247-Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Futility Closet

Greg Ross

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4.8 • 748 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Here are six new lateral thinking puzzles -- play along with us as we try to untangle some perplexing situations using yes-or-no questions.

The sources for this week's puzzles are below. In a few places we've included links to further information -- these contain spoilers, so don't click until you've listened to the episode:

Puzzle #1 was suggested by an item on the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish. Here are two corroborating links.

Puzzle #2 is by Greg. Here's a link.

Puzzle #3 was suggested by an item in Dan Lewis' Now I Know enewsletter. Here are two links.

Puzzle #4 is from Greg.

Puzzle #5 is from Sharon.

Puzzle #6 was contributed by listener David White, who sent this link.

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0:00.0	Hello, listeners, here's another special episode of lateral thinking puzzles. These are puzzles
0:04.5	where one of us describes a strange sounding situation and the other has to work out what's going
0:09.2	on, asking only yes or no questions. And thanks so much to everyone who's been sending in puzzles
0:14.4	for us to try. We can always use more, so please do keep sending them to podcast at futilitycloset.com.
0:21.3	We hope you enjoy these, and we'll be back next week with another dose of quirky history
0:25.7	and another lateral thinking puzzle.
0:28.8	This puzzle is based on something that I heard on the podcast, no such thing as a fish.
0:33.9	In 2017, someone paid 2,000 pounds for several signatures, even though the buyer knew that most of them were fake.
0:41.6	Why?
0:43.0	Most of them were fake.
0:43.8	Did they know that some of them then were authentic?
0:45.9	And maybe those were so valuable that they outweighed the cost of the duds?
0:49.5	No.
0:50.0	That's not it.
0:50.6	That's not it.
0:52.1	Okay.
0:52.7	2,000 pounds for how many did you say?
0:54.5	Several signatures.
0:55.3	When we say signatures, we mean someone's autograph, a written.
0:59.0	Yes.
1:01.5	Does it matter where this happened?
1:03.3	Would it help me to know, well, answer that question?
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