I agree with the suggestion that the baby fell from the first floor window to the ground.

I kind of like these puzzles, they help get my mind working.

Lots of good answers. Perhaps new number 4 could support a number of different solutions?

a) Subsidy
b) Very different dollars used for the transactions (US dollars in India, worthless dollars in Latin America)
c) Only part of his business has been mentioned - he also sells in dearer America and buys cheaper in India, or he doesn't buy on his own behalf
d) Transportation times are such that these transactions occur at times of famine and glut respectively - but he's good at using the futures market to offset his risk
e) Already mentioned - he's a rice farmer in the USA, and the expensive rice is high-quality seed - (but given transportation costs it might well be combined with a subsidy). The difficulty here (and for c) is that the wording "his rice" and "them" rather implies that they is the same rices.

does he sell them ? (Rice growers ?)

But we don't have cannibals (or slaves )

Isn't there some part of a marriage ceremony involving pounded rice ?

5 - baby what ?

Brilliant !

Nice!

Your the first one to answer this correctly!

time to post a new one I think!

lmho!!! that's a good one...perhaps it 100% correct