Try to solve the mystery of the penthouse dweller and challenge your friends too

Humans like to be challenged and they like to solve a problem even more. That moment when our face lights up and we say “a-ha, I know!” it’s very rewarding and our brain loves it! Riddles are great for challenging our own reasoning and even better for challenging friends at the end of the party, when all the topics have already been exhausted.

Therefore, the awesome.club challenges you to solve the penthouse dweller’s riddle, so you can also challenge your friends later — but it’s not worth reading the answer first, agreed?

Romeu is a very ordinary man who lives on the 17th floor of a building, on the top floor. The building is also ordinary, nothing different from any other 17-story residential building. Every day, Romeo take the elevator down all 17 floors to go to work, a pretty normal attitude for everyone else in the building. But he has an unusual routine every afternoon when he gets home from work.

When he arrives from work, Romeo enters the elevator, goes up only to the 14th floor and finishes going up the other floors. by the stairs🇧🇷 Every day it’s the same routine: he takes the elevator down 17 floors in the morning and only goes up 14 in the afternoon — on the rest, he walks. Except on two occasions. When it is raining, Romeo arrives from work and takes the elevator normally to his floor. The same happens when he is accompanied.

This is your challenge. Try to find a good reason why Romeo doesn’t take the elevator up every floor every day. Why does he only do this when it’s raining or when he’s with someone else? Is it for the same reason in both situations? There is nothing wrong with the building or the elevator. Nothing fanciful or supernatural either. The riddle’s answer is something quite banal, actually.

To arrive at the answer, attention to detail is required. Resist the temptation to look before thinking through all the possibilities. Reread as many times as necessary, visualize the story happening as if you were watching a movie. Imagine Romeo going to work and coming back on a sunny day and on a rainy day. What’s the difference? And why would it be different also when he is accompanied?

We are sure that if you think about it very hard, you will be able to come up with an answer. And after that, you can challenge your friends and family and see all the attempts to find a plausible reason for Romeo’s attitude. Rest assured, this is a lot of fun to do at parties. Your friends will be debating and creating theories while you eat and drink in peace. Until they, like you, have that satisfying “a-ha, I know” moment.

If you’ve thought of all the possibilities and eliminated the absurd ones, what’s left is probably the right one. We want to congratulate you for your effort, whether you got it right or not. Below you can read the answer and its explanation. The reason for Romeo’s controversial attitude is very simple: he is a man with dwarfism. Due to his small stature, Romeo cannot reach all the elevator buttons.

To go down to the ground floor, he doesn’t find any problems, since the respective button is right at the bottom of the panel. But on the way back, the highest button Romeo reaches is the 14th floor, so he needs to finish climbing the stairs. Except when it’s raining, in which case he uses his umbrella to reach the 17th floor button. Or when he’s with someone else, because the other person presses 17 for him.

Now that you’ve read the riddle’s answer, we want to know your opinion. without revealing the answerwrite in the comments if you got it right and if you found this riddle easy or hard.