A father was speaking to his teenage daughter. "You arrived very late, at 3 o'clock in the morning, and you kept me and your mother up waiting anxiously for you. I do not want that to ever happen again."
"But, Father," the girl replied, "I will never be able to do that again." What did she mean?
I think they must be talking about the day she was born. ??
You got it, GG!!!
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Okay, here's another:
A man stared through the dirty soot-smeared window on the 26th floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground. Miraculously after he landed he was completely unhurt. Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived?
There were window washers on a scaffold outside the window...he landed on the scaffold?
G-Mom
Oh, I've heard this one! I think G-mom is close, but no cigar, right Cricket?
was he dreaming that he jumped?
GeeGee is right, G'Mom, very close but no cigar. Good guess though! You're headed in the right direction - almost.
Sorry, Miss Jamie, he was awake and knew exactly what he was doing!!
He was the window washer,looking IN through the window. He opened it and went in the building?
G-Mom
You got it right on, G-Mom!
I love it!!!!!!
Thats ones truely great
A horse jumps over the tower and lands on a man, who disappears. How can such a thing be?
Well given that a horse jumping over a tower isn't that likely to occur I'm gonna guess that the man was either a ghost or he disappeared cause he got plowed into the ground from the horse landing on him and disappeared into the ground
Good try, Shani, but that's not it.
it's a chess game right?
A knight jumped over a rook and captured a pawn.
You got it, Belinda! And at that time of morning!!!
A policeman follows a burglar into a bar. When he enters the bar he finds a set of identical twins, dressed the same, with the loot between them. After several minutes he arrests one of the twins.
There had to be some kind of difference between them...One of them was wearing jewelry(necklace,earrings or rings)or maybe glasses?
G-Mom
G-Mom, you are on the right track...there was a difference between them, but they were dressed identically and both wore glasses.
I was going to say he fingerprinted them, because identical twins still have different fingerprints, but now your glasses remark has thrown me off.
Hmmm.....
1 wore sunglasses and the other 1 wore regular glasses?
G-Mom
You're on the right track...but not quite, G-Mom!
Was one of them wearing a blind person's glasses, thus making it unlikely he would be the burglar?
Good guess, Geegee, but...nope. Keep trying though!
My 13yo son,Alex,helped me on this one.
He just got new glasses and they're tinted.
One twin had regular lenses and the other one had tinted lenses(get darker outside)?
G-Mom
Were the frames identical?
You got it, G-Mom (and Alex)!!
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The thief had photosensitive lenses which were still dark, indicating he had just come in from the outdoors.
A woman goes into a convenience store to buy a can of Coke. She pays for it with a $20 bill and receives $21.50 in change. No mistake was made.
She's in Canada and pays with a US $20.
Bill's answer sounds good to me!
Bill got it! Our dollar hasn't yet caught up with yours!
A woman tells her children to do something, but just one boy obeys. The woman says something to him, and he stomps away, sits down, and sulks.
In anger did she tell them to go jump off a bridge" and then got mad at the one for actually doing it?
they're playing a game
"Simon Says"
actually only 2 but I use to sub at school some and it was a game they liked
Three switches outside a windowless room are connected to three light bulbs inside the room. How can you determine which switch is connected to which bulb if you may enter the room only once?
Okay, I'm thinking of this in a smart-alecky way, BUT, I'd go open the door, stand by the door, look in, and switch the switches one by one.
If the switches are out of reach from the doorway, then I'd go in the room, and have someone else switch the left switch, then middle, then right, and see which lights up when.
I'm gonna skip this one cause I heard it a long time ago
Hmmm, Geegee, that IS a logical guess, but let's say you are alone and the light switches are situated so that you would have to leave the room to operate them and cannot see the open door from them.
(Your answer
IS simpler, though!
)
Okay. Flip one switch on, but don't go in the room. Leave it on for like a year, so it burns out. THEN flip a second switch. Go in the room, find out which of the bulbs is burned out, and that's the first switch. The second switch is the bulb that's lit up, and the third is the unlit, unburned out bulb. HA! Is that it?
OMG, I just sprayed the computer, okay you're getting warmer
You flip one switch on, then wait for like 2 minutes. Then flip a 2nd switch on and go into the room. Of the two that are lit, you feel wich one is the hotest, that was the first switch, the other one that is on is the 2nd switch and the one that is off is the 3rd switch.
Oh, God! THANK YOU, Jenn! I've been thinking about it all afternoon.
:rolleyes:
Adults are holding children, waiting their turn. The children are handed (one at a time, usually) to a man, who holds them while a woman shoots them. If the child is crying, the man tries to stop the crying before the child is shot.
That ones kind of easy given the season,
the kids are going to see santa
Yes, Shani, that's it!
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What is special about the number 854917632?
(I hope others start posting some lateral puzzles that we haven't yet seen because I'm going to run out of them soon!
)
Yeah,Cricket, I had that same problem. And I can't answer this one, cause I already saw the answer somewhere else. I think this one is hard.
Yep, Geegee, this IS a hard one! I'll try to think of hints.
It has all the numbers from 1-9?
No...thats can't be it...it's too easy.
That's a start, but there's more to it...
Geegee is right,
you're on the right track, G-Mom!
Throw it on the water and see where it will float to! Toss it in the wind and see where it flies! Throw it in the
mailbox and see where it is delivered!
Okay, okay, I'm out of
BAD METAPHORS! 
You are on the right track - it just needs expanding!
This puzzle is a tough one; perhaps that's why so few guesses are being ventured.
If no one posts further guesses by tomorrow, I'll post the answer along with a new puzzle.
Also, I think it's just a real slow day on here, Cricket.
I agree with G-Mom, it has numbers 1 to 9. Could it be that the arrangement of the 9 numbers is not numerical but alphabetical?
eight
five
four
nine
one
seven
six
three
two
e,fi,fo,n,o,se,si,th,tw
Alphabetical order?
G-Mom
G-Mom,
I really think you got it G-Mom.
You got it, G-Mom!
Here's another:
A man finds a $20 bill but instead of being happy, he sinks into a depression.
He realizes it came from his wallet and that the rest of his money has blown away
That would work, Shani. But let's assume the money was not found in any of his current possessions.
Did the man get robbed and all he has left to his name is the $20?
G-Mom
The man probably found a $20 bill with my picture on it instead of Jackson. One look at the picture and he went into shock...heh heh heh...the shock caused the depression.
The real truth is, I don't have the answer yet.
He can't get out of the hole he found the $20 in??
ROFL.! That's a good one, Jenn!
My guess: He finds it in the suit jacket he's wearing which he took out of his closet that morning, but he knows he didn't have 20 bucks in his jacket, so he realizes he must be wearing another man's jacket, and his wife must be having an affair. Okay, that may be a little far-fetched.....
ROFL!
I love all those answers better than the "real" one!
Okay, here's a clue:
It has to do with the man's profession and a tracking method.
because it's A counterfeit $20 bill
He's part of the mob and that's how they tell a member of the mob that they are going to get "taken care of" next???
hehe i like the mob one,
but i want to expand on the counterfeit one that not only is he counterfeiter but in the process of exchanging fake money foe real money he's only got fake money back.
He, he, he, these answers are really GREAT!
Another clue:
The money is real and the denomination is irrelevant.
No one is after the man and he is NOT involved with any illegal activity.
My earlier clue, especially the part about the tracking method, is RELEVANT.
There is a reason he did NOT want to find the money...why?
IS the man a police officer, who has put a tiny tracking device on the bill in hopes of chatching someone else only he filndds the bill which means he's lost the crook?
Good try, Shani, but nope!
There are no criminals or illegal activities involved in the answer and the money itself is a tracking method.
The answer lies in what is being tracked. And how?
I'm stumped. Papito, where are you on this one?!
This doesn't have anything to do with Monopoly again, does it?
No, Geegee, not Monopoly.
This is a tough one, guys, so I'll add one more clue. I won't be around until tonight so if no one has posted the correct answer would you like me to post it along with a new puzzle or try to add more clues until it's solved?
Today's clue: The man is a published author.
Hey Geegeeburr,
papito is scratching his head and pulling his hair...
Suppose the man is a collector of valuable coins and paper money.
The man probably possessed an old US bill worth millions of dollars if it is the only one in existence. He attends big antique shows in every state hoping that he won't find another bill which could devalue his money. Unfortunately he found one just like his and became extremely depressed because of impending monetary loss.
Still scratching his head... now with less hair.
The money is tracking itself eh?
Is it a bill that some one has entered into the Wheres George website and written on so that others can track it there and the man who currently has possesion of it finds it disgraceful to write on money?
Hey, did he find a bill that has his wifes name and phone number on it?
Hey, Papito, great answer!
I really am enjoying all your answers so much more than the proposed one.
To recap:
A man who is a published author found $20, resulting in depression. The $ is a method of tracking something. What and how is the author tracking? There is no illegal activity involved, no one chasing the man, and nothing unusual about the $20 bill - it's valid currency and has only face value. The denomination is also irrelevant to the puzzle - it could also have been a $5 or $100 bill.
Another clue: The man who found the $20 is the same person who put it where he found it to begin with.
Okay. The man is a sociologist (or something in behavioral sciences) who has published a paper or thesis that people are inherently greedy or dishonest. To prove his theory, he planted money in a public place, possibly in a wallet, or with something that could identify him, on the assumption that people would find the money and just take it. Because he found the money exactly where he left it, untouched by anyone, his theory is proven wrong and he is ruined professionally.
Oh, Geez, I have no clue! It can't be that!
What about wind patterns? Is that what he's tracking?
Geegee, he isn't tracking windpatterns but your other guess was warmer.
He isn't a sociologist - just an author.
on the assumption that people would find the money and just take it.
Hmm...the chill is going out of the air!
Why would he want someone to take the money he planted?
He put the money in a book he had written,when he saw the money still there he knew noone had bought or read his book? Borrowed it from the library or purchased it at a book store?
G-Mom
Oh! That HAS to be it, G-mom!
Good job!
That's it, G-Mom!
<img border="0" alt="[clappy]" title="" src="graemlins/clappy.gif" /> The author placed $20 in a library book (which he wrote) and when he checked it out again some time later, the money was still there, so he assumed the book hadn't been read and became depressed.
Good for you for getting it - it was a tough one!
Okay, here's a new one:
A college class is given 1 hour to complete a final exam. The best students studied for weeks and used the entire hour. The class clown, who didn't study at all, finished in less than a minute, and received the highest grade in the class.
the class is a philosophy class
the teacher is a professor who has repeatedly stressed that theory is empty until instantiated in action.
The exam consisted of one question: "What is courage?"
Many students write and quote numerous philosophers and works studied in class on their essays.
The class clown read the question, and wrote "This" and turned it in to the professor
:This" being the "action" he got the highest grade in the class.
Hot da#@, Sunnydaze, that's good. If that isn't the right answer, then it ought to be!
Wow, Belinda...that's it! Great job!!!
A man comes in a store; the clerk says: Four will cost you $3, Ten will cost you $6, Two-Hundred will cost $9. What is the man buying?
is it the price of shipping items from a store?
Good guess, Miss Jamie, but nope!
At first I thought it might be rolls of pennies, with a 1$ surcharge, but the two hundred blew that theory out of the water.
Maybe it's stationery? A single sheet is 75 cents, 10 or more, they're 60 cents, or if you need a lot, you can buy a box of a hundred for 4.50 each?
Or is it a bookie, giving odds? (Dunno if that makes sense, never been to a bookie.)
Is he having copies made?
G-Mom
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Good guesses, Geegee and G-Mom, but nope!
I'll try to come up with some hints but for now, the only thing I can tell you is the man is buying something you wouldn't usually need very often, unless maybe you're a nomad.
oh wait!! I've heard this one before....let me think.
House numbers!! he's buying house numbers
Right?
Oh, of course!
Way to go, sunny!
That's it, Belinda!
Each digit costs $3.
Huh. Belinda, I've been misreading your username for 3 months. The whole time, I thought it was sunnydaze. What a dork!
I wanted Sunnydaze, but someone at yahoo was already using that one, so I ended up with Suzydaze, makes me sound like an air head
and don't ask me why I picked this blonde in the corner for my pic, *L* I guess to me she looks like a suzydaze, but I have brownish-red hair.
I stuck with Suzydaze because it matches my yahoo mail address, or rather it is my yahoo mail address.
It's kind of grown on me now. I'm starting to like it, might even keep it as my pen name (if and when ) I ever finish my book