Tom Scott runs a Podcast (and formerly a gameshow) called Lateral, which is basically all lateral thinking puzzles. I highly recommend it.
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I'm not familiar with lateral thinking, but this reads like a joke... Is it intended to be funny, or are you actually expected to come up with all of those answers?
You are indeed expected to come up with all those answers. Usually someone who already knows the answer asks the questions to you in person, and you guess until you get it right. Slowly, you realize the answers all have to do with the previous questions, and it makes it easier to think creatively hahaha. I wish I knew more than just this series of questions, but these are harder to come up with than it seems like lol.
So it's basically an exercise to promote creative thinking?
This is not lateral thinking.
That's not a lateral thinking problem. You could argue it's a joke, but it's certainly not a lateral thinking problem.
If a brick falls out of a plane unexpectedly, there's bigger problems. There must at least be a brick sized hole in the pressurized hull.
Combine that with the cargo being unsecured, this prone to shifting whilst manouvering, there's certainly cause for distress aboard the plane.
This just doesn't make any sense. If a brick can fly, why did it get on an airplane? And if it fell out, why didn't it just fly back in?
The brick isn’t flying. It’s falling…with style
Dad not now im trying to break the record for worlds longest shit
I remember we have one in German, but it's more about language...
you ask a bunch of questions ghat the answer are different colors, and when they are all used to saying colour's, if you ask them what a cow gives, they'll probably say white. Of course, this was in 2nd grade.
Nah, the original is a bit different. After a bunch of color-questions (asked in high speed) you ask „What does the cow drink?“
Many people will answer „milk“, being smart and not saying „white“. But of course it’s „water“
Why is the thing you're looking for always in the last place you look?
Because they're being carried by an old lady!