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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!

Sep-14-2006 05:45

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

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

Are the numbers of askers or answerers relevant in any way? [No]

Would the story work if the askers were not grown? [No] men? [Yes]

did they ask to see people's reactions? [Yes]

But there was *something* relevant about the askers' clothing, correct? [Yes]

Were the askers all wearing the same clothing? [Yes] Did the clothing have some kind of message, either overt or implied? [I wouldn't say the clothing had a message.]

Was the clothing some kind of recognizable uniform? [Yes]

If the clothing was some kind of uniform, was it the type that specifically belonged to people in a specific job? [Yes] career? [Could be] specific job type? [Yes]

Were they interested in how peopel answered in terms of an accent? [No, but excellent question.]

Barry

Sep-14-2006 06:18

were they advertising something, or promoting a product?

Sep-14-2006 06:19

were they advertising something, or promoting a product? [No]

Sep-14-2006 06:46

Were the men asking other questions? Were they along the same theme? Are the questions random?

Was there any connections between the people they were asking? Or were they asking random people (Like stopping people in the street)?

Sep-14-2006 08:27

Were the men asking other questions? Were they along the same theme? Are the questions random? [No to all]

Was there any connections between the people they were asking? [Yes] Or were they asking random people (Like stopping people in the street)? [No]

Sep-14-2006 11:28

Were they asking people of a particular age?
Gender?
Social Status?
Occupation?
Other?

Sep-14-2006 11:32

Were they asking people of a particular age? [No]
Gender? [I think, if not all, the majority would be male.]
Social Status? [No]
Occupation? [Sort of]
Other? [That's the Sort of]

Sep-14-2006 12:22

the majority would be male... were the people they asked fathers? maybe priests? monks? soldiers? sailors? :D

Sep-14-2006 13:49

the majority would be male... were the people they asked fathers? [No] maybe priests? [No] monks? [No] soldiers? [Yes. Yeah!] sailors? [I don't think so.] :D

Sep-14-2006 14:59

*guess*

Were the grown men American soldiers (or some other official goverment-military worker) asking returning "American" soldiers the Minnie Mouse question in order to ferret out potential spies during a war (Cold or otherwise)?