Lateral Thinking Puzzles

man is very short. can't reach button for 11.

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Another classic:
10) Whodunit?
A policeman was walking past a house. He heard someone cry, "Don't shoot me, John! Don't shoot!" There was one gunshot. The policeman entered the house and saw a lawyer, priest, and an engineer, gathered around a dead body. The priest was immediately arrested.
How did the policeman know?

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Originally Posted by Ally Graham

5) The Broken Match
A man is found dead in a field. He is clutching a broken match. What happened?

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Just got back from the cottage, figured it out on the drive up.

He was in a balloon with a bunch of other people and they were losing altitude. For some reason, they couldn't land and had to stay in the air, so they had to drop some weight. They "drew straws" with matchsticks, he lost, he got the boot.

Near spot on!

Here's my feeble attempt at solving this :)

A rich businessman was in a small lightweight plane and decided to light himself a cigar during the flight. He took a wooden match (cigar afficianados swear by those) and scratched it on the door in a casual display of style, but pressed too hard and the match snapped, his finger slipping to hit the "door release" button. The subsequent air pressure vacuum sucked him out of the plane.

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Originally Posted by Ally Graham

10) Whodunit?
A policeman was walking past a house. He heard someone cry, "Don't shoot me, John! Don't shoot!" There was one gunshot. The policeman entered the house and saw a lawyer, priest, and an engineer, gathered around a dead body. The priest was immediately arrested.
How did the policeman know?

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There's so many possible answers to this.
1) The priest was holding a smoking gun.
2) Those 3 guys had nametags on.
3) The cop knew either the priest (one of the congregation, perhaps?) or both the lawyer and the engineer. It's easy to know who "John" is in this case.

Those are the 3 most likely, I imagine #3 is the one suggested by the puzzle.

I think the lawyer and the engineer are women. Priests usually aren't. ;)

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Originally Posted by xEik

I think the lawyer and the engineer are women. Priests usually aren't. ;)

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Correct!

Next puzzle coming later.

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Originally Posted by Ally Graham

9) The man in the Elevator
A man lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every day he takes the elevator to go down to the ground floor to go to work or to go shopping. When he returns he takes the elevator to the seventh floor and walks up the stairs to reach his apartment on the tenth floor. He hates walking so why does he do it?

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Every evening when he gets home a fat lunatic gets on the lift at a middle floor, sits on him, and slaps his cheeks to the tune of Bonanza for the rest of the night. To avoid this he has to get out before the lunatic's floor and walk the rest of the way.#

i wanna do a test. you can either have the daft answer or the proper one lol

A hunter aimed his gun carefully and fired. Seconds later, he realised his mistake. Minutes later, he was dead. Explain