Anyone know any good "situational puzzles"?

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I know this one…something about the man being a sailor, and they ran out of food, and the cook started serving “albatross.” Once he gets back on land, he tastes the albatross, realizes it doesn’t taste the same as the “albatross” served on the ship, and shoots himself because he can’t live with the fact he ate “long pig.”

A man leaves home. After making a couple of stops, he heads back home. But blocking his path is another man wearing a mask.

The man is a baseball player.

I love these. I Mind Trap, my sister has Crack the Case. We’ve been slowly working our way through the cards.

I have one.

A man walks into a bar and orders a glass of water. The bartender pulls a gun out from under the bar and points it at the man. The man thanks him and leaves. What happened?

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I haven’t read this entire post, so someone may have already said this; but IMO this was told incorrectly.
The way I heard it was something like…
A man was hiking in the woods and saw a cabin, he immediately knew everyone inside the cabin was dead, and how they died.
How did he know this?
Maybe not much better but at least you could argue that if another person saw the cabin it’s at least reasonable.

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I know! I know!

He had the hiccups, and the bartender cured him!

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Hiccups

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Simulpost, both right!

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I just found this on the Wikipedia page for Situation Puzzles.

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I’m surprised no one’s mentioned this one…
A man lives on the 20th floor of an apartment building. If it is a rainy day, he gets into the elevator in the morning, goes down to the ground floor and goes off to work. In the afternoon when he comes home, he gets into the elevator and goes straight to the 20th floor. However, if it is a sunny day he goes down to the ground floor in the morning, but when he comes home he only goes up to the 10th floor and then walks up 10 flights of stairs. Why does he do this?

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These are the two that I know and have often used to pass the time with friends in the car:

A man walks into a seaside restaurant. After paying the chef a rather large amount of money, the man convinces the chef to prepare him a meal of albatross. After tasting one bite, the man gets up from his table, leaves the restaurant, walks to a edge of a high nearby cliff, and jumps to his death. Why?

[spoiler] The man is one of two shipwreck survivors who were found alive at sea in a life raft. The were not the only two individuals who had originally climbed into the life-raft. While drifting out at sea slowly suffering starvation, dehydration and exposure, other members of the survivor party died. The man was lapsing in and out of consciousness, delirious and weak, when his only surviving companion informed him that the other survivors had died and been thrown overboard. A while later, his companion roused him and claimed to have caught an albatross that they should both try to eat it in order to stay alive. The man chewed and swallowed what his companion fed to him, allowing them both to survive long enough to be rescued.

As the man began to recover aboard the ship that found them, he started to have doubts as to the source of the meat he had consumed while adrift at sea. He vowed that the first thing he would do once reaching the mainland, would be to arrange to eat albatross so that he could compare the taste to what he had eaten on the raft. Once he tasted the chef’s albatross dish, he realized that his survival companion had fed him human flesh to keep him alive.[/spoiler]

A woman wakes up one morning in her high-rise apartment. She takes a shower, eats breakfast, rides the elevator down to the parking garage, and drives to work. Upon returning to her apartment building that evening, she parks her car in the garage, and enters the elevator. She rides the elevator to the 11th floor, exits the elevator, and then walks up 10 flights of stairs to her 21st floor apartment. She repeats the same activity pretty much every day. She rides the elevator down to the parking garage in the morning, and in the evening she rides the elevator to the 11th floor, gets out, and climbs the remaining 10 flights of stairs to her floor. Why?

She is a dwarf, and can only reach as high as the button for the 11th floor in the elevator.

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He’s a little person and can’t reach the button for the 20th floor unless he has his umbrella.

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I guess you’re guilty of not reading the entire thread before posting too! :smiley:

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How quickly the variants spin off. I’m 100% sure that the version I first heard from an old ex-girlfriend of mine did not include

an umbrella :slight_smile:

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Guilty, though I did at least try to skim. :o

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A man is writing. The power goes out, and he dies.

What happened?

Crack the Case is really fun…they’re more involved puzzles, and you can spend a good half hour noodling them out. They include very weird ways to die, so my sister and I make a joke when we play a new card, going off what happened in the other cases…“Were they killed by a tiger? Were they poisoned with an African blowdart? Were they electrocuted when someone dropped a radio in the hot tub?”

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That’s the problem with doing these on this board. People are too good at cracking puzzles here.

And the man said, “Dammit, Tonto, I told you not to come back without my cigarettes.”

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He was using the computer while taking a bath?

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Nope.

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A man is running down the hall with a piece of paper in his hand. The lights flicker, he stops and throws the paper away.

He is running toward an execution with a gubernatorial pardon. The lights flicker because the electric chair is drawing power. He knows he’s too late.

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He was sky-writing, and the power that went out was his plane’s engine?

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I like that answer! I was thinking it was a variant on the “he was hooked to life support and the loss of power turned off his life support.”

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Correct.