# 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:** 248
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4943 "2021-11-26T17:59:24Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > I don’t know about the time pieces, but did the niece later become even more famous in fiction for interrupting an American football game? I’m going to guess I’m off the track. Heidi was an orphan delivered to Frankfurt, but the origin for the story takes place in the 19th not 20th Century. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4944 "2021-11-26T18:00:21Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > I don’t know about the time pieces, but did the niece later become even more famous in fiction for interrupting an American football game? Are you referring to that movie sponsored by Timex? The one where the advertisers were promised the movie would start on time. Where afterwards the NFL and the networks signed an agreement to always show games fully? DING! DING! DING! Rah Oldguy! We have a winner! ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4945 "2021-11-26T18:02:32Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sYTzKetOLRI/maxresdefault.jpg "Heidi (1968) | Full Movie | Jennifer Edwards | Michael Redgrave | Maximilian Schell | Jean Simmons") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYTzKetOLRI) Just don’t make ME try and watch it again. Please. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4946 "2021-11-26T18:03:26Z")
> **[Heidi (1968 film)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_(1968_film))** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Heidi is a 1968 American made-for-TV film version of the 1880 novel of the same name by Johanna Spyri which debuted on November 17, 1968 on NBC. It starred actress Jennifer Edwards, stepdaughter of Julie Andrews and daughter of Blake Edwards, in the title role, alongside Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons, and Michael Redgrave. The score was composed by John Williams. The film was sponsored by Timex. > The film altered the plot of the novel consider... ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4947 "2021-11-26T18:05:50Z")
I basically lucked into it by ignoring the timepieces. I knew Heidi was an orphan delivered to Frankfurt to be a companion for a girl in a wheelchair. Can you explain about the timepieces please. ---
**Author:** ![cheeses\_of\_nazareth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheeses_of_nazareth/32/7700_2.png) [@cheeses\_of\_nazareth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheeses_of_nazareth)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4948 "2021-11-26T18:21:07Z")
Jesus. I’m all for couching a lateral in obscure terms to make it challenging, but that was too much. Zero chance for anyone outside the US to get that one! ---
**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 26, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4949 "2021-11-26T18:32:52Z")
…don’t you mean Cheeses… ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4950 "2021-11-26T18:47:01Z")
Oh Lord I was thinking Heidi as well but couldn’t figure the time piece thing. ---
**Author:** ![cheeses\_of\_nazareth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheeses_of_nazareth/32/7700_2.png) [@cheeses\_of\_nazareth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheeses_of_nazareth)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4951 "2021-11-26T18:48:20Z")
Sorry **Biotop** - my response above is meaner than I intended. I do love your puzzles, and your willingness to push the envelope. I thought the Scrabble puzzle above was brilliant, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4952 "2021-11-26T19:12:51Z")
Grr… I am on the road to work and I cannot get my ancient phone to post the link. I wanted to link to the actual “Heidi Bowl” link from wiki, which does an excellent job of telling about how a game had never run over before, and how important the game was, and how the game electric clock kept having to stop. How Heidi had been so heavily promoted and how a kid’s movie had to start on time because kids had bedtimes and Timex had paid a lot of money to solely advertise their watches during that broadcast. How Timex had been promised the movie would start on time. How the game appeared to be over at seven pm when the Heidi movie was scheduled to start. How executives at NBC wanted to keep showing the game but switchboards were jammed with callers wanting to know if Heidi would start on time so word could not be gotten to the single person who was responsible and who had been told to start the movie on time no matter what. And the ending of what is still regarded as one of the best regular season football games EVER and the most exciting comeback was missed by half the United States who instead saw a taxi pull up to a street in Frankfurt in what was said to be the early twentieth century. And how the outrage over this timely arrival changed sports broadcasting and how network people would communicate. Indeed they created what was then known as the “Heidi Line” in case normal communication was erupted. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2021, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4953 "2021-11-27T05:27:45Z")
Here’s the link I meant to post: > **[Heidi Game](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > The Heidi Game or Heidi Bowl is the name given to a 1968 American Football League (AFL) game between the Oakland Raiders and the visiting New York Jets. The contest, held on November 17, 1968, was notable for its exciting finish, in which Oakland scored two touchdowns in the final minute to win the game 43–32. However, a decision by the game's television broadcaster NBC to break away from its coverage on the East Coast to broadcast the televisio... Thanks to everyone who played. I like the image of a game clock ticking down slowly while frantic TV executives scramble to try figure out to do, while having promised TIMEX, of all companies that their heavily promoted show would play on time. I was six at the time and football would have been on at our house. And my year-and-a-half older sister, who loves football to this day… I wonder what she remembers? And that the game goes dow in history to be considered one of the best games ever, and if the network had just waited seven minutes this would all be forgotten. And the movie today seems so cloying, at least to the part where Heidi was hugging the poor sick goat so football high energy fans might riot to get thegame bach K fan ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4954 "2022-02-18T16:02:21Z")
Charles drank a glass of milk. This was big news. Why? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4955 "2022-02-18T16:13:39Z")
Is Charles a human? ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4956 "2022-02-18T16:17:29Z")
Did this event happen a long time ago? 20th century? pre-20th century? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4957 "2022-02-18T16:31:48Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Is Charles a human? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4958 "2022-02-18T16:32:36Z")
Is “milk” the milk of a cow? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4959 "2022-02-18T16:32:39Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Did this event happen a long time ago? 20th century? pre-20th century? Yes to 20th century ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4960 "2022-02-18T16:33:22Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Is “milk” the milk of a cow? Yes ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4961 "2022-02-18T17:21:08Z")
Was it from a special cow? Was Charles on a TV show? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/4962 "2022-02-18T17:23:02Z")
Was Charles a prominent public figure? Was it newsworthy because of his reason for drinking the milk, whatever it might have been? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193.md?page=247) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193.md?page=249)