Solving Mind-Bending Riddles and Logical Puzzles: Can You Answer These Questions?

1. There is a man who lives on the top floor of a very tall building. Every day he takes the elevator down to the ground floor to leave the building for work. However, upon returning from work, he can only travel halfway up in the lift and has to walk the rest of the way unless it's raining! Why?

2. A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives, the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy, he is my son!" How can this be?

3. A man is dressed all in black - black shoes, socks, trousers, coat, gloves, and ski mask. He is walking down a back street with all the street lamps off. A black car is approaching him with its lights off, but somehow manages to stop in time. How did the driver see the man?

4. One day, Kerry celebrated her birthday. Two days later, her older twin brother, Terry, celebrated his birthday. How did this happen?

If not, please let me know...

Answer 3 = because it's daytime, and you can even see a person wearing a black dress.

Tell me the answers to the remaining three.

1. The man is very proud of himself, and he doesn't want to see anything above his head. When coming down the lift, he presses the bottom button and reaches the ground. However, while going up, he doesn't want to raise his head to operate it, so he only presses up to the middle of the floor.

2. The doctor is the boy's mother.

3. He drives during the daytime.

Good try Sanjana & Madhu...

Madhu, your answer for 2 & 3 is perfectly correct. Answers for 1 & 4 are here....

1. The man is very, very short and can only reach halfway up the elevator buttons. However, if it is raining, then he will have his umbrella with him and can press the higher buttons with it.

4. At the time she went into labor, the mother of the twins was traveling by a ship. The older twin, Terry, was born first early on March 1st. The boat then crossed a time zone, and Kerry, the younger twin, was born on February 28th. Therefore, the younger twin celebrates her birthday two days before her older brother.

Now you can try answering these....

6. A man went to a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone else at the party who drank the punch subsequently died of poisoning. Why did the man not die?

7. A man died and went to Heaven. There were thousands of other people there. They were all naked and all looked as they did at the age of 21. He looked around to see if there was anyone he recognized. He saw a couple, and he knew immediately that they were Adam and Eve. How did he know?

8. A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?

Answer for the 8th question: Two sons were born at the same hour, on the same day, of the same year, but not in the same month. Therefore, they were not twins. Right?

Answers for 6, 7 & 8 are:

6. The poison in the punch came from the ice cubes. When the man drank the punch, the ice was fully frozen. Gradually, it melted, poisoning the punch.

7. He recognized Adam and Eve as the only people without navels. Because they were not born of women, they had never had umbilical cords and therefore they never had navels.

8. They were two of a set of triplets (or quadruplets, etc.).

Om

Now try these if you can...

9. A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of water. The barman pulls out a gun and points it at the man. The man says 'Thank you' and walks out.

10. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

Om..

Answer: He will choose room number 3 because the lions who have not eaten for 3 years are already dead.

Let me know about the rest.

Regards,
Sonal

Answer to question 2 is lion. The safest place for him is none other than the 3rd room because all the lions haven't eaten for a long time, indicating that they have all died.

Please post the answer to the 1st question.