The Three Switches

Time for the new puzzler.

This one is complicated, so make sure you concentrate!

There are three on/off switches on the wall on the first floor of a building.

You can tell when they're switched on or off because they are either clicked up, for on, or down for off, like a light switch.

One of these three switches controls a lamp on the third floor of the building.

The other two are not connected to anything and don't do anything at all.

You are allowed to toggle the switches on or off as many times as you please.

And then you are allowed to walk just once to the third floor to check the lamp to see if it is on.

How can you know then, which switch controls the lamp on the third floor?

Good luck.

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Dead Men In The Cabin

Puzzler time.

This one is very, very short.

Not automotive at all.

Here we go.

Two men are found dead in a cabin in the woods.

There is no evidence of them being shot, stabbed, poisoned, burnt, strangled, drowned, starved or bored to death from listening to Car Talk.

The cabin did not burn down, a tree did not fall on it.

They were not attacked by animals, and they did not die of old age or natural causes.

Both men had been healthy in their late early 30s, and both were married.

Their wives were hundreds of miles away at the time.

The question, very simply is, how did the two men die?