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There is a man who was in a terrible plane crash, he has had all his legs and arms amputated and he can not speak. He must find a way to communicate with other people. Can you find a solution?
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A woman is cooking a meal but she is holding her baby at the same time, the phone is ringing and if she picks up the phone the food will burn and she can't let go of her baby. What should she do?
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A man was driving his car along a highway and has broken down, it is in the middle of the night and there are no cars around. The motor is broken and he doesn't know how to fix it also the mobile phone cannot get a signal. What can he do?
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It is night time and the electricity in the house has been shut off, there are no lights and it is very dark. A boy is reading a book even though it is pitch black, how is it possible for him to read a book?
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A woman has guests coming to visit her in twenty minutes and she has forgotten to prepare a meal. She has many vegetables in her fridge but it will take a long time to cook the food or to order out, what should she do?
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A doctor has a patient who is going to die but he can't tell that patient that they're going to die. No matter what the doctor does to communicate the patient just won't understand. Why can't the patient understand?
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A very old married couple have never had a quarrel in their relationship, people say that it is impossible that married couples never quarrel. What possible reason why an old married couple have never had a quarrel?
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An air plane crashed into a building but for some reason there was no damage to the building, no explosion, nobody was hurt or killed. Why was there no problems when the air plane hit the building?
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This house has no electricity but the occupants are able to keep their milk and food very cold without using a refrigerator. How can people have a house without electricity that a refrigerator won't work but still are able to store food cold and keep it frozen as well?
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This man drinks wine all day long and he never gets drunk, what type of person drinks wine all day but never has the affect of being drunk?
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An astronaut landed his rocket and he doesn't know where he is, the people who found him think he is very strange and became frighten so they killed him, what planet did he land on?
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A room has broken windows and the shattered glass is inside the room which means the windows were broken from the outside. There is no rocks inside the room that could have smashed the window but there is a lot of water in the room, How did the windows get broken?
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A car is traveling at 1000 kilometres an hour but a ball is traveling at 1010 kilometres an hour. How is it possible for a ball to travel faster than the car?
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A woman had just given birth to a baby but she is not the mother, how can she have a baby but not her own child?
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A man is inside four concrete walls and the floor is also made out of concrete but there is no door and no windows. How can he get out and he doesn't have tools to dig or break the walls and floor?
These are possible answers.
1: he can blink or write using a pen in his mouth.
2: she doesn't need to answer the phone.
3: he can walk home.
4: the boy is blind and is reading brail.
5: she can make salad.
6: he is a vet and the patient is an animal.
7: the old couple are newly weds.
8: it was a paper plane.
9: it is an igloo.
10: he is a wine taster so he spits out the wine.
11: earth and the people lived on an isolated island.
12: someone threw ice.
13: the driver threw the ball while the car was moving.
14: she is a surrogate mother.
15: there is no roof.