Ceres?
Asteroid?
dwarf planet ?
Because Pluto is no longer a planet?
(This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.)
Edit - ninja’d
That’s it! Excellent job, everyone who got that.
(As for schoolchildren knowing that, my understanding is that kids these days are taught the dwarf planets in addition to the planets. But I could be wrong. Certainly an upgrade from asteroid, though.)
I think this might be the first time in my life that I’ve been the Ninja rather than the Ninja’d
I have an easy one but its too late tonight to start it so I’ll post ti tomorrow.
I was out running errands when I suddenly realized that my keys weren’t in my pocket, I had a moment of panic as I wondered where I had left them and how I was going get in to my house. But then I realized what happened, calmed down, ran errands uninterrupted, and went home without a worry. Where were my keys?
Speaking from personal experience, were they in the ignition?
Yup. I said it was an easy one. This happens to me all the time.
Okay, here’s a lateral thinking puzzle. No hints. You’ve got enough information to solve it.
::::::::?
Colonoscopy?
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;.
Nope.
I don’t think so. Explain your thinking.
Eight colons = sixteen semicolons, but I guess that’s not the way to go.
Inventive, but no.
Reference to a song? (We’re on a Road to Nowhere)
Nope.
I’m going to attempt to ask broader questions.
Does the puzzle begin with the ::::: section or is “No hints. You’ve got…” part of the puzzle?
Is the answer a common phrase?
Is this a standard lateral puzzle or more like a “say what you see” puzzle? Or neither?
Does the word “colon” appear in the answer?
It is a puzzle that can be solved by lateral thinking. It is, however, a different type of puzzle to the Q&A ones.
The puzzle is ::::::::? the rest is just description.
Does the word colon appear? No hints. You tell me. All the information you need is right there.
Batman!
Nope.
Well, okay; but that would in fact be my response, if someone walked up to me and correctly intoned, “Dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot?”
The day the Beaumont sextuplets joined Miss Clavel’s class and they became 18 little girls in 2 straight lines (with the smallest one, Madeline, wandering off as she always does)?
Seventeen bees standing in formation and one flying away?
A dance notation for the beginning of the dance where just one dancer has started with a big rond de jambe?
The answer is no?
The answer is yes?