Lateral Thinking Questions

[palfreyman18]

1.) A horse jumps over a castle and lands on a disappearing man. What am I on about??

2.)A man drives up to a hotel and the moment he arrives he realises he's bankrupt. Why?

3.)a person was really depressed with his boring job on the 20th floor of a 30 floor building so he jumps out of a window. Miraculously he survives. How?

[YT]

2) Refers to a game of Monopoly.Not sure about the others but 1)could be about chess.

[Marsh]

3) He jumps out of a ground floor window,perhaps.  And heads for the swimming pool??

[Marsh]

1)  NxP

[markwh]

3.) Window cleaner on outside - jumps into the building?

[palfreyman18]

YT: Your answer to question 2 is correct!

markwh: your answer to qustion 3 is correct!

I already knew the answers i was just seeing if anyone else can do lateral thinking questions!

Thaks!

[Marsh]

Are YT and I completely wrong about 1)?  A knight (chess-piece shaped like a horse's head) jumps over a rook (or castle) and lands on a square already occupied by an opposing chessman (most likely a pawn).  The pawn is thus taken and disappears from the board.   In chess notation, NxP, though the castle has to be imagined.

Could you also explain 2) to me, please? The window cleaner "was really depressed with his boring job�. so he jumps out of a window" according to the question.   marhwh has him jumping in and I can't see any connection with depression.

[jno]

Perhaps if question 3 was expressed "...so he jumps through a window"...?

[keng]

Perhaps the bottom 20 floors were below ground level.

[palfreyman18]

Marsh - You are correct about question 1.Answering your query on question 2, that is only the way i heard the question before i posted it. i dont know why its connected with depression but thats just how i was asked the question when i learned it.

[Marsh]

Back from hols: - Thanks for replying, palfreyman