Joe leaves his house wearing a mask and carrying an empty sack. One and half-hours later he returns and the sack is now full. Joe dumps out everything in the sack on the floor, sorts it out and then goes off to bed. What had Joe been up to?

A man lives on the 12th floor of an apartment building. Every morning he wakes up, gets dressed, eats breakfast, and then takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator or if it is raining he goes back to the 12th floor. However, if there is nobody else in the elevator and it hasn’t rained, he goes to the 10th floor and walks up the two flights of stairs to his apartment. Why?
A man goes on a trip riding his horse. He is gone for two weeks. He leaves on a Monday but comes back on Thursday. How is that possible?

A man was running home. Near home he met a masked man. He stopped. Then he turned around and ran back to where he started. Why?

Answers:

a) Joe is a child who had gone trick-or-treating for Halloween.
b) The man is short. Because he can’t reach the button to the 12th floor he has to ask people to push it for him, or if it is raining
he can use an umbrella to reach the button for the 12th floor.
c) The man’s horse is named Thursday.
d) It was a baseball game. The man was on third, and was trying to steal home. The masked man was the catcher who had the ball and would tag him out of the game.