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[savagegamer90]

There is a room with no window's, doors, or any sort of opening, the walls are solid steel 10 feet thick, and you are trapped inside, left only with a saw and a table.
How do you escape?

[comperr]

This fantasy logic problem where words have alternate meanings (usually related t homonyms)
You saw the table in half; but the two halves together; two halves make a whole (hole) and you crawl out through the hole.
Here is another one for you:
You only have a bat and a ball...what do you do?

[savagegamer90]

three strikes and your out

[comperr]

thats one answer...there one more

[savagegamer90]

umm four balls and you walk
maybee hit a home run

[comperr]

You got all three.
Now you have a piano only - what do u do?

[savagegamer90]

It would take me a while, but I'd find the right key

[comperr]

yay! once you get u find urself outside of the room; but you have no animal to get home....what do u do?

[Riddari]

Going back to the original puzzle, I would think it might be possible to climb on the table and cut a hole in the ceiling. The puzzle only states that the walls are solid steel 10 feet thick, not the ceiling or floor. If cutting a hole in the ceiling does not work, you could try the floor, but it is very likely that you are at ground level and may have to dig a bit.

I like comperr's solution and subsequent puzzles. I just took my approach due to another puzzle I have encountered. "How many sides does a sheet of paper have?"

Spoiler for Solution

There are really two valid answers, but each makes a statement about your perception.
If you say 2 sides, you have a fairly 2 dimensional view of the world.
If you say six sides, then you have a more three dimensional view of the world.

Of course, after hearing the puzzle, most people will answer 6 sides to any future inquisition.
I have to admit that my initial answer was just two sides.

Anyway, the relevance here is whether you consider the floor and ceiling as options or just the walls.

[savagegamer90]

comperr: I am truly stuck on that one I can't think because there are so many possibitilties
but I suppose you could always click your heels three times and say, "There's no place like home", "There's no place like home", "There's no place like home".

Riddari: The cieling is too high for you to reach with the table, and try cutting through a steel floor with the ground underneeth it.