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Hotel Rooms
Situation
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.Situation
Bob enters a hotel. "How many rooms are there here?", asks Bob. "Twenty", replies the receptionist, "We only have one room left - a single".
"That will do me perfectly", says Bob.
"Here you go, room number twenty-one."
Bob looked at the key and, sure enough, it said 21 in bold numbers on the keyring. Yet the receptionist said there were only twenty rooms. Bob found his room easily and realised how silly he had been.
Why was his room not number 20?
"That will do me perfectly", says Bob.
"Here you go, room number twenty-one."
Bob looked at the key and, sure enough, it said 21 in bold numbers on the keyring. Yet the receptionist said there were only twenty rooms. Bob found his room easily and realised how silly he had been.
Why was his room not number 20?
Hint
The rooms did start at one and the room just before was indeed room number twenty.Answer
The hotel owner was a superstitious one and so he didn't have a room number 13, the thirteenth room was number 14.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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