Lateral Thinking Puzzles

25. In the Mountains There is a Cabin..

in the mountains there is a cabin.inside,three people lie dead.the cabin is locked from the inside and all three died at the same time.altough there is no sign of a struggle or of any weapon,their deaths were violent but accidental.they knew they were going to die immediately before they died.they died because they were in the cabin.if they had gotten out of the cabin three hours earlier they would have lived.what happened???

Submitted by tartle · Added 29 November 2010

Solution:

The three people were trapped in a cabin during a heavy snowstorm. They died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a malfunctioning heater or stove, which they had been using for warmth. If they had left the cabin three hours earlier, they would have avoided the storm and survived.


Comments (8)

bangquito 12 December 2010

There was a volcanic eruptions?

Lulu14 19 December 2010

There was a gas leak :?:

dms2008 20 December 2010

Maybe there was an avalanche?

mmm8z 5 April 2011

Was it a plane crash?

cat 4 July 2011

The cabin is a wooden A-frame with a very high ceiling and a leaky roof. The light bulb in the ceiling finally burned out. The men got the special very tall step ladder out and one of them climbed to the top to change the bulb.

When he got there, he found he could not turn the bulb because it was rusted into the fixture. The other two men therefore grabbed the bottoms of the ladder and tried to turn it with the man on it. This actually worked, but when the rust suddenly broke the wobbly ladder jerked and fell over.

The ladder crushed the two men at the bottom, and the man on top fell to his death.

Akoito 29 January 2013

Dehydration can kill you in thrree hours if the place is hot. It's either the cabin heater broke and the the temp is high and they could not turn-it-off because the gauge is outside the cabin, they were not able to get out because the door is jammed, so they knew they are going to die and they just did after 3 hours.

awdeshpande 29 January 2013

These three people were walking in the mountains when they were attacked by a bear. They run to the cabin that they can see and enter and lock it from the inside. The bear sits outside waiting. It starts snowing heavily and the bear cannot be seen. Maybe he was gone. They wait for three hours. The weight of the snow on the roof of the cabin becomes so much that the roof starts to collapse. They realize that they are going to die. The roof collapses and they die.

Momof5 15 February 2013

They are in a plane cabin, and were killed in a plane crash.

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