[For Seniors] Lateral Thinking Game! Brain Training

The man tried to take his car out of the coin-operated parking lot, but he only had a 10,000-yen bill and couldn’t pay.

In this problem, we consider the reason why someone couldn’t move because what they had was “too big.” In fact, the man was trying to take his car out of a coin-operated parking lot, but the only money he had for payment was a 10,000-yen bill, and he didn’t have enough coins to pay the parking fee. As a result, he couldn’t make the payment and ended up unable to move.

The true identity of “that” is “the sky.”

In this problem, you need to think about what “that” refers to. In fact, the true identity of “that” is the sky. The color of the sky varies depending on the time of day and the weather. At night it’s black; when it’s cloudy, white; during sunset or sunrise, red or orange; at dusk, purple; on cloudy or rainy days, gray; and on clear days, blue or light blue. In other words, what everyone was talking about was the color of the sky they looked up at.

Because the man is a native speaker of English.

In fact, this man was already a native English speaker, so even when he studied abroad, he was already fluent. In other words, native speakers already command English as their mother tongue, so studying abroad won’t make them improve any further.

Because when you write the alphabet in English, the last letter is “T.”

Actually, the “alphabet” mentioned in the problem is written as “alphabet” in English. The last letter of the English word “alphabet” is “t,” so the statement “the last letter of the alphabet isn’t Z” is referring to the English spelling.

Because the man was a baby

In this problem, we need to consider why everyone doted on the “man” even though he was crying. In fact, this “man” wasn’t an adult at all, but a baby. Babies often cry loudly, yet they are objects of affection. The one crying in the hospital was a baby, and because everyone was soothed by its cuteness, they doted on it even while it was crying.

Nishio, who had hailed a taxi, took home a flyer that was inside the cab.

In this case, Nishio-kun just hailed a taxi, rode in it, and took home a flyer that was inside. So there was no need to report it to the police, and he wasn’t reprimanded for it.

Because there was a message written on the cast that was broken.

In this problem, we need to consider the reason why he was happy even though something was scribbled on him. In fact, Taro had a broken bone, and the scribbling was on his cast. Since the messages written on casts are often notes and words of encouragement from friends and people around him, Taro was happy about those messages.