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The Elevator
Situation
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.Situation
Every day a man leaves his apartment on the 46th floor and rides the elevator down to the first floor to go to work. Every evening at about 6:00pm he gets in the elevator, takes it to the 38th floor, gets out and walks up the stairs for the remaining eight floors until he reaches the 46th floor, and his apartment. Why does he take the stairs instead of the elevator for the last eight floors?
Answer
He is small and can`t reach the numbers on the elevator past 38.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Is he a midget?
The real answer is that he is a midget.
we get SO many dupes of this teaser
Yeah, the version I heard was that he rides half way up the building except on days when he has a friend with him, or it is raining - you see, when it rains he presses the button with his umbrella and when he has his friend there, the friend presses the button for him.
I prefer the version with a little more depth to the teaser
I prefer the version with a little more depth to the teaser
At the end there was a mistake. It says "remaining 6 floors" when there were 8 to go (although he did mention the 8 floors as well). But that doesn't matter because this is a great teaser
SSSSSSSSOOOOOO Old.....
I thought it was funny
maybe he just wanted to exercise .
I said he wanted the exercise also! But, I hadn't heard it before so I thought it was funny!
ok, i'm gonna guess before i read it:
1) for excercise
or
2) because the elevator only goes up to the 38th floor for some reason
1) for excercise
or
2) because the elevator only goes up to the 38th floor for some reason
ha ha funny!
nice but i heard the one where the girl lives on teh 20th and when shes going down she goes to the 1st and when she goes up she goes to the 7th and walks the rest of the way but when its raining (umbrella) she goes to teh top and when her parents or bellman is with her she goes all the way to the top......i like mine no offense cuz it has more depth which is better in my opinion...but besides the classic and old
I have read this one in so many books....think of more original teasers...
That's TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE!
The numbers past 38 are actually LOWER that those before 38. Have you ever been in an elevator before?
Whoever invented that must've forgotten that.
No offense.
The numbers past 38 are actually LOWER that those before 38. Have you ever been in an elevator before?
Whoever invented that must've forgotten that.
No offense.
I read all of the comments above but still think it's funny.
I like the original version better.
I heard the one with the umbrella, too. This one is still good, though.=>)
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