A women lives alone on the 30th floor and hates taking the stairs. Every day she takes the elevator down to the lobby floor to go to work. When she comes homes from work, she takes the elevator to the 20th floor and walks the rest of the way up, except on days when it rains. Those days she takes the elevator all the way home. Why does she walk the last ten flights of stairs if she hates it so much?
Two fifty foot ropes are suspended from a forty foot ceiling twenty feet apart. You have only a knife. How much of the rope can you steal?
Two people are talking on the phone long distance. One is in an East Coast state of the U.S., the other is in a West Coast state of the U.S. The first asks the other, "What time is it?" He hears the answer and says, "That's funny. It's the same time here!" Neither one of them were mistaken about the time. How is this possible?
The big monkey is the father of the small monkey, but the small monkey is not the son of the big monkey. How are they related?
In a house there was a murder scene. The police ask the neighbor of the person who died,"did you know who killed this person? The neighbor said, "No. While I was outside I saw a frost in the window. I wipe it, then I saw a person lying dead. After that they arrested the neighbor. Why did they arrested the neighbor?
You are in a blackout. you need socks. You go to your dark room and you have a drawer full of black and white socks. How many do you need to take out to get a pair for sure?
What does man love more than life? Fear more than death or mortal strife? What do the poor have and the rich require, And all contented men desire? What does the miser spend and and the Spendthrift save? What do all men carry to their graves?
There is a magic garden that will grow any seed you plant in it forever. However, you can only put ten seeds in the garden. You have a choice to put in ten carrot seeds or ten mushroom seeds. How many of each seed do you plant in the garden?