Lateral thinking

[unreal808]

A man is found dead in a field. He is clutching a broken match. What happened?

He and a number of other passengers were making a balloon trip in a desperate attempt to flee a country. The balloon had to lose weight to stop it from crashing. He drew the short match and had to jump.

[unreal808]

Push the cork in the bottle and shake the coin out.

I came to the same conclusion.

[unreal808]

I have one..

Imagine the pattern of dots below drawn on a sheet of paper.

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Your task is to join all nine dots using only four (or less) straight lines, without lifting your pencil from the paper and without retracing the lines.