2. A woman has incontrovertible proof in court that her husband was murdered by her sister. Both the woman and her sister are before the Judge. The judge declares, "This is the strangest case I've ever seen. Though it's a cut-and-dried case, this woman before me cannot be punished." How can this possibly be?
Submitted by tartle · Added 1 January 2007
Hint: The sister is alive and so could technically speaking be punished, but although probably not by the laws of any western judicial systems.
Solution:
The sisters are conjoined twins.
Comments (2)
The 2nd lateral thinking problem doesn't make sense there is nothing in the problem that remotely suggests that the rest of the poker players are women!!!....the idea here is to come up with solutions which have a fresh intelligent approach but at the same time should be logical and seem practical. However the rest of the problems were really fresh and appealing.
For #2 under Fanciful, the judge did not specify which woman he was speaking about. He could not punish the woman before him because it was her sister who had clearly murdered the husband and, as stated in the problem, both sisters were before him. The rest of what the judge said can be explained in numerous ways.
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