1.
You are driving down the road in your car on
a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus
stop and you see three people waiting for the
bus:
an old lady who looks as if she is about to die,
an old friend who once saved your life,
the perfect partner you have been dreaming
about.
Knowing that there can only be one passenger in
your car, whom would you choose?
3.
A man lives in the attic of an apartment building.
Every morning he takes the elevator down to the
lobby and leaves the building. Upon his return,
however, he can only travel halfway up in the lift
and has to walk the rest of the way unless its
raining. He hates walking so why does he do it?
What is the explanation for this?
5.
Bad Boy Bubby was warned by his mother never
to open the cellar door or he would see things
that he was not meant to see. One day while his
mother was out he did open the cellar door. What
did he see?
7.
There are six eggs in the basket. Six people each
take one of the eggs. How can it be that one egg
is left in the basket?
9.
John was working as every day but that day when
he made one step back, he died. Why?
2.
Acting on an anonymous phone call, the police
raid a house to arrest a suspected murderer. They
dont know what he looks like but they know his
name is John and that he is inside the house. The
police burst in on a carpenter, a lorry driver, a
mechanic and a fireman all playing poker.
Without hesitation or communication of any kind,
they immediately arrest the fireman. How do they
know theyve got their man?
4.
How could a baby fall out of a twenty-story
building onto the ground and live?
6.
A man and his son are in a car crash. The father
is killed and the child is taken to hospital gravely
injured. When he gets there, the surgeon says, I
cant operate on this boy - because he is my
son!!! How can this possibly be?
8.
A man was lying in a pool of blood in a telephone
box. The windows of the telephone box were
broken. What happened?
10.
One day we were travelling in desert and we
found an old house. It was empty, but in the
locked back room there was a hangman. His feet
were 1.5 meter above the floor. There was
nothing else in the room. How did he manage to
kill himself?

11.
A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for
a glass of water. The barman pulls out a gun and
points it at the man. The man says Thank you
and walks out. Why?
13.
A man is lying dead in a field. Next to him there is
an unopened package. There is no other creature
in the field. How did he die?
15.
Five pieces of coal, a carrot and a scarf are lying
on the lawn. Nobody put them on the lawn but
there is a perfectly logical reason why they
should be there. What is it?
17.
A man pushed his car. He stopped when he
reached a hotel at which point he knew he was
bankrupt. Why?
19.
A man died and went to Heaven. There were
thousands of other people there. They were all
naked and all looked as they did at the age of 21.
He looked around to see if there was anyone he
recognised. He saw a couple and he knew
immediately that they were Adam and Eve. How
did he know?
12.
Not far from Madrid, there is a large wooden
barn. The barn is completely empty except for a
dead man hanging from the middle of the central
rafter. The rope around his neck is ten feet long
and his feet are three feet off the ground. The
nearest wall is 20 feet away from the man. It is
not possible to climb up the walls or along the
rafters. The man hanged himself. How did he do
it?
14.
Anthony and Cleopatra are lying dead on the
floor of a villa in Egypt. Nearby is a broken bowl.
There is no mark on either of their bodies and
they were not poisoned. How did they die?
16.
A woman had two sons who were born on the
same hour of the same day of the same year. But
they were not twins. How could this be so?
18.
One day a man received a parcel in the post.
Carefully packed inside was a human arm. He
examined it, repacked it and then sent it on to
another man. The second man also carefully
examined the arm before taking it to the woods
and burying it. Why did they do this?
20.
A man rode into town on Friday. He stayed for
three nights and then left on Friday. How come?

21.
Why is it better to have round manhole covers
than square ones?
23.
Two men went into a restaurant. They both
ordered the same dish from the menu. After they
tasted it, one of the men went outside the
restaurant and shot himself. Why?
25.
The music stopped. She died. Explain.
27.
A man is found dead in a field. He is clutching a
broken match. What happened?
29.
One day Kerry celebrated her birthday. Two days
later her older twin brother, Terry, celebrated his
birthday. How come?
22.
A man went to a party and drank some of the
punch. He then left early. Everyone else at the
party who drank the punch subsequently died of
poisoning. Why did the man not die?
24.
A man was walking downstairs in a building when
he suddenly realized that his wife had just died.
How?
26.
A blind beggar had a brother who died. What
relation was the blind beggar to the brother who
died?
28.
Deep in the forest was found the body of a man
who was wearing only swimming trunks, snorkel
and facemask. The nearest lake was 8 miles away
and the sea was 100 miles away. How had he
died?
30.
A man called to a waiter in a restaurant,
"There's a fly in my tea!"
The waiter replied, "I will bring you a fresh
cup." After a few moments, the man called out,
This is the same cup of tea! How did he
know?

31.
A man managed to visit over thirty foreign
countries without his passport. He was
welcomed in each country and left each one of
his own accord. He did this in one day.
33.
You are on an island (in the center) that is one
mile long and 100 yards wide. The vegetation is
very dry from a long drought. Suddenly it
catches fire at one end of the island, and a
strong wind is blowing it towards you, burning
the whole width of the island. There's no beach,
only sheer cliffs, and the sea is infested with
sharks. What can you do?
35.
A man is alone on an island with no food and no
water, yet he does not fear for his life.
37.
A man walks into a bar and asks for water. The
bartender pulls out a gun and points it at him.
The man says, "Thank you," and walks out.
39.
Taxi stops, the taxi driver opens the door and a
dead men falls on the road. What had happened?
32.
An Arab sheikh tells his two sons that are to race
their camels to a distant city to see who will
inherit his fortune. The one whose camel arrives
last will win. The brothers, after wandering
aimlessly for days, ask a wise man for advice.
After hearing the advice they jump on the camels
and race as fast as they can to their destination.
34.
A man marries twenty women in his village but
isn't charged with polygamy.
36.
A man is driving his car. He turns on the radio,
listens for five minutes, turns around, goes
home, and shoots his wife.
38.
The telephone rang in the middle of the night
and the woman woke up. When she answered it
the caller hung up. The caller felt better.
40.
A man came to visit at a convent while the
superior mother was out of town. He left before
she returned, and was careful to leave nothing
behind. The nuns said nothing about his visit, so
how did the superior mother figure out that a
man had been there?
 41.
A woman proves in court that her husband was
murdered by her sister, but the judge decides
that the sister cannot be punished. Why?
43.
A man woke up in the middle of the night and
turned off the light. Ten people died as result.
Why?
45.
Agatha spent several days in the hospital. She
wasnt injured, and she wasnt sick, but she did
have to be carried out when she left though. Why
was she in the hospital?
47.
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?
42.
Why was the man able to pass three cars going
70 miles-per-hour, while he was going only 60
miles-per-hour?
44.
A woman bought new shoes, and shortly
afterwards died from a knife-wound. Why?
46.
A man and his wife raced through the streets.
They stopped, and the husband got out of the
car. When he came back, his wife was dead, and
there was a stranger in the car.
48.
A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds
him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she
hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out
together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together.
How can this be?

2 Hint: You can make everyone happy.
Hint: The police only know two things, that the
criminals name is John and that he is in a
particular house.
Answer: The fireman is the only man in the
room. The rest of the poker players are women.
4 3
Hint: It does not matter what the baby lands on,
and it has nothing to do with luck.
Answer: The baby fell out of a ground floor
window.
6
Hint: This has nothing to do with adoption or
time travel.
Answer: The surgeon cannot operate on her own
son; she is his mother.
8 Hint: A alternate version of the problem is...
Answer: The man was a fisherman. He had
caught a big fish. He went to phone his friend and
while he was explaining how LOOOONG the fish
was, he broke the glass walls and cut himself and
bled to death.)
10
Hint: There was a puddle of water under his feet.
Answer: He had climbed a big block of ice and so
he didnt need the chair :-D The ice melted
because it was hot...
1
Your car can only contain one passenger, so
whom should it be?
Answer: The old lady of course! After helping the
old lady into the car, you can give your keys to
your friend, and wait with your perfect partner for
the bus.
Hint: He is very proud, so refuses to ever ask for
help.
Answer: The man is a dwarf. He cant reach the
upper elevator buttons, but he can ask people to
push them for him. He can also push them with
his umbrella.
5
Hint: His mother was an odd woman.
Answer: When Bad Boy Bubby opened the cellar
door he saw the living room and, through its
windows, the garden. He had never seen these
before because his mother had kept him all his
life in the cellar.
7
Saradhi, Nick & Ted win a raffle contest. The prize
is three hard boiled eggs in a basket. After
discussing how to divide the prize, each take one
egg. Nick & Ted get hungry and so eat their eggs.
One of the original eggs is still left in original
basket.
Answer: The last person took the basket with the
last egg still inside.
9
Answer: He was a window cleaner at a
skyscraper. His shift was over, so he looked at the
window, combed his hair and made one-step back
to see better. This was his end.
12
Answer: He climbed on a block of ice which has
since melted.
14
Answer: Anthony and Cleopatra were goldfish
whose bowl was knocked over by a clumsy dog.
16
Answer: They were two of a set of triplets (or
quadruplets etc.)
18
Answer: The three men had been stranded on a
desert island. Desperate for food, they had agreed to
amputate their left arms in order to eat them. They
swore an oath that each would have his left arm cut
off. One of them was a doctor and he cut the arms off
his two companions. They were then rescued. But his
oath was still binding so he later had to have his arm
amputated and sent to his colleagues... This is often
told with a further twist whereby a doctor pays a tramp
a large sum in order to amputate the tramp s arm
which the doctor then sends to another man who
inspects it etc....
20
Answer: The man s horse was called Friday.
11
Answer: The man had hiccups. The barman
recognized this from his speech and drew the gun
in order to give him a shock. It worked and cured
the hiccups - so the man no longer needed the
water.
13
Answer: The man had jumped from a plane but
his parachute had failed to open. It is the
unopened package... This is sometimes given with
the following rather elegant clue - as he
approached the centre of the field he knew he
was going to die.
15
Answer: They were used by children who made
a snowman. The snow has now melted.
17
Answer: He was playing Monopoly.
19
Answer: He recognized Adam and Eve as the
only people without navels. Because they were
not born of women, they had never had umbilical
cords and therefore they never had navels.
22
Answer: The poison in the punch came from the
ice cubes. When the man drank the punch the ice
was fully frozen. Gradually it melted, poisoning
the punch.
24
Answer: The man had visited his wife in hospital.
She was on a life-support machine. As he was
walking down the stairs all the lights went out.
There had been a power cut and the emergency
back-up systems had failed. He knew that she
had died.
26
Answer: He and a number of other passengers
were making a balloon trip in a desperate
attempt to flee a country. The balloon had to lose
weight to stop it from crashing. He drew the short
match and had to jump.
28
Answer: During a forest fire, a fire-fighting plane
had scooped up some water from the lake to drop
on the fire. The plane had accidentally picked up
the unfortunate swimmer.
30
Hint: There isn't just tea in there...
Answer: The man had already put sugar into the
tea.
21
Answer: A square manhole cover can be turned
and dropped down the diagonal of the manhole. A
round manhole cannot be dropped down the
manhole. So for safety and practicality, all
manhole covers should be round.
23
Answer: The dish that the two men ordered was
albatross. They had been stranded many years earlier
on a desert island. When the man tasted albatross he
realized that he had never tasted it before. This meant
that the meat he had been given on the island was not
albatross as he had been told. He correctly deduced
that he had eaten the flesh of his son who had died
when they first reached the island.
25
Hint: Brother is not the answer.
Answer: The blind beggar was the sister of her
brother who died.
27
Answer: She was a circus tight-rope walker who
walked blindfolded over a high wire. The band
played as she crossed and when the music
stopped it was the signal that she had reached
the end of the walk and could safely alight. One
day the conductor was taken ill and the stand-in
conductor ended the piece of music too early. She
stepped off to her death.
29
Answer: At the time she went into labor, the
mother of the twins was travelling by boat. The
older twin, Terry, was born first early on March
1st. The boat then crossed the International Date
line (or any time zone line) and Kerry, the
younger twin, was born on February the 28th. In a
leap year the younger twin celebrates her
birthday two days before her older brother.
32
Hint: It doesn't mean that the brother has to
arrive last...
Answer: The wiseman tells them to swap
camels.
34
Hint: He only marries them...
Answer: He's a priest; he is marrying them to
other people, not to himself.
36
Hint: What he hears on the radio makes him
very angry.
Answer: The DJ from the radio station phones
a mobile phone and a lover answers and then
his wife tells him in a lusty voice to hang up,
because she wants him one more time whilst
her husband is out.
38
Hint: They are in a hotel.
Answer: The woman was snoring and so the
caller phoned her to stop it.
40
Answer: Because a toilet seat was up.
31
Hint: Countries aren't always that far apart.
Answer: He was a postman delivering the mail
to embassies.
33
Hint: What will the fire burn next?
Answer: Set fire to the other half of the island
then walk behind the fire onto the burnt ground.
35
Hint: There are many types of island
Answer: He is a policeman on a traffic
island.
37
Hint: The bartender has no intention of
shooting him.
Answer: He has hiccups
39
Answer: The previous passenger was a spider
lover and he forgot a box with his spider there.
This dead man panicked when he saw it and so he
was bitten by a poisonous spider.
42 41

Answer: The cars he passed were going in the Answer: The sisters are Siamese twins.
opposite direction.

44
Answer: She was the assistant to a knife-thrower
in a circus, and the new shoes made her stand
two inches higher, throwing off the aim of the
performer.
43
Answer: He was the lighthouse keeper, and
turned off the light, causing a ship to wreck on
the rocks.

46 45

Answer: The wife was about to have a baby.

They drove to the hospital. The husband left to Answer: She was a newborn baby.
get a wheelchair, but the baby was born in the
meantime, and the wife didn't survive the birth.

48
47
Answer: The woman was a photographer. She
shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and Answer: The third. Lions that haven't eaten in
hung it up to dry. three years are dead.