This is going to annoy me

[Parrothead]

Please help.

Here is a comic with three lateral thinking puzzles and no answers.

Does anyone know them?


Edit: found more: Have fun found another

[TheSHAD0W]

I found the first two puzzling, but the last one is pretty obvious... Where *in* the world? :-)

[Broomjockey]

The first one, I want to say that the girl was still attached to the ear. (It doesn't say "severed" ear.)

Surprisingly, I don't know the 3rd. If you're at the centre of the earth, you can still go East or West.

ETA: The second one, maybe walked, looking out to the ocean? (Otherwise, you couldn't see the horizon).

[It's me]

The first one, I want to say that the girl was still attached to the ear. (It doesn't say "severed" ear.)

Surprisingly, I don't know the 3rd. If you're at the centre of the earth, you can still go East or West.

ETA: The second one, maybe walked, looking out to the ocean? (Otherwise, you couldn't see the horizon).

3rd one: Stand on the North pole. Which way is West?
2nd one: Maybe it was the year 1200 or so?
1st one: I think you are right.....

[csquared]

As #1 & #3 have been answered, I'll take #2.

Two choices:
1. First person to return to Manhattan after it has been flattened by a disaster. That is the only way to see the horizon in all directions.

2. He was one of the original settlers.

Edit: #3 is center of the earth. North and South are absolute. East and West are relative. You can only go "up", but there are two points where you go North or South.

[gremcint]

answers to these riddles and more on the website: http://www.galactanet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56

[Lachrymose]

I kept thinking "doctor" was the important word and it finally hit me.

He walked across the island without seeing another person (patient).

Edit: Just saw the answers. I still like mine.

[Parrothead]

Thank you, grimcent!

[Broomjockey]

3rd one: Stand on the North pole. Which way is West? .

You obviously didn't read it. It said "from where can you go North AND South. Stand on the North Pole. Now go North.

No wonder I didn't get #2. I'm not familiar with the names of many American Native tribes. That's not lateral thinking, that's requiring specific knowledge.

[csquared]

No wonder I didn't get #2. I'm not familiar with the names of many American Native tribes. That's not lateral thinking, that's requiring specific knowledge.

Don't kick yourself too hard. I debated posting my answer of an original settler. Manhattan Island was heavily wooded. You could not see across the island never the less "to the horizon in all directions." Unless you climbed a tree.

The reason I went with a settler over American Indian is that the American Indians did not have "doctors." They were Medicine Men. Technically, a Witch Doctor is an African Shaman. Wrong tribes.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Trying the second collection...

#1) Well, duh, sleeping anywhere cures insomnia.

#2) He drove a golf ball into the oncoming car. He wasn't in his own car at the time.

#3) Uh, she's German?

Third collection:

#1) He left his wallet in the car.

#2) ... I got nothin'.

#3) Baseball? Tagged out trying to go home? I'm guessing...

[lordlundar]

#2) ... I got nothin'.

Vinnie is an Exterminator and the "family" was a pest infestation.

[Broomjockey]

American Indians did not have "doctors." They were Medicine Men. Technically, a Witch Doctor is an African Shaman. Wrong tribes.

Hey, good point! I knew there was something else nagging me about that one. Grr. I can still kick myself over the "inside the Earth" one though. If I really wanted to pick that one apart though, one could point out North and South are relative as well, with there being "True North" and "Magnetic North," and "Magnetic North" moves. Not a lot, in fact, not really enough to make a difference. But still.