Solve the three lateral thinking puzzles given below:

(a) The police raid a house to arrest a suspected murderer acting on an anonymous phone call.

They don’t know what he looks like, but they know his name is John. They find a carpenter,

a taxi driver, a car mechanic and fireman playing cards inside. They immediately arrest the fireman without even asking his name. How do they know they’ve got their man?

(b) A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three options in 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?

(c) Look at the picture below with the nine dots. Can you connect the nine dots using 4 straight lines without lifting your pencil from the paper and without retracing any lines?

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