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Wanted to do that for so long, now we have finally the opportunity to do that! A person posts a riddle for all chaps in here. Whoever solves it first can post the next riddle or let someone else post one.

Rules - No google would be appreciated otherwise it would be a little bit boring or? However you are more than welcome to google riddles if you have to post one :)

Remember honesty is the best policy! Allright, first riddle:

There was a man who lived on the 14th floor of a high-rise apartment building. One night, he came home very late. He got into the elevator and pushed the button for his floor. The button lit up, the doors closed and the elevator began to ascend.

Just then, the button for the 8th floor lit up.
"I guess someone else is getting on..." he thought to himself.
A few seconds later, he realized something.

He started hitting the Stop button. The elevator came to a halt on the 3rd floor. As soon as the doors opened, the man jumped out and raced down the stairs. He booked into a hotel for the night and only went back to his apartment building when it was morning.

What happened here?
 

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He realised that he hadn't done his daily exercises of "running down the stairs from the 3rd floor and down the road to the nearest hotel"
 

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He realised that he hadn't done his daily exercises of "running down the stairs from the 3rd floor and down the road to the nearest hotel"

You are almost there :D :D :D NOT xDD
 

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the numbers only light up when someone is in the lift with you

so he realised there was someone with him....
 

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the numbers only light up when someone is in the lift with you

so he realised there was someone with him....

You are close! But there is no one else in the lift, it is only him :)
 

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You are close! But there is no one else in the lift, it is only him :)
ok then there was a ghost in the lift with him.
 

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Wanted to do that for so long, now we have finally the opportunity to do that! A person posts a riddle for all chaps in here. Whoever solves it first can post the next riddle or let someone else post one.

Rules - No google would be appreciated otherwise it would be a little bit boring or? However you are more than welcome to google riddles if you have to post one :)

Remember honesty is the best policy! Allright, first riddle:

There was a man who lived on the 14th floor of a high-rise apartment building. One night, he came home very late. He got into the elevator and pushed the button for his floor. The button lit up, the doors closed and the elevator began to ascend.

Just then, the button for the 8th floor lit up.
"I guess someone else is getting on..." he thought to himself.
A few seconds later, he realized something.

He started hitting the Stop button. The elevator came to a halt on the 3rd floor. As soon as the doors opened, the man jumped out and raced down the stairs. He booked into a hotel for the night and only went back to his apartment building when it was morning.

What happened here?
He was a midget
 

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I have the feeling that was the answer for another lift riddle @Gxbbs :D :D
 

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the numbers only light up when someone is in the lift with you

so he realised there was someone with him....

@t0daY this has to be right? Get rid of the second part though.
 

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There was a serial killer in the eight floor who killed everyone trying to get past his floor in the night and the dude in the elevator knew that?
 

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You are very close. He knew somebody was in the 8th floor (do not think it was a serial killer though :D) but why was he suddenly so scared? Has something to do with the mechanics of an elevator.
 

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He goes up, the light goes on, so it's somebody wanting to go up with him (if it's a somewhat modern elevator). By his reaction somebody he knows but doesn't like.

It's probably his mother-in-law (or something equally clichéd) wanting to lay in on him for being so late. Saw him coming and ran to the elevator to intercept.
 

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He goes up, the light goes on, so it's somebody wanting to go up with him (if it's a somewhat modern elevator). By his reaction somebody he knows but doesn't like.

It's probably his mother-in-law (or something equally clichéd) wanting to lay in on him for being so late. Saw him coming and ran to the elevator to intercept.

100 points for @InsaneBase :) :) Here is the proper explanation where I got the riddle from:

"So this guy is coming home late and gets in the elevator. As he's in the elevator, which is ascending, the button for the 8th floor lights up. Someone else up in the middle of the night? It happens, no biggie. Right? Until you realize that the elevator is going UP. Which means that it would only stop on the 8th floor.. if someone on the 8th floor had pushed the button for going UP. If they had pushed the button for going DOWN, the elevator would've zoomed past the floor and picked the passenger up on the way back DOWN. That's how elevators are programmed, for efficiency, right?

So whoever was on the 8th floor waiting for an elevator in the middle of the night wasn't looking to go down and exit the building.. they were waiting for someone to get into an elevator with."

You want to do the next riddle or shall somebody step in for you?
 

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Yay!

Riddle me this! Columbo fans excluded! :p

I have three bags of gold coins. Two bags contain real gold and one bag's contents are fake. The fake gold coins are indistinguishable from the real ones, but they weigh an ounce more than the real gold.

You are given a scale to weigh it, but are only allowed to use the scale ONCE.

How can you find out which bag contains the fake coins?
 

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Yay!

Riddle me this! Columbo fans excluded! :p

I have three bags of gold coins. Two bags contain real gold and one bag's contents are fake. The fake gold coins are indistinguishable from the real ones, but they weigh an ounce more than the real gold.

You are given a scale to weigh it, but are only allowed to use the scale ONCE.

How can you find out which bag contains the fake coins?
put all three on at the same time take one off at a time the weight will go down with evey bag removed and if the fake one is removed after a real one the weight will go down plus one ounce
 

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Sorry, one fake coin weighs one ounce more than one real coin.

To clarify (sorry, language barrier) You are only allowed to read the scale once.

If you can remove stuff, you would be right.
 
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Sorry, one fake coin weighs one ounce more than one real coin.
Either way my answer still stands be it a bag or one coin if you put all three on and take one at a time off the weight lost should be exact with every bag/coin thats removed untill you remove the bag or coin that is fake were the wight would differ etc lol
 

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