Interesting Slacker. The cheapest I found it on Amazon was 59 and as high as over 200. eBay has it for less, but I was too lazy to do the bidding thing.
Mahaloth, google for Lateral thinking, there are a few sites devoted to these puzzles.
A mountain has a tunnel with a single train track running through it. One day at exactly noon, two trains enter the tunnel from opposite ends. Neither one changes its speed but they pass through the tunnel without crashing. How?
A man walks into a restaurant and is shown to a table. He does not look at the menu, but instead orders albatross. The food comes out and he takes one bite. He immediately gets up, walks out of the restaurant, and kills himself by shooting himself in the head. Why?
Hm, too bad you don’t want death. The only one I can think of offhand is:
A man is found dead in a room. He hanged himself from a pipe running overhead, and his feet are a foot above the floor. There’s a puddle of water underneath him. The room is otherwise completely empty. There is no furniture, boxes, or any kind of object he could have stood on while hanging himself. How did he do it?
He brought in a block of ice and stood on it. It melted afterwards.
I think that the Q & A part must lead people to the one contemplated answer, because otherwise I agree: Why couldn’t the answer be “They were eaten by bears?”
Yes, the idea is usually to elicit the specific situational information, not to merely produce any plausible answer. Sort of an expanded 20 questions, where the answer is a (possibly very simple) story, rather than a single item.
