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7 Lateral Thinking Questions To Promote Out-Of-The-Box Thinking
7 Lateral Thinking Questions To Promote Out-Of-The-Box Thinking
Someone falls out of a thirty story building, but lives. With luck and their landing pad not being factors, how
could they have survived the fall?
Lateral Thinking Question #2
There are a dozen eggs in a carton. Twelve people each take a single egg, but there is one egg left in the carton.
How?
Lateral Thinking Question #3
A boat has a ladder thats ten feet long, and hangs off the side of the boat, with its last two feet submerged in
water. If the ocean tide rises five feet, how much of the ladder will be underwater?
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There are ten birds perched on a fence. A farmer aims his rifle and shoots one. How many birds are left?
Lateral Thinking Question #5
Which countries have the 4th of July out of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia,
and Canada?
Lateral Thinking Question #7
If you were alone in a dark cabin, with only one match and a lamp, a fireplace, and a candle to choose from, which
would you light first?
Answer #2
The last person took the carton with the egg inside. This question challenges our ability to break outside of
patterns, and introduce concepts not provided in the context of the story. Since everyone else in the story takes a
single egg, the last person taking the whole carton is a new, but not impossible, scenario that the lateral thinker
must conceive.
Answer #3
Two feet. If the ocean rises, so will the boat, and the amount of ladder under the water will remain the same. A
critical thinker might be tempted to work out the math in this obvious trick question, but a lateral thinker will
spot the attempt at misconstruction.
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Answer #7
You would light the match first. Without it, you couldnt light any of the other appliances. This is another
question that encourages the thinker to break free of assumed patterns and think outside the box.
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