[susan53]

More ...
1. Was the man a guest at the hotel?
2. Did he know the hotel owner in some other way?
3. Was there a bet involved? a debt? a purchase? compensation? (I know - 4 questions in one ..)
4. Was the man angry about this ? happy? surprised? (yeah - ditto)
5. Would the hotel owner have preferred not to have had to ask for the money?

[emile]

I haven't looked at this post for a few days, and I remembered I promised to post the answer to my original question:

A cowboy rode into town on Wednesday, stayed two nights, and left on Tuesday. How was it possible?

...Wednesday was the name of his horse!



Looking forward to finding out the answer to Sue's question about the bartender and the gun

[clivehawkins]

Quote susan53

More ...
1. Was the man a guest at the hotel?
2. Did he know the hotel owner in some other way?
3. Was there a bet involved? a debt? a purchase? compensation? (I know - 4 questions in one ..)
4. Was the man angry about this ? happy? surprised? (yeah - ditto)
5. Would the hotel owner have preferred not to have had to ask for the money?

1. no
2. yes
3. yes
4. angry probably, surprised probably not
5. NO!

[susan53]

OK - got it. Good one It happens to me every time too - only I usually push a mushroom. I'll post the answers to mine tomorrow, so if anyone wants to ask some more questions - last chance.

[susan53]

The answers :
1) The man jumped out of a plane but his parachute didn't open.
2) The man had hiccups.

I noticed as I was doing it that Clive's question needed more complex structures for some of the questions than my two. Before using these puzzles, you need to think them through and predict the questions the students might want to ask so that you can decide which level they're suitable for.

I wrote about how I use them in the classroom here, and if you want to see some more puzzles, try here.