A man leaves an $100,000 dollar bill on his desk and leaves work.

A man leaves an $100,000 dollar bill on his desk and leaves work. When he returns the money is gone. He has three suspects: the cook, the cleaning lady, and the mail guy. The cook says he put the money under a book on his desk to keep it safe. They check and it is no longer there. The maid says she moved it when she was cleaning to the inside of the book between page 1 and 2. They open the book and look between page number 1 and 2 but it isn't there. The mail guy says he saw it sticking out of the book and to keep it safe he moved it to between page number 2 and 3. Once they are done the culprit is promptly arrested. Who did it and how did he know?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerThe mail guy did it because if he checked between page numbers 1 and 2 page numbers 2 and 3 are opposite sides of one page and could not hold the dollar bill.

 

A man leaves his cabin and travels 100 meter north, 100 meters west, and 100 meters south just to arrive back at his home. He sees a bird. What kind of bird is it?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerA penguin.

 

A man married three women in Michigan. He never got divorced and none of his wives died, yet he didn’t break the law. How did he do it?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerHe works as a Justice of the Peace.

 

A man says his dog can jump over his house. No one believes him but he is right. How is that possible?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerThe dog can jump over his dog house.

 

A man travels by wagon, brings joy each evening, but depression by the morning. Who is he?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerAn alcoholic or alcohol.

 

A man walks into a pub and simply orders a water. The bar tender simply looks at the man, grabs a shotgun, and points it at the man's face. The man says, "Thank you" gets up, and walks out of the pub. Why did they behave this way?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerHe had the Hic-ups.

 

A man wants to have a party in thirty-one days where he will be serving his 1000 barrels of wine. The only problem is that one of his enemies poisoned one of the barrels. The poison kills any man who drinks any of the wine in exactly 30 days. The man has 10 plants that are also killed by the poison in 30 days and can be used to test the wine. How can identify the single poisoned barrel of wine?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerTo do this the man must create 1000 unique groups from the 10 plants in which each group has between 1 and 10 plants, and give each plant wine from a different barrel. He can then throw away the barrel of wine that corresponds to the group that died from the wine.

 

A man was found dead in his study. He was slumped over his desk and a gun was in his hand. There was a cassette recorder on his desk. When the police entered the room and pressed the play button on the tape recorder they heard: "I can't go on. I have nothing to live for." Then there was the sound of a gunshot. How did the detective immediately know that the man had been murdered and it wasn't a suicide?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerSomeone had to have rewound the tape.

 

A man who lives on the tenth floor takes the elevator down to the first floor every morning and goes to work. In the evening, when he comes back; on a rainy day, or if there are other people in the elevator, he goes to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the seventh floor and walks up three flights of stairs to his apartment.
Can you explain why?
(This is one of the more popular and most celebrated of all lateral thinking logic puzzles. It is a true classic. Although there are many possible solutions that fit the conditions, only the canonical answer is truly satisfying.)
Show Answer            Hide AnswerThe man is of short stature. He can't reach the upper elevator buttons, but he can ask people to push them for him. He can also push them with his umbrella.

 

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?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerRoom number 3. If the lions have not eaten in 3 years they are dead.