(4) Puzzles I
A.) [Action: Sasaki is taking a walk around town, looking pleasant and sociable, wearing her purple dress from home. At the moment, she seems to be deep in conversation with a drone, actually, a pleasant-looking young man with a baseball cap on. She's asking him an array of question, including "What time is it going to be three hours from now?", "How many months in the year have twenty-eight days?", "Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?", "Could you explain the meaning of Euler's formula in four dimensions?", and "Say I drop a cube of sugar into coffee and then take it out a minute later. How is this possible?" You can disturb her, if you like.]
B.) [Phone, filtered from drones:] Hello, fellow residents of Mayfield! Have any of you ever heard of lateral thinking puzzles? Essentially, they're like 'riddles' of a sort: I give you a situation, you ask me binary questions about them--yes or no questions--and you try to figure out what the explanation of the situation is.
People have found that they're an effective way to train your mind to think in different ways. As all of us come from different worlds, this is a useful skill for helping to understand each other more--as well as, perhaps, useful in facilitating an escape. I would be interested both in hearing your own native puzzles or riddles, or else in telling some of the puzzles that I know.
Here's one, for instance. There's a man who was sleeping in a hotel when he was awakened by the ringing of a phone. The caller said nothing and hung up, but afterwards felt much better. Any guesses?