[Work] Those Far Pavilions

[jhaelan]

Last but two weekends back I was parachuted (non-literally) into Bangalore, for a batch recruiting event; the following week I was mainly recovering

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[alasdair]

How is the fox and three chickens meant to evaluate their out of the box thinking? It's a well known puzzle, and I'd be astonished if someone came up with a smart alec response that was really original

[sushidog]

Wouldn't it be better to kill the fox, and then you can do what you like with the chickens?

Somewhere or other apparently used to ask "Why are manhole covers round?". (The correct answer being any of "because manholes are round", "So they can't fall down manholes" or, actually "They're not; they're square or rectangular or triangular or polygonal just as often as they're round if not more so". (I know this last one; I checked.))

[alasdair]

Killing the fox is my usual answer to that question, because I hate animals, but I was trying to think outside the box.

I'm not sure when I last saw a round manhole, now you mention it.

[jhaelan]

Hehehe, evil :)

[jhaelan]

It's a well-known Western puzzle; it's not very well-known in Asia at all. We had surprisingly few answers that were not some combination of ferry the farmer and the fox together repeated times!