1) it has a "lateral thinking" tag; now, those are often total red herrings here, because apparently almost no one knows what a "lateral thinking" puzzle is
Inspired by this question: Which country is INDIA in?
Japan is in India.
New Caledonia is in Lima.
Greenland is in Quebec, but only during the winter.
Portugal is in November in the winter too.
Beijing is in the Hotel.
How is this possible?
the main reason this site seems to hate them so much is that, really, you're supposed to sort of have a back-and-forth with the person asking the question
because there is no way for a person to think of every possible response before building a puzzle; that's why people are supposed to ask questions. "was he wearing gloves?" or whatever
@manshu Well, it was complicated, because it involved guessing the order of the deck after stacking and X number of shuffles and Y number of cuts and a regular texas hold-em deal
And manshu, I have to write down all the notes of creation of my puzzles, and how to solve them, and test it, on occasion, or I'll forget how to solve mine.
there was a Certain Person here who would do that all the time. He's been back recently but not long. Mostly he did it because it was his way of saying "Your puzzle is stupid and only a stupid idiot would post it. So here's the answer, to ruin it for everyone else."
There's been some recent questions on the site that are problems from math textbooks, or problems in that style.
Doubt : Pokemon Hunter and the Rogue Brook
Groups of Farmers
Cows eat to much
Who is corrupt in the Senate?
Can the car or the bike travel further?
how many times 12 men may shake han...
Ants have eaten some of Professor Halfbrain's food and gone completely crazy.
They built an underground colony in the form of a perfect tetrahedron. All of its space is divided into anthills, each of which is also a tetrahedron (which may be of varying sizes).
Each pair of neighboring a...
partially because there's a specific thing that has been considered a "logic puzzle" for over a century, but when they get posted here, there's always some insufferable turd who's like "hmmmm, the man with the grey car could have had a haircut earlier in the day, hnrrrr"
"so, seems like this isn't 'logical' at all pushes glasses so far up his nose that his finger breaks"