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[Warachia]

What's up with these puzzles? Part me of me thinks that anyone with a half ounce of common sense would instantly realize that these vague open-ended puzzles (with allegedly only one correct solution) are just load of crap, while part of me wonders if I'm just spectacularly retarded at puzzles.

Considering that the OP gives hints on how to solve these, it's more like playing twenty questions, and isn't that bad since you can narrow down the solutions.

 

[DoPo]

What's up with these puzzles? Part me of me thinks that anyone with a half ounce of common sense would instantly realize that these vague open-ended puzzles (with allegedly only one correct solution) are just load of crap, while part of me wonders if I'm just spectacularly retarded at puzzles.

Considering that the OP gives hints on how to solve these, it's more like playing twenty questions, and isn't that bad since you can narrow down the solutions.

But that's not a lateral thinking puzzle then. This is just "Guess what I'm thinking". If it was a lateral thinking puzzle, then any sufficiently justified answer will be valid. The question itself is open ended. Why should it answering it should rely on information we do not have and some somewhat wild assumptions to be made? How does this make it in any way logic?

 

[ShindoL Shill]

I agree, but it's kind of fun to see the different interpretations.
If you want an actual lateral thinking exercise:

What is the next letter in this sequence:
W-I-T-N-L-I-T-

Kind of boring. Only one answer.

Part of me wants to stand up and shout "It's S, I figured it out! Woohoo!", but another part just thinks it's a trap and that it can't be the simple. Either way, that is a prime example of lateral thinking.

Yes. It's S.
One of my old teachers had dozens of these. That was one.

 

[RicoGrey]

I agree, but it's kind of fun to see the different interpretations.
If you want an actual lateral thinking exercise:

What is the next letter in this sequence:
W-I-T-N-L-I-T-

Kind of boring. Only one answer.

Part of me wants to stand up and shout "It's S, I figured it out! Woohoo!", but another part just thinks it's a trap and that it can't be the simple. Either way, that is a prime example of lateral thinking.

Yes. It's S.
One of my old teachers had dozens of these. That was one.

WOW, I was way overthinking that.