Situation puzzles | Lateral thinking puzzles

A man comes up to the border of a neighboring country on his motorcycle. The customs officer at the border crossing stops him and searches the man. He finds nothing so he lets him cross. The next day the same thing happens. This goes on every day for several months. Then one day, the man doesnʼt show up. The border official meets up with him in a restaurant in the city. The officer says, “I know youʼre smuggling something and itʼs driving me crazy. Itʼs all I think about. I canʼt even sleep. Just between you and me, what are you smuggling?” What is the man smuggling?

A woman - at work - is going downstairs, when suddenly there is a blackout. In that very moment she realizes that her husband is about to die.

A couple find a man's corpse on the beach. The corpse is under an umbrella and has a knife on his back. There are no signs of violence and no traces of blood. The autopsy reveals that the man died of natural causes.

John was walking along the snow-covered field. When he came to a lonely tree, he saw the corpse of a man hanging on the tree. He died the last night from strangulation, but there were no traces around him, except John's ones.

Michael applaused, and everyone in the room (except him) died. What happened?

Visitors to a scenic mountain village were often amused by the village idiot. When offered a choice between a shiny 50-cent piece and a crumpled $5 bill, he would always happily choose the half-dollar. The bill was worth ten times as much, so why did he never choose it?

Roger sees the light and he becomes paralyzed. Soon after that he dies.

A woman is looking through the window and sees a man with a knife. However, she does not have enough time to call the police before being murdered.

A man kills his brother in front of a crowd of people. However, no one reports him.

After careful planning, five men break into a house and take thousands of dollars in cash from it. The owner of the house is the only person arrested.

One day, I felt fed up with my younger sister’s bleat. So, I killed her and threw her body into a well. The next day, the body disappeared. A few years later, I quarreled with a friend over a trifle and decided to kill him too and to throw his body into the well. The next day, the body disappeared. Later, I was drunk and accidentally impregnated a girl. I killed her and threw her into the same well. The next day, her body disappeared, as all the others did. 10 years later, my boss drove me nuts. I killed him and disposed of the body in the same well. A day later, his body disappeared. Shortly thereafter, I needed to send my mom to a nursing home, but I didn’t have enough money for that, so I killed her and threw her into the well. The next day, the body was still there. Why?

A little girl was crying bitterly in a barn. Through her tears, she noticed an old lamp lying in the garbage. She took it and dusted it off. Suddenly a genie appeared and said: "I’ll fulfill one of your wishes. But only one, so think it over." "Please make my parents disappear!" the girl said through tears, "I hate them!" "Consider it done," replied the genie. "Go to bed, and in the morning your wish will be fulfilled." The next morning, the girl woke up and went down to the kitchen. She found her mom and dad sitting at the kitchen table having breakfast. The girl immediately regretted her wish. She rushed into the barn and began to rub the lamp. The genie appeared and said, "Well, are you happy now?" "Please cancel my yesterday’s wish," the girl pleaded. "I'm sorry," the genie replied. "But once a wish is made, I can’t cancel it." And the girl burst into bitter tears. Why?