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Barry Grant
Barry Grant
Old Shoe

Sep-10-2006 18:25

Due to the success of the lateral puzzles in the "A riddle" thread, it seems appropriate to start a lateral thinking puzzle thread.

A rule of thumb to follow would be to allow those who do not know the answer to figure it out for themselves. If you happen to know the answer, please keep it to yourself and let the others have the fun.

Please feel free to start one at any point. It is not necessary to wait for one to finish before starting another one.

Have fun!

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Barry Grant
Barry Grant
Old Shoe

Sep-13-2006 04:31

Is the name Minnie more important than the character Minnie in this riddle? [No]

As a rephrase of a previous question (for clarification)... the men were attempting to accomplish something other than determining if people knew who Mickey's girlfriend was? [Yes]

Were the men trying to get people to say the word Minnie for some reason? [Yes]
As some form of joke perhaps? [No]

Does the location have anything substantial to do with Disney? Such as Disneyland or Walt Disney World? [No to all]

Based on a true story? [Yes, which is why I thought it might be easy.]

Were they in Disneyland/Disney World and trying to find out who was inside the "Minnie Mouse" costume? Maybe it was a young lady they wanted to meet? [No to all]

Serges
Serges
Vigilante

Sep-13-2006 04:41

Are the identities of the people they were asking relevant in any way?

Is this story something famous enough that the average person stands a good chance of knowing about it?

Were the grown men attempting to prove something by asking the question?

Is the wording of the actual question asked relevant?

Barry Grant
Barry Grant
Old Shoe

Sep-13-2006 04:51

Are the identities of the people they were asking relevant in any way? [Yes]

Is this story something famous enough that the average person stands a good chance of knowing about it? [I consider myself average and I didn't know.]

Were the grown men attempting to prove something by asking the question? [Yes]

Is the wording of the actual question asked relevant? [No]

Serges
Serges
Vigilante

Sep-13-2006 12:56

Are the identities of the questionees relevant because of some demographic factor-- age, gender, race, appearance, culture, geographic location? If not, is the number of people asked relevant?

Did they ask any other relevant questions?

Other than Mickey/Minnie Mouse, is Disney relevant in any way?

Barry Grant
Barry Grant
Old Shoe

Sep-13-2006 13:24

Are the identities of the questionees relevant [Yes] because of some demographic factor-- age [No], gender [No], race [No], appearance [Yes], culture [No], geographic location [Yes]? If not, is the number of people asked relevant? [No]

Did they ask any other relevant questions? [No]

Other than Mickey/Minnie Mouse, is Disney relevant in any way? [No]


Serges
Serges
Vigilante

Sep-13-2006 13:27

Oy... hate to pull this trick, but...

Is the location fictional?

If not, is it in the northern hemisphere? western hemisphere? southern hemisphere, eastern hemisphere?

On North America? South America? Europe? Asia? Africa? Australia? Elsewhere?

In a major city? Small town? Rural area?

Barry Grant
Barry Grant
Old Shoe

Sep-13-2006 13:52

Is the location fictional? [No]

On North America [Yes*] ? South America? Europe [Yes*]? Asia [Yes*]? Africa [Yes*]? Australia? Elsewhere [Yes*]? [The rest: No]

In a major city? Small town? Rural area? [Irrelevant]

*The answer I have doesn't place it in a specific location, but taking the answer into consideration and researching it, these are the places where it could have occurred. As a result, the physical location is not relevant.

Clara Dark
Clara Dark
Nomad

Sep-13-2006 14:34

were the grown men conducting a survey?

Barry Grant
Barry Grant
Old Shoe

Sep-13-2006 14:39

were the grown men conducting a survey? [No]

Serges
Serges
Vigilante

Sep-13-2006 15:27

Were the performing some other kind of job by asking these questions?

Was there a particularly methodoloy to who they did/not ask?

Are the numbers of askers or answerers relevant in any way?

Would the story work if the askers were not grown? men?

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