The following is a collection of lateral thinking puzzles. Good luck!
1. Will lives on the top floor of a high-rise apartment building. His apartment is the only one on that floor. Every morning he enters the elevator, presses the button for the lobby, and proceeds throughout his day. Every evening, on his way home from work Will enters the elevator, presses the button for the tenth floor, gets out on the tenth floor and walks the remaining ten flights to his apartment. The elevator is perfectly operational and can stop at every floor in the building. Will knows nobody else in the building and he does not do this for exercise, still, there is a perfectly logical explanation. Explain?
2. The value of two United States coins equals 30 cents. One of them is not a nickel. What are the two coins.
3. A doctor and his son are in a very bad car accident. The doctor dies immediately, but the boy is rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. However, when the boy gets to operating room the old surgen says, "I cannot operate on this boy, he is my son. How can this be?
4. A man walks into a bar and orders glass of water. The bartender hears the request, reaches behind the bar and then points a gun at the man. The man says " thank you" and then leaves happily. Why?
5. Joe lives in a one-room cabin where all four walls face due South. On his way out one afternoon he is attacked by a bear. What color must is the bear?
6. A man has hanged himself from the rafters in a large barn. There is no way to climb up the walls to the rafters and it is well out of jumping distance. The only other thing in the entire barn is a small puddle of water underneath him. How was the man able to reach the rafters to hang himself?
7. A man lies dead in a field with a small, unopened package near him. He was not killed by any animal or other person, and he did not die from natural causes. The package did not explode directly injur the man, but it did contribute to the situation of his death. How did he die?
8. On the side of a snowy mountain, near a frosty stream, 40 people lie dead in a cabin. There were no murders of any type and none of the group died naturally. Every one that entered the cabin never exited, so there are no survivors. How did they die?
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