A serial killer kidnapped five different people and sat them down each with two pills in their hand and a glass of water.
He told them each to take one pill but warned them that one was poisonous and the other was harmless. Whichever pill the victim didn’t take, the serial killer would take. Every victim somehow chose the poisonous pill and died.
How did the serial killer get them all to take the poisonous pill?
Riddle AnswerYou can paddle your canoe seven miles per hour through any placid lake. The stream flows at three miles per hour. The moment you start to paddle up stream a fisherman loses one of his bobbers in the water fourteen miles up stream of you.
How many hours does it take for you and the bobber to meet?
Riddle AnswerAndy is put in a cell with a dirt floor and only one window. The window is too high for him to reach. The only thing in the cell is a shovel.
He won’t be able to get any food or water and only has two days to escape or he’ll die.
Andy can’t dig a tunnel because it will take him much longer than two days to do it.
How will Andy escape from the cell?
Riddle AnswerA man lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every day he takes the elevator to go down to the ground floor to go to work. When he returns he takes the same elevator to the seventh floor and walks up the stairs to reach his apartment on the tenth floor. If there is someone else in the elevator with him or if it was raining that day, he goes back to the tenth floor directly.
Note that there is nothing wrong with the elevator or the design of the building. It’s a perfectly normal elevator in a perfectly normal building.
He hates walking up the stairs, so why does he do it?
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