All five of today’s Brain Teasers are ‘think outside the box’ problems.  You can’t really ‘figure’ any of them out in a traditional sense (except maybe #5).  Their nature is such that you may instantly see the answer to one or more of them, or you may have to struggle with one or more of them.  If you don’t see an answer right away, come back to it later!

1.  A murderer is condemned to death.  He has to choose between three rooms.  The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years.  Which room is safest for him?
2.  Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, or any of the months of the year?
3.  A man and his son are in a car wreck, and are taken to different hospitals.   At the emergency room of the hospital where the boy was taken, the attending physician gasps and says ” I can’t work on this patient – he’s my son!”  How can this be?
4.  This is an unusual paragraph.  I’m curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it.  It looks so plain you would think nothing is wrong with it.  In fact, nothing is wrong with it!  But it is unusual, though.  Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd.  But if you work at it a bit, you might find out.  Try to do so without any coaching!
5.  Ralph is trying to limit his coffee input, so he alternates days of drinking coffee and hot tea. He drinks coffee on odd-numbered mornings, and hot tea on even-numbered mornings.   Further, he always allows himself coffee on Mondays, regardless of date.
He’s discovered that under these conditions, there are occasionally circumstances in which he could drink coffee for four straight days.  Can you deduce those circumstances?

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