Lateral Thinking Puzzles, a.k.a. Yes/No Puzzles

A man with a gun is running through a forest, followed by more armed men. The first man stops, yells 'You won't get the gold anyway!', shoots and keeps running. How come?

A man received a package in the mail. He opened it up and discovered a human arm. He nodded with satisfaction, wrapped it up again and mailed to a different address. How come?

A man goes to sleep at night, then wakes up in the morning, listens to the radio and kills himself. Why?

A boy rings the doorbell. When the door opens, he says 'Thank you!' and leaves. Why?

A man is walking down the corridor in a passenger train. Through a half-opened compartment door, he sees a sleeping woman with a missing finger. He goes to his own compartment, takes a gun, comes back and shoots the woman. Then he exits on the very next station, goes to the police and confesses. They let him go. Why?

A cowboy rides up to a saloon and asks the bartender for a glass of water. The bartender takes out his gun and shoots. The cowboy says 'Thank you!' and rides off.

A man walks into a restaurant, orders roasted albatross, eats one bite and kills himself. Why?

A man is sitting at his desk. He regularly picks up the phone receiver, listens, puts it back down. Sometimes he leaves the room and comes back shortly. What's going on?

She looked into his eyes, asked 'Do you love me?' and died.

A man lives on the 13th floor of an apartment building. Every day, when going to work, he takes the elevator down to the 1st floor. When coming home from work, he takes the elevator to the 4th floor and then walks the rest of the way up. But on rainy days, he takes the elevator all the way up. Why?

A dead naked man lies in the middle of a desert with a match in his hand. How did he die?

A cabin, locked from the inside, is perched on the side of a mountain. It is forced open, and thirty people are found dead inside.

As a man jumps out of a window, he hears the telephone ring and regrets having jumped.

A man walks into a room, shoots, and kills himself.

Two people in a room. One looks around and realizes he's going to die.

A man drives over a bridge, then turns around, stops the car, and jumps off the bridge.

A man leaves a motel room, goes to his car, honks the horn, and returns.

A man drops a bottle. A minute later, he curses.

Mrs. Smith is a known vegetarian. However, every day on her way home from work she buys 10oz. of meat at a local butcher's.

Tom cannot read, write, or speak. He does not know his own name or how to tie his shoes. He has never worked a day in his life. Despite these shortcomings, Tom is given a high-paying job - the top position of an internationally reknowned organization. How come?

A man in a hotel was having a difficult time falling asleep. He got up, opened the drapes, and then fell asleep easily. How come?

See more puzzles here or here in Russian.