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Topic: Lateral thinking problem I just thought up.

Green !!bO/s3MBcD started this discussion 5 days ago #126,351

A man visits a house. The next day he visits the house again. The house is in the same place but it os also 33 houses away. What happened?

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 5 days ago, 2 hours later[^] [v] #1,367,568

It's a mobile home.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 5 days ago, 20 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,569

33 houses away from what?

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 5 days ago, 1 hour later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,596

@previous (D)
From Anonymous B, who mysteriously disappeared.

Green !!bO/s3MBcD (OP) replied with this 5 days ago, 19 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,597

@1,367,568 (C)
Good answer but it is a house.

Green !!bO/s3MBcD (OP) double-posted this 5 days ago, 9 seconds later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,598

@1,367,569 (D)
Think laterally!

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 5 days ago, 15 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,602

The house is in the same place but it operating system 33 houses away. This obviously is a reference to deleting system 32 in windows, but the joke is that system 32 isn’t important, what about system 33? House simply represents the home directory in MS DOS.

Anonymous G double-posted this 5 days ago, 56 seconds later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,603

What happened is the man hit CTRL+ALT+DEL

https://youtu.be/kM8LC3Nj7-s

Green !!bO/s3MBcD (OP) replied with this 5 days ago, 11 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,610

@1,367,602 (G)
Now you're thinking laterally! But not the solution.
If no one gets it in a few days I will post the answer!

Anonymous G replied with this 5 days ago, 6 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,611

If you want a real answer though.

The first sentence happens a day before the second sentence.

The second sentence happens a day after the first sentence.

The third sentence is in the present, but there’s no information as to how far in the past the first two sentences were. He could have visited a house and gone back the next day ten years ago, and right now he’s 33 houses away.

(Edited 17 seconds later.)

Green !!bO/s3MBcD (OP) replied with this 4 days ago, 3 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,643

@previous (G)
Nice lateral thinking! But the solution is really simple!

Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 4 days ago, 5 hours later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,684

He visited the house, he drove away precisely 33 houses down and parked. The next day, he drove past the 33 houses again and visited the original house, which was in the same place as the day before.

boof joined in and replied with this 4 days ago, 2 hours later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,716

is it on a Monopoly board

Green !!bO/s3MBcD (OP) replied with this 4 days ago, 4 hours later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,736

@previous (boof)
Way off.
@1,367,684 (I)
On the right track.

Green !!bO/s3MBcD (OP) double-posted this 4 days ago, 25 seconds later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,737

I'll give you a hint, think less about the house and more the number 33.

Anonymous D replied with this 4 days ago, 22 minutes later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,739

@previous (Green !!bO/s3MBcD)

> I'll give you a hint, think less about the house and more the number 33.

I did and you gave me a gibberish reply!

Green !!bO/s3MBcD (OP) replied with this 3 days ago, 23 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,924

@previous (D)
Think laterally!

Green !!bO/s3MBcD (OP) double-posted this 3 days ago, 32 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,925

If no one gets the answer in a few days I'll post the solution.

Green !!bO/s3MBcD (OP) triple-posted this 2 days ago, 13 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,976

(Citing a deleted or non-existent reply.)
Yes! That's the solution! Well done on thinking laterally 😎👊🏻

boof replied with this 2 days ago, 5 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,367,999

wait what

Green !!bO/s3MBcD (OP) replied with this 2 days ago, 6 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,368,069

Ok, the solution is he visited house number 99. But someone turned the numbers upside down so that it looked like 66, which was also 33 houses away!
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