# Lateral Thinking Puzzles. Let's do it again! **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 23, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193 "2019-10-23T21:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/421 "2019-11-13T06:15:59Z")
Are the items associated with specific weather? With a particular environment (eg sea, snow, mountains)? Are the items considered safety gear? Do both the items go on the same part of a persons body? Are they items that women wear? Are they items that men wear? ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/422 "2019-11-13T06:19:51Z")
Oh - I thought of a more specific guess. The items are knickers and swimsuit, and the one time you wear together is when you’re trying on swimsuits in the shop ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/423 "2019-11-13T10:20:35Z")
Belt AND braces? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/424 "2019-11-13T10:42:37Z")
Men’s clothing? Women’s clothing? Children’s clothing? Babies’ clothing? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/425 "2019-11-13T11:55:59Z")
For what it’s worth, with the linguistic question, I was thinking of things like punctuation marks. But we’re pretty clearly past that now. And I’ll hold off on more questions for the moment-- It looks like we have enough for now, until we get some answers. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/426 "2019-11-13T13:55:09Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Oh - I thought of a more specific guess. > > The items are knickers and swimsuit, and the one time you wear together is when you’re trying on swimsuits in the shop **Yes!** We have a winner! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/427 "2019-11-13T13:56:57Z")
Never mind, saw on preview somebody got it, so the joke I had in mind doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/428 "2019-11-13T19:51:21Z")
Alright! Ok, I’ve got another one. **When the pope decreed he should be burnt for heresy it didn’t really bother him. Why not?** ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/429 "2019-11-13T19:54:56Z")
Because “he” was one of the pope’s predecessors, who was already dead. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/430 "2019-11-13T20:07:39Z")
Because he was an anti-pope who had already declared the same for the pope. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/431 "2019-11-13T20:09:01Z")
FUUUUUCK! (not a predecessor though. John Wycliffe, the first English translator of the Bible. He’d been dead for 45 years) Well, that was … a thing. Over to the rest of yez… ---
**Author:** ![Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pasta)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/432 "2019-11-13T20:54:14Z")
I’ll give it a go. I was surprised not to find this one in the previous thread (unless I missed it?) **Sarah came home to find John lying dead on the floor in a pool of water, broken glass everywhere.** ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/433 "2019-11-13T21:00:05Z")
Is that the traditional ‘goldfish’ one? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/434 "2019-11-13T21:10:49Z")
I do think that is the goldfish one, so I’ll add one. I don’t think this is hugely challenging, so if you heard it or know it straight away, please let others play. I assume Google ruins this one. \*\*It was built, filled, and used. It is still built and filled, but no longer used. What is it and why no longer used? \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pasta)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/435 "2019-11-13T21:20:35Z")
Yeah, that’s the one. I wasn’t sure whether it was traditional or just one I happened to know. ---
**Author:** ![Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pasta)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/436 "2019-11-13T21:22:11Z")
Does it have to do with food? Does it have to do with architecture? When it was used, was it used by humans? Was it typically used by a single human at a time? ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/437 "2019-11-13T21:24:04Z")
Sorry, **Pasta**! It is a good one though… Qs for Mahaloth Was it filled with liquid? Was it filled with something valuable? Is it bigger than a person? Is it bigger than a 3-storey building? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/438 "2019-11-13T22:45:03Z")
Is what it is filled with now the same as what it was filled with when it was used? Is it a singular object? Is it a category of objects? Does He fill it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/439 "2019-11-13T23:11:51Z")
> [@Pasta](#): > > Does it have to do with food? NO > Does it have to do with architecture? NO > When it was used, was it used by humans? YES > Was it typically used by a single human at a time? NO > [@Aspidistra](#): > > Sorry, **Pasta**! It is a good one though… > > Qs for Mahaloth > > Was it filled with liquid? YES > Was it filled with something valuable? NO > Is it bigger than a person? YES > Is it bigger than a 3-storey building? NO > [@Chronos](#): > > Is what it is filled with now the same as what it was filled with when it was used? YES > Is it a singular object? YES > Is it a category of objects? NO > Does He fill it? I have no idea what this means, so NO 🙂 KK ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/440 "2019-11-13T23:24:59Z")
Is it built periodically? Is it destroyed after it is built? and then built again? Is only one built at a time? Is the liquid water aside: In the previous thread, there was a tricky puzzle where He ended up being Helium. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193.md?page=23)