Lateral Thinking #13- Man In The Elevator -
A 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. He hates walking so why does he do it?
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.
HINT: The elevator is perfectly normal and the design of the building is perfectly normal, but
there is something different about the man.
ANSWER:
The man is very short (i.e. a little person).
EXPLANATION: Because of his short stature, the man is unable to reach any higher than the button
for the 7th floor (elevator floor number buttons are laid out in descending floor order from top to
bottom).
Do you have a
suggestion for this puzzle (e.g. something that should
be mentioned/clarified in the question or solution, bug, typo, etc.)?