Questions

1.  How can you tell a hard boiled egg from a raw egg without cracking it open?

2.  A man lives on the tenth floor of a building.  Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building.  In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator - or if it was raining that day - he goes back 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?

3.  Two fathers and two sons went on a fishing trip.  They each caught one fish and yet when they arrived at home they counted a total of three fish.  How can this be?

4.  How many flowers do I have if all of them are roses except two, all of them are tulips except two, and all of them are daisies except two?

5.  I have two US coins totaling 55 cents.  One is not a nickel.  What are the coins?

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Solutions

1.  Spin the egg and stop it momentarily.  The raw egg's insides are still spinning and when you let go the egg will spin again.

2.  The man is of very short stature and cannot reach the number 10 button in the elevator, but has no problem in reaching the number 7 button.  On a rainy day, he uses his umbrella to reach the button.  When there is someone else with him, he asks them to press the button for him.

3.  There were three fishermen; a grandfather, father, and son.

4.  Three flowers: rose, tulip, daisy.

4.  One is a 50 cent piece and one is a nickel (the 50 cent piece is not a nickel).