Riddles

Questions:

1. A man was walking from the Irish town of Dublin to the town of Cork. Now Ireland is famous for its bars, especially around Dublin. But this man did not pass a single pub. Why not?

2. A deaf man walks into a hardware store, wanting to by a saw. When he gets to the saw counter, he finds the saw he was looking for. How does he communicate  to the clerk that he wants to by the saw?

3. A old man has a very exact morning routine. Every morning he gets up at 7:00, gets dressed and eats breakfast, then at 9:00, he goes to the store, buys whatever he needs, then at 11:00, He starts his flying lesson.

Now his flying lesson was going particularly well this morning, but just as he reached his peak and was conferring with his instructor, who was sitting right next to him, on where to land, he realized he had forgotten to buy something. He immediately turned off the engine, stopped listening to his instructor, and crashed the plane, killing them both. What did he forget to buy?

4. A guy is a a room with no doors, no windows...basically, the room is completely sealed. All that's in it is the guy, a table, and a mirror. How does he get out?

Answers:

1. He didn't pass any bars because he went into every one of them.

2. He simply says "I would like to buy that saw, please." Just because he was deaf didn't mean he couldn't talk.

3. He forgot to buy batteries for his hearing aids. At the peak of their ascent, the old batteries ran out, and he could no longer hear his instructor, and panicked.

4. He looked in the mirror to see what he saw, he took the saw and cut the table in half, two halves make a whole, so he put them together and crawled out that hole.

Lateral Thinking Puzzles Revisited

Scene: There is a dead man in a garage surrounded by 51 bicycles and an overturned table. What happened?
Answer: The bicycles were playing cards and a fight ensued after cheating was discovered. ]

Scene: A man is found dead in a locked room in a puddle of water.
Answer: The poor guy died of starvation; the room was locked, right? The water? Oh, the roof leaked.

Scene: A man gets out of bed, and kills himself.
Answer: The man was a midget for the circus, and had just gotten fed up with his bleak and demeaning lifestyle.

Scene: There is a dead man in a cage surrounded by 51 cats, an overturned table, and an empty gun. What happened?
Answer: A depressed midget switched blanks for the live ammo in the lion tamer's gun.

Scene: A man goes into a restaurant and orders some albatross. After some delay, the food arrives. He takes a taste, and then kills himself. Why?
Answer: Obviously a whacko. I mean, who orders ALBATROSS in a restaurant? I say, "good riddance to bad garbage!"

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Katie Tyson