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It seems easy, and some are easy. Others however are not so easy and may require a lot of mental effort

• Gone with the wind
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In the middle of the desert there is a barn in front of which a truck is parked. In the barn you find a hanged man dangling 3 meters above the ground. There are no ladders or other tools that could indicate how the man got there.
Only his footprints are found in the sand in front of the barn.

How did the man come to his death?Paragraph. 

The man was tired of his life and committed suicide. With a refrigerated truck loaded with large blocks of ice, he sought a secluded place to die. He unloaded the ice blocks, stacked them in the barn, climbed up the ice blocks and hanged himself. A few days later, due to the intense heat, the ice melted and the water evaporated.Text steht hier

• Reading in the dark
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Late in the evening, a man comes home. It is already dark. After he closes the front door behind him, the lights go out all over the house. It is pitch black in the house. The man sits down at the table and reads the newspaper.

The man is blind.

• Be honest
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At a fork in the road sit two posts, one of which gives a false answer to every question and the other always tells the truth. The questioner cannot tell who is telling the truth and who is lying.

What question must be asked of one of the two posts to find out whether the path taken is the right one?

Would your colleague say that the path taken is the right one?

• Light switch
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You are on the 1st floor of a house in a room with three light switches. You may press the switches as often and as long as you want. The lamp in the basement is off. You know that only one switch can make the lamp in the basement light up. Which one it is, you don't know. And you may only go to the basement once to check.

Tip: When the lamp is on, it gets hot!

You press switch 1 and wait 10 minutes. Then press switch 2 and go to the basement. If there is light in the basement now, switch 2 is the basement light switch. If there is no light, but the bulb is warm, switch 1 is the basement light switch. If the light is off and the light bulb is cold, then switch 3 is the basement light switch.

• Poor dredger
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Why can't excavators swim?
Tip: Its force is not distributed symmetricallyParagraph.

They all have only one arm!

• Walking on water
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Fritzl claims he can walk on water?
How does he do that?

Fritzl lives in Austria and regularly walks on water in winter!

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

• The time paradox
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Mia takes the bus to the university every day. She can choose between the S1 and S2 lines. Both lines run every 20 minutes.
Since she never looks at her watch when she leaves her apartment, she simply takes the first express train that comes along. After a while, she notices that she takes line S2 four times more often than line S1.
Line S2 always leaves on the hour and then every 20 minutes.

How can this be? What is the time interval between lines S1 and S2?

Line S1 leaves 4 minutes "later" than line S2.
If the bus of line S2 leaves at 9:00, then the bus of line S1 leaves at 9:04.

• Four daughters
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Mrs. Parker has four daughters. Each of her daughters has two brothers. How many children does Mrs. Parker have.

Six children. Four daughters and two sons.