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| Paul Sloane (Admin)
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Outstanding Lateral Thinking Puzzles is the latest book in the series by Paul Sloane and Des MacHale. It has just been released and here is a puzzle it contains: The Detective arrived at the scene of the crime, turned to his assistant and said, 'We are looking for someone with the initials A and S.' How did he know? The book contains some puzzles that first appeared on this forum and acknowledgement is made to Torgeir Apeland, Lynne Payne, Kate Fallon, Felicia Ackerman, Brian Hobbs, David Burn and Jason Burge. The book is available here: Amazon.com And in the UK on my website here: Destination Innovation It has some great puzzles and would make a marvellous present! | ||
| Jennifer (Tigger32382)
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The obvious questions first: did the initials A and S appear anywhere in the scene of the crime? Is it relevant what the crime was? If so: robbery? murder? Vandalism? Fraud? | ||
| Paul Sloane (Admin)
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Acknowledgements Of course everyone whose puzzle appears gave their permission first. | ||
| Paul Sloane (Admin)
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Jennifer, The obvious questions first: did the initials A and S appear anywhere in the scene of the crime? NO Is it relevant what the crime was? YES If so: robbery? murder? Vandalism? Fraud? YES, NO, YES, NO | ||
| Jennifer (Tigger32382)
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relevant what was vandalized and robbed? a bank? a store? a business? someone's home? were any fingerprints left? a keyboard relevant? was this an isolated incident? or had there been a series of crimes? | ||
| Lisa (Dlcygnet)
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Was it a jewelry store? Were articles of jewelry stolen with those initials? Was SOMETHING stolen that would have been A and/or S specific? Like a custom bathrobe? A license plate key chain? The sort of thing you wouldn't want unless it carried your name or your initials? | ||
| Paul Sloane (Admin)
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Jennifer and Lisa, relevant what was vandalized and robbed? YES a bank? a store? a business? someone's home? were any fingerprints left? a keyboard relevant? NO was this an isolated incident? or had there been a series of crimes? YES, NO Was it a jewelry store? Were articles of jewelry stolen with those initials? NO Was SOMETHING stolen that would have been A and/or S specific? YES Like a custom bathrobe? A license plate key chain? The sort of thing you wouldn't want unless it carried your name or your initials? NO | ||
| Vae (Vaetrus)
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Museum involved? (Some weird inkling...) Is the robbery involving a custom item? Something customable/custom-made, or rare? Is it important who the dectective and/or the assistant is? | ||
| Jennifer (Tigger32382)
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were the initials on the stolen thing? hmm, not a bank, store, business or a home... a hospital? a not-for-profit? a car? | ||
| Lauren (Lauren)
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Was there only one thing stolen? Two things? Three things? More? Were the letters A and S stolen from a pile of letters? Something similar? | ||
| Lauren (Lauren)
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Ooh, ooh wait, did the Detective do it? And his initials are A.S., and therefore he knew? :P Even if not, does the Detective know who it is? The person they are looking for = the vandal? Apologies for double posting... | ||
| Paul Sloane (Admin)
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Vae and Jennifer, Museum involved? (Some weird inkling...) NO Is the robbery involving a custom item? Something customable/custom-made, or rare? NOT REALLY Is it important who the dectective and/or the assistant is? NO were the initials on the stolen thing? YES hmm, not a bank, store, business or a home... a hospital? a not-for-profit? a car? NO | ||
| Birgitta Ericsson (Brid)
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What was robbed: a building? a vehicle? a single person? Was one item stolen? If so, was it smaller than a computer mouse? smaller than a computer screen? smaller than a car? | ||
| Paul Sloane (Admin)
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Birgitta, What was robbed: a building? a vehicle? a single person? YES, NO, NO Was one item stolen? NO If so, was it smaller than a computer mouse? smaller than a computer screen? smaller than a car? NO, NO, YES | ||
| Birgitta Ericsson (Brid)
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A building that is not a home, bank, store, business or hospital... An empty house? A train station or similar? A school? A dog's kennel? Was the stolen item one that you might expect to be stolen, once you heard something was stolen from the place? Was it, perchance, a computer? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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Were there other items left behind with letters on them making it obvious that A and S were the ones stolen? | ||
| Vae (Vaetrus)
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A building constructed to be an image of the initials? A farmhouse? barn? silo? (farm or military?) A town sign, like "Hollywood", where the initials A and S were missing, and therefore aren't at the scene? Mississauga relevant? Zanibar? Outta towns now, :S. | ||
| Haenlomal (Haenlomal)
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Hey Paul, you missed Lauren's questions on October 13th, 8:24pm and 8:27pm Was the place robbed and vandalized a government building? A commercial building? A residential building? Did the robbery and vandalization take place at the same place? | ||
| Paul Sloane (Admin)
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Birgetta and Lynne, A building that is not a home, bank, store, business or hospital... An empty house? A train station or similar? A school? A dog's kennel? NO TO THOSE Was the stolen item one that you might expect to be stolen, once you heard something was stolen from the place? Was it, perchance, a computer? NO, NO Were there other items left behind with letters on them making it obvious that A and S were the ones stolen? YES | ||
| Paul Sloane (Admin)
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VAE, A building constructed to be an image of the initials? NO A farmhouse? barn? silo? (farm or military?) NO A town sign, like "Hollywood", where the initials A and S were missing, and therefore aren't at the scene? NO Mississauga relevant? Zanibar? Outta towns now, :S. NO | ||
| Paul Sloane (Admin)
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HAEN, Was the place robbed and vandalized a government building? A commercial building? A residential building? YES, NO, NO Did the robbery and vandalization take place at the same place? YES | ||
| Barbara Johannessen Bailey (Rabrab)
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Were pieces of paper taken in the robbery? Were computers involved in the vandalism? |
