{"id":5542,"date":"1999-07-19T02:07:51","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-61-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:42","slug":"1-61-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-61-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1.61.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.61<\/strong>.  A man is riding a subway.  He meets a one-armed<br \/>\nman, who pulls out a gun and shoots him.  (SJ; from <cite>How<br \/>\nCome?<\/cite>)<\/p>\n<p>1.61 answer:  Several men were shipwrecked together.  They agreed to<br \/>\nsurvive by eating each other a piece at a time.  Each of them in turn gave<br \/>\nup an arm, but before they got to the last man, they were rescued.  They all<br \/>\ndemanded that the last man live up to his end of the deal.  Instead, he<br \/>\nkilled a bum and sent the bum&#8217;s arm to the others in a box to &#8220;prove&#8221; that<br \/>\nhe had fulfilled the bargain.  Later, one of them sees him on the subway,<br \/>\nholding onto an overhead ring with the arm he supposedly cut off; the other<br \/>\nrealizes that the last man cheated, and kills him.<\/p>\n<p>1.61a.  Variant wording: A man sends a package to someone in Europe and<br \/>\ngets a note back saying &#8220;Thank you.  I received it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>1.61a answer:  This is just a simpler version; the shipwreck situation is<br \/>\nthe same, and the man actually did send his own arm.<\/p>\n<p>1.61b.  Variant wording: Two men throw a box off of a cliff.<\/p>\n<p>1.61b answer:  Exactly the same situation as in #1.61a (one slight<br \/>\nvariation has a hand in the box instead of a whole arm), with the two men<br \/>\nbeing two of the fellow passengers who had already lost their arms.<\/p>\n<p>1.61c.  Variant wording: A man in a Sherlock Holmes-style cape walks into<br \/>\na room, places a box on the table and leaves.<\/p>\n<p>1.61c answer:  In this one he&#8217;s wearing the cape either to disguise the<br \/>\nfact that he hasn&#8217;t really cut off his arm\/hand as required, or else simply<br \/>\nin order to hide his now-missing limb.  (from Joe Kincaid)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.61. A man is riding a subway. He meets a one-armed man, who pulls out a gun and shoots him. (SJ; from How Come?) 1.61 answer: Several men were shipwrecked together. They agreed to survive by eating each other a piece at a time. Each of them in turn gave up an arm, but before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5484,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5542","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15802,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5542\/revisions\/15802"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}