Lateral Thinking

Q: A married couple went to a movie and the husband strangled the wife during the show. How was he able to get her body home without attracting attention?

A: The movie was at a drive-in theater, and their car had tinted windows.

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Q: You can take away the whole and still have some left. You can take away some and still have the whole left. What is it?

A: The word ‘wholesome’

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Q: Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister in the state of California?

A: Probably not, since he’s dead.

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Q: A woman proves in court that her husband was murdered by her sister, but the judge decides that the sister cannot be punished. Why?

A: The sisters are Siamese twins.

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Q: A man had twelve toothpicks in front of him. He took one away. Now he had nine in front of him. How is this possible?

A: The remaining 11 toothpicks were arranged to spell the word NINE.

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Q: The maker doesn’t want it. The buyer doesn’t use it. The user never sees it. What is it?

A: A coffin.

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Q: A man pushes a wheelbarrow past a hotel, and sighs with relief – why?

A: He was playing Monopoly, the wheelbarrow was his piece, and he was relieved he didn’t have to pay a huge rent

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Q: There are three boxes. One is labeled “APPLES” another is labeled “ORANGES”. The last one is labeled “APPLES AND ORANGES”. You know that each is labeled incorrectly. You may ask me to pick one fruit from one box which you choose. How can you label the boxes correctly?

A: Pick from the one labeled “Apples & Oranges”. This box must contain either only apples or only oranges. E.g. if you find an Orange, label the box Orange, then change the Oranges box to Apples, and the Apples box to “Apples & Oranges”

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Q: You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

A: An ear of corn or a chicken.

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Q: Bad Boy Bubby was warned by his mother never to open the cellar door or he would see things that he was not meant to see. One day while his mother was out he did open the cellar door. What did he see?

A: When Bad Boy Bubby opened the cellar door he saw the living room and, through its windows, the garden. He had never seen these before because his mother had kept him all his life in the cellar.