{"id":5550,"date":"1999-07-19T02:07:59","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-69-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:43","slug":"1-69-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-69-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1.69.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.69<\/strong>.  Mr. H meets Mr. X in a hotel bar; after a heated<br \/>\ndiscussion, they leave the bar and head upstairs.  Partway up the stairs,<br \/>\nMr. X clutches his chest, then punches Mr. H in the face.<\/p>\n<p>1.69 answer:  Mr. H and his new wife are in the hotel for their<br \/>\nhoneymoon.  Mrs. H is upstairs in their suite; Mr. H has stopped for a<br \/>\ndrink.  In the bar he strikes up a conversation with a complete stranger,<br \/>\nMr. X, who turns out to be a hypnotist.  Mr. H claims he can&#8217;t be<br \/>\nhypnotized; a heated discussion ensues, after which Mr. X hypnotizes Mr. H,<br \/>\ntelling Mr. H to kill his wife.  (Mr. X intends to stop Mr. H before he<br \/>\nactually commits the crime.)  They head for the honeymoon suite, but partway<br \/>\nup the stairs Mr. X has a heart attack; he punches Mr. H in an attempt to<br \/>\nend the trance before Mr. X dies. (JKM original?)<\/p>\n<p>1.69a.  Two friends have just had lunch in a restaurant.  At the end of<br \/>\nthe meal, one draws a pistol and shoots the other.  (DW)<\/p>\n<p>1.69a answer:  The solution is essentially the same, except (a) the topic<br \/>\nof the lunch discussion was specifically whether someone can be hyponotised<br \/>\nto do something they normally would not do, (b) there&#8217;s no mention in the<br \/>\nteaser of the heart attack, and (c) the men are long-time friends.  Also,<br \/>\nthe hypnotist is a doctor, so he&#8217;s sure the heart attack will be fatal.  The<br \/>\nshooting is non-fatal and is intended to &#8220;wake up&#8221; the hypnotized friend to<br \/>\nkeep him from killing his wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.69. Mr. H meets Mr. X in a hotel bar; after a heated discussion, they leave the bar and head upstairs. Partway up the stairs, Mr. X clutches his chest, then punches Mr. H in the face. 1.69 answer: Mr. H and his new wife are in the hotel for their honeymoon. Mrs. H is [&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-5550","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5550","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=5550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15810,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5550\/revisions\/15810"}],"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=5550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}