Here are six new lateral thinking puzzles -- play along with us as we try to untangle some perplexing situations using yes-or-no questions.
Here are the sources for this week's puzzles. 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 contributed by listener Amy Howard.
Puzzle #2 was suggested by an item on the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish. Here are some corroborating links: 1, 2, 3, 4
Puzzle #3 was inspired by an item in Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella's 2015 book A History of Heists, and here's a link.
Puzzle #4 was devised by Sharon. Here are two links; note that both contain some nudity.
Puzzle #5 is from listener Justin Sabe, who was inspired by an item on the podcast 99% Invisible.
Puzzle #6 is from listener Sam Dyck, who sent these links.
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365-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
364-Sidney Cotton's Aerial Reconnaissance
363-The Lambeth Poisoner
362-The Leatherman
361-A Fight Over Nutmeg
360-Haggard's Dream
359-Stranded in Shangri-La
358-The Radium Girls
357-Scenes From an Earthquake
356-A Strawberry's Journey
355-The Auckland Islands Castaways
354-Falling Through a Thunderstorm
353-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
352-A Victorian Hippopotamus
351-Notes and Queries
350-Symmes' Hole
349-The National Hotel Disease
348-Who Killed the Red Baron?
347-The Cottingley Fairies
346-A Desperate Winter in Antarctica
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