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Sorry, wasn't thinking. He doesn't know the person on the other end, he's mute, sitting on a bed. Does the bed have anything to do with it?

Not directly, other than he sleeps on/in it.
Clue: He wakes the other person up.

He's a detective, on stakeout. he just needed to wake his partner in another room, so the shift-change could take place.

Nowhere near. It is not a modern hotel i.e. the construction is not all that it might be.

Ok. Now you've got me stumped.

He is in a hotel, and is unable to sleep because the man in the adjacent room is snoring. He calls the room next door, where the snorer wakes up and answers the phone. The first man hangs up without saying anything and goes to sleep before the snorer can get back to sleep and start snoring again...

Oh, wait...

...nope, still stumped.

Unless... to switch off the lights, he has to phone a certain number. It's not a prison, is it?

I thought I had given the answer.
Your post isn't it?

I must'v missed it while writing that last post.

That IS a good one, tho.

Hmm, lemme think...

if someone else wants to have a go, be my guest.

A man is hanging in his room from a rope, the door is locked from the inside, and there is no window. The floor is wet, and there is no furniture near him. How did he get up to hang himself?

Can't you post one that I don't know the answer to? Why do your posts always make me have to ask questions?

The man who made the phone call wanted to know the time. The man answering the phone asked who was phoning him at 3.30 in the morning.

Re the man hanging . He climbed up to the rope on blocks of ice, which had since melted.

I'm obviously not too good at this, so I'll just let someone elase post if I get anything right. czardine's post

A man has to weigh potatoes on the old type of scales where you have to put the potatoes on one side and the weights on the other side.
He knows that none of his customers ever ask for more than 40 kilos. In order to weigh any amount up to 40 kilos, what is the minimum number of weights required and what are they?

What are the options?

Six:- 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 & 20 ??????

5, actually. 1 & 2 makes 3, therefore 3 isn't needed.

No correct answers yet.

Or did you mean for the answer to be thus:

6: a 1, two 2's, a 5, a 10 and a 20

A clue. He can put some potatoes and a weight, or weights, on one side and some weights on the other side.