A man lives on the 44th floor of his building. On rainy days, when he gets home from work, he takes the elevator all the way up to his floor. But on sunny days, he goes up to floor 20 and walks the rest of the way. Why does he do this?
The man is a midget and cannot reach button "44" in the elevator on sunny days. On rainy days he has his umbrella with him and is able to use it to press the button.
Five friends have their gardens next to one another, where they grow three kinds of crops: fruits (apple, pear, nut, cherry), vegetables (carrot, parsley, gourd, onion) and flowers (aster, rose, tulip, lily).
They grow 12 different varieties.
Everybody grows exactly 4 different varieties
Each variety is at least in one garden.
Only one variety is in 4 gardens.
Only in one garden are all 3 kinds of crops.
Only in one garden are all 4 varieties of one kind of crops.
Pears are only in the two border gardens.
Paul's garden is in the middle with no lily.
Aster grower doesn't grow vegetables.
Rose grower doesn't grow parsley.
Nuts grower has also gourd and parsley.
In the first garden are apples and cherries.
Only in two gardens are cherries.
Sam has onions and cherries.
Luke grows exactly two kinds of fruit.
Tulips are only in two gardens.
Apples are in a single garden.
Only in one garden next to the Zick's is parsley.
Sam's garden is not on the border.
Hank grows neither vegetables nor asters.
Paul has exactly three kinds of vegetable.
Who has which garden and what is grown where?
Hank: pear apple cherry rose
Sam: cherry onion rose tulip
Paul: carrot gourd onion rose
Zick: aster rose tulip lily
Luke: pear nut gourd parsley
A petshop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears". Davey bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot.
How can this be?
I look flat, but I am deep,
Hidden realms I shelter.
Lives I take, but food I offer.
At times I am beautiful.
I can be calm, angry and turbulent.
I have no heart, but offer pleasure as well as death.
No man can own me, yet I encompass what all men must have.