Lateral Thinking Puzzles

26. Escape

You wake up in a square room that has no windows no doors and seemingly no exits. The only objects in the room are a lantern hanging from the ceiling providing the only light, a table and a hand saw. The walls ceiling and floor are made of a extremely dense material one that has a texture of something unknown. How do you escape the room ?

Submitted by dante · Added 19 December 2014

Hint:

use your imagination think outside of reality.

Solution:

Cut the table in half; two halves make a whole (hole), and you can step through it to escape the room.


Comments (6)

Qwerty123 13 April 2015

Turn off the light...now u are no more in a square room...

Neutronicz 20 May 2016

Got it.

All you have to do is cut the table in half with the saw. After that, you put the two halves together to make a whole (hole) and step through.

The_Detective 3 December 2016

Easy. Kill yourself with the handsaw and you will escape the room to heaven or hell. If you aren't a believer in religion, then perhaps the people will eventually find you in the room, sack you, and bury you in a nice graveyard. Nothing lasts forever.

PurpleGiraffe 20 March 2018

Mathematical approach: I define my side of the room as outside, so that I am no longer in the room. Everyone else suddenly is, though.

bedead 31 May 2018

Cut the table in half, 2 halves make a hole, climb through the hole and scream til your voice becomes horse, get on the horse and ride away

tortle 31 May 2018

Hah! I scoff at how easy this riddle is!

Clearly, I need only to scream until my parents let me out. This worked for me since I was two years old and my parents locked me in a room just like this without food or water for weeks. I can't believe all the false answer. Like, how easy is this?! People are hilarious

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