# Lateral Thinking Puzzles - third time is best! **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214 **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:** 1 **Showing post:** 3498
### 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: [June 25, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214/3498 "2025-06-25T01:35:54Z")
Yup, I knew about it because I had experienced the same thing, and had the same moment of “Wait, what? Oh, that makes sense.”. > [@Alternate NATO alphabet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-nato-alphabet/975636): > > I was at the airport the other day, and there was a tram to take passengers from one terminal to the next. At each spot, a recorded voice would say “Next stop A gates, A as in Alpha”. And so on, with “B as in Bravo”, “C as in Charlie”, “D as in David”, “E as in Echo”, and “F as in Foxtrot” (and there the train ended). Wait… David? But when I thought about it, it made sense: If they had used the standard “Delta”, it would have caused confusion with Delta Airlines. But then it occurred to m… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-third-time-is-best/987214)._