# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 283
**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:** [July 18, 2023, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/5648 "2023-07-18T10:34:24Z")
Does the deceased animal have its own zip code because of its celebrity status when it was alive? Is the animal buried? Do people go to visit the animal? ---
**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:** [July 18, 2023, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/5649 "2023-07-18T11:02:07Z")
reply to Cheesesteak: Does the deceased animal have its own zip code because of its celebrity status when it was alive? Yes. Is the animal buried? Yes. Do people go to visit the animal? 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:** [July 18, 2023, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/5650 "2023-07-18T11:47:34Z")
Is the animal related in some way to the post office? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/5651 "2023-07-18T12:10:09Z")
Is it Smokey Bear? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/5652 "2023-07-18T12:16:58Z")
Buffalo? ---
**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:** [July 18, 2023, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/5653 "2023-07-18T12:24:50Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Is it Smokey Bear? YES! Zip code 20252 is exclusively Smokey Bear’s. At one time Smokey Bear at the Washington Zoo got more mail than the president. He was given his own zip code by the postal service and still has it today despite being dead and buried in New Mexico. Write Smokey Bear today! He and the president are the only ones with their own unique 5-digit zip codes. Thanks for playing all. Now if someone could explain why Smokey Bear carries a shovel…? ---
**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:** [July 18, 2023, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/5654 "2023-07-18T12:27:51Z")
I assume for burying the remnants of a campfire, so that an unnoticed ember that’s still burning won’t cause a new fire that might spread? I mean, that’s what he would tell you to do. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2023, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/5655 "2023-07-18T13:30:11Z")
**Note: I will be posting a new lateral thinking puzzle later today. I will also create a new thread since this one is getting older now.** Look for it today! This was fun. Edit: Here is the new post > [@Lateral Thinking Puzzles - third time is best!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/2): > > New puzzle: Igor was a troll, vicious and cruel. All who met him feared him. But unlike most trolls, he had a unique reason for his cruelty and meanness. What was it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193.md?page=282)