# Lateral Thinking Puzzles - third time is best! **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 18, 2023, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214 "2023-07-18T13:39:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 204
**Author:** ![Ana\_Byrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ana\_Byrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ana_Byrd)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4061 "2025-11-27T06:32:42Z")
Is it flooding? ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4062 "2025-11-27T06:34:24Z")
When a tornado comes and rips the rest of the house off? ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4063 "2025-11-27T06:44:46Z")
> [@kk\_fusion](#): > > Are you near an underground stream? > > Can you detect air pressure? No and Not directly, I don’t have a barometer but I cannot say no to this. ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4064 "2025-11-27T06:45:12Z")
> [@Ana\_Byrd](#): > > Is it flooding? awesome! made be giggle…..No ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4065 "2025-11-27T06:45:31Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > When a tornado comes and rips the rest of the house off? also no. ---
**Author:** ![kk\_fusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kk_fusion/32/15276_2.png) [@kk\_fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kk_fusion)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4066 "2025-11-27T07:15:24Z")
If you lived underwater in a pressurized dome, would you still be able to gauge that one aspect of surface weather? ---
**Author:** ![Ana\_Byrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ana\_Byrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ana_Byrd)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4067 "2025-11-27T07:17:17Z")
Can you sense low pressure by how long it takes your tea to boil? ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4068 "2025-11-27T13:21:26Z")
> [@kk\_fusion](#): > > If you lived underwater in a pressurized dome, would you still be able to gauge that one aspect of surface weather? no. I should emphasize that the house has all the normally built infrastructure, Electricity is hooked to the mains, plumbing and sewer hooked to city water and sewer, gas lines come in from outside to run the oven/stove water heater, ventilation draws outside air, conditions it and expels, all just like a normal house. etc. ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4069 "2025-11-27T13:23:16Z")
> [@Ana\_Byrd](#): > > Can you sense low pressure by how long it takes your tea to boil? what a good idea, but no. or rather, that might work, but its not the solution I was driving for A drop in atmospheric air pressure as normally read by a barometer to predict weather, but air pressure is indirectly involved as mentioned up thread ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4070 "2025-11-27T13:51:23Z")
> [@Sigene](#): > > A drop in atmospheric air pressure as normally read by a barometer to predict weather, but air pressure is indirectly involved as mentioned up thread should read: A drop in atmospheric air pressure as normally read by a barometer to predict weather _is not the phenomena,_ but air pressure is indirectly involved as mentioned up thread ---
**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, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4071 "2025-11-27T14:21:52Z")
Is any animal or other living being involved? ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4072 "2025-11-27T14:25:25Z")
> Is any animal or other living being involved? No (adding five characters to appease the bot) ---
**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:** [November 27, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4073 "2025-11-27T14:37:41Z")
> [@Sigene](#): > > but air pressure is indirectly involved as mentioned up thread Does the puzzle involve the standard air pressure interpretation: high pressure means good weather and low pressure means bad weather. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4074 "2025-11-27T14:45:09Z")
Does the answer have anything to do with observing the rate of water evaporation? ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4075 "2025-11-27T14:49:15Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Does the puzzle involve the standard air pressure interpretation: high pressure means good weather and low pressure means bad weather. no. It does not involve standard air pressure interpretation for good weather or bad ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4076 "2025-11-27T14:50:04Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > Does the answer have anything to do with observing the rate of water evaporation? It does not. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4077 "2025-11-27T15:02:36Z")
> [@Sigene](#): > > ventilation draws outside air Smog? ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4078 "2025-11-27T16:22:47Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Smog? Not smog I’ll drop a couple of clues after a while ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4079 "2025-11-27T16:25:13Z")
as a clue, or maybe its going to be an obfuscation….. I note that I can detect the weather phenomena as it is happening….AND, if I happened to have slept through it or something, I can also detect that it had happened a few hours ago. ---
**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, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/4080 "2025-11-27T16:44:47Z")
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