Best literal thinking Puzzle

 Best literal thinking Puzzle 

1. The 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 or go to shopping. When he returns he takes the elevator to the seventh floor and walks up the stairs to reach his apartment on the tenth floor. He hates walking, then why does he do it?

2. The man who hanged himself.

Not far from Dhaka, there is a wooden barn. The barn is completely empty, except a dead man hanging  from middle of the  central rafter. The rope around his neck is ten feet long and his feet are three feet off the floor. The nearest wall is twenty feet away from the man. It is not possible to climb up the wall or along the  rafter. The man hanged himself. How did he do it?

3. Death in field.

A man is laying deed in a field. Next to him there is a unopened package.  There are no other creature in the field. How did he die?

4. A man rode into a town on Friday. He stayed for three nights, and left the town on Friday. How is it possible?

5. why is it better to have round manhole covers then square?

6. A man was walking downstairs in a building. He suddenly realized that his wife had just dead. How?

7. One day John celebrated his birthday and two days latter his older twin brother David celebrated his birthday. How?

8. A man is stranded in a island covered with forest. One day when wind was blowing from the west, lighting strikes at the west end of the island, and sets fire to the forest. The fire is violent and burning  everything on its path, without interventions the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process. There are cliff around the island,  so he cannot jump off. How can the man survive the fire.

9. you are at an unmarked intersection. One way is city of lies and other is to city of truth.  Citizens of city of lies always lie and Citizens of the city of truth always tell the  truth.

A citizens of one of those cities ( you don’t know which) is at the intersection. What question could you ask to him to find out the way of city of truth.