A man and his son were rockclimbing on a particularlydangerous mountain when theyslipped and fell. The man waskilled, but the son lived and wasrushed to a hospital. The oldsurgeon looked at the young man and declared, "I can't operate on this boy: he is my son."How can this be?

False Assumption: The surgeon wasa man.

Answer: The old surgeon was the boy's mother

Preston and his men searched thefrozen forest for escaped convictBen Barker. Just as they wereabout to give up, one of Preston'smen spotted a body. Barker wasfound lying dead in the snow.There were no tracks leading to or from the body. The cause of death was partially due to the unopened pack on his back. Barker did not die of thirst, hunger, or cold. What was in Barker's pack that led to his death?

False Assumption: Barker’s “pack”was a backpack, not a parachute pack.Also, he had arrived there somehow byland, not by air.

Answer: An unopened parachute.

Two train tracks run parallel toeach other, except for a shortdistance where they meet andbecome one track over a narrowbridge. One morning, a trainspeeds onto the bridge. Anothertrain coming from the oppositedirection, also speeds onto thebridge. Neither train can stop onthe short bridge, yet there is nocollision. How is this possible?

False Assumption: Sounds like the twotrains had arrived there at the same time; it was just the same morning.

Answer: The trains were crossing thebridge at different times of the morning.

Justin Summers owns a vacationhouse in northern Ontario whichhas an A-shaped roof. One side ofthe roof faces north and the otherside faces south. The prevailingwinds from the north are usuallyquite strong. The strange thing isthat the stronger the north windblows, the stronger the resultingupdraft on the south side of theroof. Therefore, if a rooster was tolay an egg on the peak of the roofduring a strong northerly wind, onwhich side should the egg fall mostof the time?

False Assumption: That the rooster, being a chicken, was a hen

Answer: Roosters don't lay eggs.

There are two mothers and two daughters in the mall. They saw a beautiful pair of shoes. They all liked it but there are only 3 pairs left. They bought all 3 pairs. When they got out of the mall, all of them has the same pair of shoes. How did that happen?

False Assumption: There are four persons who went to the mall.

Answer: There are three only 3 persons. The grandmother (Mother 1), the mother (Mother 2 and Daughter 1) and the granddaughter (Daughter 2)

It is a hot August afternoon. Thelocation is the living room in an oldVictorian mansion. The 7-footwindow is open and the curtains areblowing in the breeze generated bythe thunderstorm that just passed.On the floor lie the bodies of Billand Monica. They are surroundedby puddles of water and brokenglass. Please close your eyes andpicture the scene. Now change thepicture. Neither Bill nor Monicahas any clothing on. How did theydie?

False assumption: Bill and Monica are human.They are actually fish.

Answer: They suffocated. The storm winds blewopen the window, which knocked their fish bowl offthe table, and it crashed onto the floor.

A woman leaves home and makes three left turns. She returns home again. On the way, she passed two women with masks. Who were the two women?

False Assumption: That the woman was walking on city streets. She really is on a baseball field

Answer: The umpire and the catcher.

There is a cabin on the side of amountain. Three people are inside and they are dead. How did they die?

False Assumption: That the cabin was a mountain cabin. It was actually the cabin of a jetliner.

Answer: They were killed in a plane crash The three people were the pilot, co-pilot, and navigator. They crashed in snow storm.

There is an ancient invention still used in some parts of the world today that allows people to see through walls. What is it?

Answer: Windows.

False Assumptions:The walls are totally solid and opaque. The walls are not part of a house. Somehow, windows weren’t “invented”. Windows aren’t that ancient. “Some parts of the world” means only a few places, not commonly found.

It is a stormy, snowy day.There is a man dead inside a shack. There are no windows and the only door is locked from inside. There is no way in or out. The man has a stab wound. There is a puddle of water and blood next to him.How did he die?

Answer: He stabbed himself with an icicle!

False Assumption: That the water wasalways liquid, and certainly not in the form of an icicle, not to mention that suicide with an icicle is not very common!

The red house is made of red bricks. The black house is made of black bricks. The blue house is made of blue bricks. What is the greenhouse made of?

Answer: Glass. A greenhouse is a glass building where plants are grown.

False Assumption: Because the other houses are made of bricks that gives its color, a greenhouse is also a house made up of green bricks.