[Guest]

I hope no one has posted anything like this before... so here it goes....

A bus full of people is traveling over a bridge on its way to Las Vagas. No one gets on or off, but, when the bus arrives in Las Vagas there's not a single person on board. How can this be possible??????????

[Guest]

all the people on board are married?

[Guest]

sounds to me as if

there were tvs on the bus

[Guest]

perhaps :-

The text states "no one got off the bus" but this does not preclude groups greater than one getting off !! So it could have stated "everyone got off the bus" which would satisfy the basic statement - tenuous but English is a minefield if you let it be so

[Guest]

I think the married/single word play solution is a good one, but the title "Where did all the people go George?" indicates that the people are actually gone.

(I don't get the 'George' bit)

Teleport? An inter-dimensional rift?

Or a bomb or...some sort of liquidiser...which turns the people into an ex-human mush that you couldn't technically call people or persons.

[Guest]

Could be no one gets on and off the bridge, but they can get off the bus. So they all got off before arriving to Las Vegas

[Guest]

"there's not a single person on board" Correct. There's not a SINGLE person on board, there are LOTS of people on board (probably all married ).

Edited November 12, 2009 by Lark

[Guest]

I'm with Xamdam and Lark on this one. It is the most logical answer.

[pdqkemp]

First thing I thought of was everyone was married, too. However, since the bus was going to Vegas, perhaps the bus was a "marriage bus". Maybe everyone on board was married on-route!

[Guest]

I hope its not one of those riddles that doesn't work when you write it out like ".There is not a single person left on board" is supposed to be ".There is not a single person left on bored."

I like the answer about them getting married but a bus seems like an odd place for that to happen. Then again it is Vegas...

[Guest]

I go with the married/single solution. You would have to assume that they were married when they got on the bus. I don't know what the bridge has to do with the problem.

[Guest]

Because they were all married (or not single).

[Guest]

when i said

there are tvs on the bus i was getting at; the tvs were entertaining and no one was bored...i should have expanded on that

[Guest]

my 2 cents

The trip is a couple resort thing and they are all heading to some where that is not las Vegas.... and the bus has got an on board bathroom....so noone needs to get off to use the bathroom when they get to las Vegas...

[Guest]

A bridge on the way to Vegas (or Vagas?)? Maybe they started out in San Francisco and a communal gay union was performed en route...

[Guest]

they were abducted by aliens.

Otherwise, 'bus full' could be a measure of the number of people. The bus traveled separately.

Or how about, the people were not on board (inside) the bus but on top of it.

"Not a single person" is pretty clear, so that means no driver too, right?

My last idea is they all died and so the bodies are not considered people.

I hope the fact that Las Vegas was spelled wrong isn't part of it.

[Guest]

I'm not sure if anyone has said this. because I haven't read them, but I'm pretty sure it's

THEY'RE ALL COUPLES

And people... just for reference, you don't have to be married to not be single, you can just be a couple. Just to let you know.

Edited November 13, 2009 by Alyssa

[Guest]

"(I don't get the 'George' bit)" - Of Mice and Men maybe?

The year is 2021. Instead of people being turned into Soylent Green they're turned into bus fuel.

[Guest]

When and how do we get an answer ?