Post Inspired from another Kutchi. :-). That person should not reply. 😉
1) The Elevator
A man lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every day he takes the elevator to go down to the ground floor to go to work or to go shopping. When he returns he takes the elevator to the seventh floor and walks up the stairs to reach his apartment on the tenth floor. He hates walking so why does he do it?
2. Stuff on the lawn
Five pieces of coal, a carrot and a scarf are lying on the lawn. Nobody put them on the lawn but there is a perfectly logical reason why they should be there. What is it?
3. Friday
A man rode into town on Friday. He stayed for three nights and then left on Friday. How come?
4. The Realization
A man was walking downstairs in a building when he suddenly realized that his wife had just died. How?
5. Death in a Field
A man is lying dead in a field. Next to him there is an unopened package. There is no other creature in the field. How did he die?
1) The man is short and he cannot reach the 10 floor button in the elevator…
He can just reach 7th floor button….:-)
Prasant it was so easy to find answers to your lateral puzzles. All I had to do was a google search :-).
Here is the link to many more lateral puzzles. Also you are able to see clues that might help.
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/8295/lateral1.html
Answers:
1) The man is a dwarf, and can only reach the button for 8th floor.
2) They were used by children who made a snowman. The snow has now melted.
3) The man’s horse was called Friday.
4) The man had visited his wife in hospital. She was on a life-support machine. As he was walking down the stairs all the lights went out. There had been a power cut and the emergency back-up systems had failed. He knew that she had died.
5) The man had jumped from a plane but his parachute had failed to open. It is the unopened package.
🙂