Romances come and go, dramas send us on an emotional rollercoaster, and comedies make us forget our woes for a moment, but there’s one story genre that will never go out of fashion. We’re talking about murder mysteries that can only be solved by the likes of Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, and You. But, because not all of us have the time to invest in reading a daily dose of a crime novel or watching a mystery movie, we found a short-form substitute that might even be more thrilling—murder mystery riddles!
Before you set out to solve a mystery, here’s a fair warning: don’t do it at work! Not because these story riddles are too scary for that, but because they’re so addictive. Once you get a whiff of a mystery, you might get so invested in solving it that hours might pass by you unnoticed. And while that’s all fine while you’re at home, it might not be the best idea to engage in such a hobby while you’re working.
So, grab an old-timey fedora, find a monocle, and let’s get to solving these detective riddles! With over a hundred murder riddles on our list, you’ll be entertained for quite some time. And if you find yourself stuck on any of these mystery questions, we’ve supplemented them with answers in the comments below each submission. Best of luck!
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A truck driver is going down a one-way street in the wrong direction. A police car drives past him but doesn’t stop him. Why?
A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years.
A man was found dead with a cassette recorder in one hand and a gun in his other hand. When the police came in, they immediately pressed the play button on the cassette. They heard the man say, “I have nothing else to live for. I can’t go on.” Then there was the sound of a gunshot. After listening to the cassette tape, the police knew that it was not a suicide, but a homicide. How did they know?
Answer: If the man shot himself while he was recording, how did he rewind the cassette tape so that the play button worked immediately?
How Do You Solve a Mystery Like Sherlock Holmes?
If you’re such a huge psychopath riddle buff as we are, chances are, you’re short of being enamored with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. Well, maybe not with him, per se, but rather with his ability to solve a mystery like it was a child’s play. Understandably, many of us would like to emulate Holmes’ genius, and while that might seem far-fetched at a glance, there are some actual tips on how to do it, like Mister Sherlock.
Observe the details. Leave no stone unturned and no clue unnoticed! Even the smallest details matter to solve a mystery successfully.
Use all your senses. Although seeing is believing, don’t forget the power of touching, smelling, hearing, and tasting. Unless you suspect poison, then omit the tasting part.
Adapt to the situation. Have a suspect? Try to get into their mindset and see if they would do that. The answer to your crime riddle might be right there.
Give yourself time for thought. A bit of quiet time without any outside triggers might be just what you need to form a conclusion or find that last piece of evidence you need to solve a mystery at hand.
Try to employ these tips the next time you’re solving detective riddles; we bet they’ll be of use!
Why did a woman call the police over a man who knocked on her door and claimed that he thought the room was his?
A Japanese boat was stuck in water because of the storm, and after the storm, the captain was found dead. The engineer was busy fixing the signals, the cook was managing the wine barrels, the wife went to the room, and the maid was fixing the upside-down turned flag. Who killed the captain?
Answer: The maid. A Japanese flag is the same from all sides, with a red dot in the center of a white background.
A girl was at her mother's funeral, where she met an interesting man and fell for him right away. Before they could exchange numbers, he was nowhere to be seen. She didn't even know his name. Later the police arrested her for killing her older brother. Why did she kill him?
Answer: She hoped the man would show-up for her brother's funeral too!
How Do You Make a Murder Mystery Riddle?
While solving story riddles is undeniably fun, creating one of your own might also be a nice little source of entertainment. If you were wondering how does one go about creating murder mystery riddles, we have collected some pointers for you right here:
Set the scene. Choose your victim and your perpetrator and put them in an interesting setting. Describe your setting with relevant details; the more, the merrier!
Construct your crime riddle. Prepare your riddle with the red herring and actual clues to encourage critical thinking.
Provide a solution for your audience. Be sure your riddle isn’t too hard for your audience, and provide them with a closure to your murder riddle.
Et Voila: You have your very own detective riddle! If, however, you might want to solve existing mysteries instead, feel free to check out the rest of the murder mystery riddles that are on our list.
One night, a woman was sitting inside a house with no light. She did not even have a lamp or candle, nothing at all. Yet how was she reading?
A woman and a man go on a date. While on their date, the woman shoots the man, drowns the man, and hangs the man. The next night, the same man and woman go on a date and both of them are 100% fine. How is this possible?
Answer: The woman shoots a picture of him, drowns the picture to develop it, then she hangs the picture.
A man was found dead while on his work trip to California. The suspects were Mars, Mason, Barry, Lisa, and Alex. On the calendar, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 were written in blood. How to decode the numbers to find the killer?
Answer: The numbers are those of the months whose first letters spell out 'Mason'.
The woman watched a guy being murdered. She cries but does nothing to save him. Why?
A killer gives his victims 2 pills to play a game. One of the pills is a vitamin pill, and the other is deadly. The victims choose one pill and gulp it down with a glass of water, and the killer swallows the other at random, and still every one of the victims dies. How?
Three men were swimming in the ocean. The ocean guard called them to stay away from water during high tides. He saw that only two men’s hair was wet. What happened to the third man?
There is a man in a room dead with 52 bicycles in front of him what happened?
Answer: He was killed during a poker game. Bicycles is the brand of card.
“Who shot her?” cried a man as he rushed into the hospital where his wife was kept. The man was stopped by the police who asked him where he was last night he told them he was spending the night at a friend’s place. He told them that when he called to check on his wife, the maid answered the call and just told him that his wife has been taken to the hospital. And as soon as he heard this he came running to the Hospital. After hearing this the police immediately arrested him. Why?
Answer: As, soon as he entered the hospital, she cried “Who shot her?” How would he know that she was shot when no one informed him so.
A girl got killed, the killer took her iPhone, AirPods, piano, and money. What did the killer take first?
You are a junior detective investigating a case. Boys at an apartment complain that every day, they have an egg spinning competition with only raw eggs, and every day one particular boy wins. The boys want you to find out how. You are observing the boy spinning an egg when suddenly it drops to the floor. The apartment clerk casually hands him a broom to clean it up, as if it happens every day. You now know why the boy always wins the daily competition. How?
Answer: The clerk handed the boy a broom, so the egg the boy was spinning must have been hard-boiled. If the egg was raw, the clerk would have handed the boy a mop.
A couple went on holiday for three weeks. They carefully locked their house, and had a neighbor check on the place while they were gone. When they returned, the wife was distressed to learn that, because of a power failure, she had lost all her fine jewelry. She had hidden the jewelry in what she thought was a very safe place. She was not robbed. Her jewelry was lost by accident. Why?
Answer: The wife had hidden her best jewelry inside her freezer in a bag among all the frozen food. Because of a general power failure, the freezer had gone off. A friendly neighbor (who had a key in order to water the plants) had tried to be helpful by throwing out all the bad food and with it went the jewelry.
What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
A wealthy man lives alone in a small cottage. Being partially handicapped, he had everything delivered to his cottage. The mailman was delivering a letter one Thursday when he noticed that the front door was ajar. Through the opening he could see the man's body lying in a pool of dried blood. When a police officer arrived he surveyed the scene. On the porch were two bottles of warm milk, Monday's newspaper, a catalog, flyers, and unopened mail. The police officer suspects it was foul play. Who does he suspect and why?
Answer: The police officer suspects the newspaper delivery person. The absence of Tuesday's and Wednesday's newspaper indicates that the delivery person knew there was no one there to read it.
100 people are standing in a circle. The person standing at number 1 is having a sword. He kills the person next to him with the sword and then gives the sword to the third person. This process is carried out till there is just one person left. Which number survives at the last?
Answer: 73rd person will survive at last. If the number of players is the power of 2, the last person to survive will be the one who started it. But since the number here is not the power of 2, we will take the greatest power of 2 that is less than the number of players (100) which is 64. So when starting with 100 players - we need to kill 36 of them to get down to a power of 2 (64). Since we kill every other person starting at player 2 the last person we need to die is player 72, they will be killed by player 71 and the first person in the effective power of 2 game, who will win is player 73. It's worth noting that this process of reducing to a power of 2 will always be completed in the first round regardless of the number of players.
Someone used a sharp item to kill Robert; his friends clarified they couldn’t have killed Robert as they only had a music player, a water bottle, and some papers with them. How did the detective find out they were lying?
Answer: One friend had put a piece of broken ice in the water bottle, which melted after Robert was killed.
One woman was not punished by the court despite her sister claiming and showing ample proof that she murdered her husband. Why was the woman not jailed?
A murderer informed police that he would kill someone in the only place from where one couldn’t see the Eiffel tower. How did the police catch him?
Ray Whitcombe was found dead in his office at his desk. The police have narrowed the suspects down to three people: Mrs. Barbara Whitcombe, Ray's wife. Mr. Jason McCubbins, Ray's business partner. Mr. Harold Nichols, Ray's best friend. All three visited Mr. Whitcombe the day of his murder, but all three provided the police with stories of explanation as to the reason for their visit. Police found Mr. Whitcombe with his wrist watch still on his right arm, a torn up picture of his wife laying on the floor beside the trash can, and an ink pen in his right hand. On the desk, the police found a name plate, a telephone that was off the hook, and a personal calendar turned to the July 5th page with 7B91011 written on it. After examining this evidence, the police knew their suspect. Who was it?
Answer: Jason McCubbins, Ray's business partner. The calendar was the clue to solving this murder. The police realized that since Mr. Whitcombe was wearing his watch on his right arm, he must have been left-handed. Realizing that the number on the calendar was written in a hurry and with his opposite hand, police matched the written number with the months of the year. So the B was an 8, thereby giving us 7-8-9-10-11: July, August, September, October, November. Use the first letter of each month and it spells J-A-S-O-N.
A girl and a boy were out one night. They were in the woods, and they saw 3 men hunting. Next day the girl and boy were found dead. Why is this?
A homicide detective is called at a crime scene. A man is lying dead in front of an abandoned building. It is believed that the man jumped out of a window off the abandoned building and committed suicide. The detective asks his team to collect evidence and he heads towards the building. He goes to the first floor and towards the room that is on the front side. Inside the room, he lights a cigarette, walks towards the window facing the dead body, opens the window and throws out the cigarette. He then goes to the second floor and repeats the same process. He keeps doing the same thing till he is done with all the floors and then takes the lift to the ground floor. Upon reaching there, he informs the team that it is not a suicide but a murder. How did he know that it was a not a suicide?
Answer: If the man had committed suicide, the window that he jumped from should have been left opened. But all the windows facing the dead body were closed. This means that someone closed the window after the man died.
A workman was killed at a construction site. The police began questioning a number of the other fellow workers. Based on past scrapes with the law, many of the following workers were considered prime suspects: The electrician was suspected of wiretapping once but was never charged. The carpenter thought he was a stud. He tried to frame another man one time. The glazier went to great panes to conceal his past. He still claims that he didnt do anything, that he was framed. The painter had a brush with the law several years ago. The heating, ventilation and air conditioning contractor was known to pack heat. He was arrested once but duct the charges. The mason was a prime suspect because he gets stoned regularly. The cabinet maker is an accomplished counter fitter. The autopsy led the police to arrest the carpenter, who subsequently confessed. Why?
Answer: The evidence against him was irrefutable. It was found that the workman, when he died, was hammered.
A woman was horrified to find a fly in her tea. The waiter took her cup and went into the kitchen and returned with a fresh cup of tea. She shouted, “You brought me the same cup of tea!” How did she know?
A man and his wife are driving in a car, but it breaks down. He gets out but makes sure that the windows are up and the doors are locked. When he comes back to his car, his wife is dead, there’s blood on the floor, and there is a stranger in the car. What happened?
A detective reported to a crime scene at the circus. A clown was found backstage in a pool of blood with his hands grasping his neck. How did he die?
The body of a hunter named Adrian was discovered at the bottom of a cliff, beneath the site where his girlfriend’s dead body was found. He was still fully clothed in cold-weather apparel befitting of the season, including hiking boots, mittens, several layered jackets, and thick trousers made of wool. A member of Adrian’s hunting party named James was questioned, and he told the police that he had overheard Adrian having a heated argument with his girlfriend, Lulo. According to James, the argument became aggressive – Adrian picked up a rock and bashed Lulo over the head, killing her. After delivering the blow, Adrian looked up to see James watching him and was so startled that he turned and ran right off of the cliff to his demise. James pointed out the rock that he believed Adrian had used to hit Lulo, and it was sent in for forensic analysis. After testing it, the lab discovered that Adrian’s fingerprints were indeed on the rock that supposedly killed Lulo. The police immediately arrested James for Adrian’s murder. How did they conclude Adrian was slain and that James was the culprit when forensics seemed to corroborate James’s story?
Answer: Adrian's body was still wearing mittens when he was found, so he could not have left fingerprints on the rock that James claimed killed Lulo. They concluded that James must have ended them both and planted Adrian's fingerprints to cover his tracks.
Two chickens were found dead on the farm. What does the detective suspect?
The body of a hunter named Adrian was discovered at the bottom of a cliff, beneath the site where his girlfriend's dead body was found. He was still fully clothed in cold-weather apparel befitting of the season, including hiking boots, mittens, several layered jackets, and thick trousers made of wool. A member of Adrian's hunting party named James was questioned, and he told the police that he had overheard Adrian having a heated argument with his girlfriend, Lulo. According to James, the argument became aggressive - Adrian picked up a rock and bashed Lulo over the head, killing her. After delivering the blow, Adrian looked up to see James watching him and was so startled that he turned and ran right off of the cliff to his demise. James pointed out the rock that he believed Adrian had used to hit Lulo, and it was sent in for forensic analysis. After testing it, the lab discovered that Adrian's fingerprints were indeed on the rock that supposedly killed Lulo. The police immediately arrested James for Adrian's murder. How did they conclude Adrian was slain and that James was the culprit when forensics seemed to corroborate James's story?
A detective is called to the site of a murder. A young woman who worked as a waitress at a nearby club called Jake's Palace had been hit over the head and then choked with a belt. Her attacker, assuming she was deceased, had left her there, but she had only been unconscious. She managed to drag herself 20 feet toward's the water's edge, where she scrawled a message in the sand before passing from her head wound. The two officers who were first on the scene found two partially eroded letters that looked like an "h" and a "p" and assumed the victim had written "help" in the sand before the water began to wash them away. While the detective is still assessing the scene, additional officers arrive, bringing three male suspects: 1) A man in ill-fitting clothing named Jersey who claimed he had only purchased the woman a drink at the club before she left without saying a word; 2) An older man named Shelby who owned Jake's Palace and claimed that he had seen the woman leave the club with the third man; and 3) A man who claimed the woman had only accompanied him to his car to get cigarettes and then returned to the club. After listening to their stories, the detective believes he has enough to solve the case. Who did it, and how did he know?
Answer: Considering the woman had crawled toward the water instead of away from it, and since she likely knew her time was short, the detective didn't believe she would have written "help," but instead the name of her attacker: "Shelby." The detective theorized that the woman had discovered the club owner was cheaitng his employees and planned to finger him, so Shelby followed her out of the club and assailed her near the beach.
There were 5 people in a room, I came and killed 4. How many remain?
Two cars were involved in an accident in the center of town. The man who was driving a little green car, had overtaken a big black car. The driver had misjudged the distance between him and the on-coming traffic and had to swerve back in, causing the black car to swerve and crash into a shop window. When the occupants of the cars were examined everyone in the green car was okay, but in the black car was one dead man. However, the driver of the green car was not charged with manslaughter, why was this so?
Answer: The black car was a hearse and was on its way to a funeral.
A man is discovered dead sitting at his desk, alone in the locked office. He did not commit suicide and there were no weapons in the room. The only clue is a sealed envelope on the desk in front of him. How did he die?
Answer: The envelope glue was poisoned and when the man licked the envelope to seal it, he died.
A man is found hanging in a room four feet off the floor. There is nothing else in the room except for a large puddle of water below him. The police do not see anything the man would have climb on to hang himself. Did he commit suicide and, if so, how did he do it?
Answer: He stood on a block of ice and put the noose around his neck. Once the ice melted, he was hung, and all that was left was a puddle of water on the floor.
A man eats dinner, goes up to his bedroom, turns off the lights, and goes to sleep. In the morning, he wakes up and looks outside. Horrified at what he sees, he hurls himself out his window to his death. Why does he do this?
Answer: The man was a lighthouse operator. He wasn’t supposed to turn off his lights. When he wakes up in the morning, he sees a giant ship that has crashed into the land, causing much catastrophe. Unable to go on, he decides to take his own life.
Accused of stealing the farmer’s chickens, a man is locked up in an empty room in the local jail. His cell has a dirt floor and is completely void of any accessories except for a shovel. There is a window overlooking the hills outside. The man is determined to break out and prove his innocence, but the window is too high to reach and beneath the shallow dirt floor is rock. How can he escape?
Answer: The man needs to use the shovel to make a pile of dirt that helps him reach the window. He can then climb on the pile and easily escape the cell.
A woman goes to the police claiming that someone broke into her house and stole her diamond bracelet while she was at work. The policemen investigate the crime scene and notice that the bedroom window is broken. There are muddy footprints all across the bedroom floor. However, the room is otherwise neat and organized. The following day, the woman is arrested for fraud. Why?
Answer: The bedroom window was broken from the inside. If somebody had broken in from the outside, there would have been glass pieces on the bedroom floor. Also, the room was perfectly tidy, and a thief would have left some sort of mess looking for the items. So, the thief was the woman who knew exactly where the bracelet was.
A man entered his house and was about to hang up his coat when he heard his wife shout; “No John! Don’t do it!” There was a shot and he could hear his wife fall down. When he entered the kitchen, he saw his wife and the gun lying on the floor. There was a police officer, a doctor, and a lawyer standing next to her. Who killed the man’s wife and how did the man know who it was?
Answer: The man knew it was the police officer, who had his name, John, on his badge.
Senator Blank and Senator Line met at a club to discuss the overthrow of their party leader. They each ordered a vodka on the rocks. Senator Blank downed his and ordered another. He then drank his second in one gulp and decided to wait before he ordered a third. Meanwhile, Senator Line, who was sipping his drink, suddenly fell forward dead. Both men were setup for an assassination. Why did Senator Line die and Senator Blank live?
Answer: Both Senator Blank and Senator Line were given drinks with poisoned ice cubes. Senator Blank drank his drinks so quickly that the ice didn’t have time to melt and release the poison.
It was a man’s birthday. He lay dead in the recreation room of his house. Next to his body was a note written in pencil. The note read “Happy Birthday, Friend.” The victim had a girlfriend; the police suspected her ex-boyfriend. They could find no obvious evidence. While searching the ex-boyfriend’s car, the police saw an envelope with the girlfriend’s address written on it. They thought they would get the handwriting on the envelop checked against the note. The scientist in charge came in early to work the next day; it was 7am. He looked out his window which faced east and stared at the rising sun and it was then that he realized how to prove the ex-boyfriend killed the man, even though the girlfriend’s address was not written in the same handwriting. How did he do it?
Answer: The scientist’s office faced east, and the sun was coming in through the window at a very low angle. He saw some very faint shadows on the surface of the envelope. He looked closer. There were the words embossed on the paper. They read “Happy Birthday, Friend.” The ex-boyfriend had forgotten that a pencil leaves an impression on paper beneath the page written on.
The Greens are a very wealthy family that lives in a big, circular home. Early one morning, Mr. Green wakes up to find his gardener’s still warm body in the front yard. He calls the police. The detective who comes asks the employees about their whereabouts and what they were doing early that morning. Driver: “I was outside washing the car.” Maid: “I was dusting the corners of the house.” Cook: “I was starting to make lunch for later.” From the replies he knew who the killer was. Who was it and how did they detective know?
A king has no sons, no daughters, and no queen. For this reason, he must decide who will take the throne after he dies. To do this he decides that he will give all of the children of the kingdom a single seed. Whichever child has the largest, most beautiful plant will earn the throne. At the end of the contest all of the children came to the palace with their enormous and beautiful plants in hand. After he looks at all of the children’s pots, he finally decides that the little girl with an empty pot will be the next queen. Why did he choose this little girl over all of the other children with their beautiful plants?
Answer: The king gave them all fake seeds and the little girl was the only honest child who didn’t switch seeds.
Dr. Miller was staying with his cousin, Alfred, in Alfred’s lakeside cabin. They were setting up Alfred’s will. Since Dr. Miller was Alfred’s closest living relative, much of Alfred’s estate was being left to him. One day, Alfred went to Dr. Miller very upset. “Doctor,” he began, “I have just found out that an old enemy is out to get me. He is coming very soon. Where will I go? Where can I hide? If he finds me, he will surely kill me. I do not have time to leave this cabin and hide in the woods.” Dr. Miller thought for a moment, and then grabbed a 5′ long bamboo fishing pole, with a diameter the size of a quarter. “Alfred, follow me out to the lake. This lake is 4′ deep. If you lie on the bottom of the lake and breathe through this pole, your enemy will never find you. I will be in the bulrushes with a shotgun, and I will shoot him when he comes. I will swim down to find you when he is gone.” Alfred thought that was a great idea and went down in the lake with the bamboo pole in his mouth. A few hours later, a ranger passed by. He found Alfred’s body. Dr. Miller told the police of the circumstance, and that Alfred had probably panicked, and died. Police arrested Dr. Miller on the charge of murdering Alfred. Why?
Yes, except... humans have pretty good CO2 detection system. You can't help but notice even small increase in the concentration and you will start to feel asphyxiated before you're in actual danger. In this case, the man could simply stand up... and his instincts would force him to. But imagine a bag with another gas was attached to the pole. Perhaps pure nitrogen. It's everywhere. We can't detect it. If you breathe pure nitrogen, you will asphyxiate... but, unlike CO2, you will never notice anything wrong before you lose consciousness.
Cops found a dead man lying in the snow. They saw the tracks of a footprint pair in between two parallel lines a few feet away from the dead body. Who should be on the cops' radar?
The geography teacher was found dead on the very first day of their school. The gardener was busy fixing the new saplings, the science teacher was taking a mid-semester test, the coach was playing basketball, and the principal was in the office. Who killed the geography teacher?
Answer: The science teacher. He cannot conduct a mid-year test on the first day of school.
Man killed his wife, and even though people watched him do so, no one could accuse him of the murder of his wife. Why?
Answer: The man's job was of an executioner, and his wife received the death penalty.
A rich man's son was kidnapped. The ransom note told him to bring a valuable diamond to a phone booth in the middle of a public park. Plainclothes police officers surrounded the park, intending to follow the criminal or his messenger. The rich man arrived at the phone booth and followed instructions but the police were powerless to prevent the diamond from leaving the park and reaching the crafty villain. What did he do?
The kidnapper built a trap door in the phone booth and went Harry Potter style
Mad Ade's Uncle, Phil Space, who doesn't like what passes for art these days, ran into the National Gallery and caused millions of pounds of damage to several masterpieces. Later that day, Uncle Phil was invited to meet the manager and was warmly thanked for his actions. How come?
Answer: Uncle Phil is a fireman. The water from his house damaged the paintings as he put out a fire in the gallery, but in the process rescuing hundreds of millions of pounds worth.
Once upon a time there existed a temple in India which housed three identical idols which spoke to the devotees. The idols were of – God of Truth, which always spoke the truth; God of Falsehood, which always lied; and God of Diplomacy which sometimes spoke the truth and at other times lied. The pilgrims come from all parts of the world to get their questions answered by the Gods. But there was a problem. As the idols were indistinguishable, devotees were not sure from which idol to ask their questions and in turn they did not know which God has answered and whether to believe it or not. Once a wise man visited the temple. He asked the question: "Which God is seated at the centre?" to all the three idols. The idol on the left, centre and right replied God of Truth, God of Diplomacy and God of Falsehood respectively. The wise man at once proclaimed that he had solved the mystery of the temple.
Answer: The idols from left to right are: God of Diplomacy, God of Falsehood, God of Truth. The God of Truth is not seated on the left because he always speaks the truth whereas the idol on the left replied that the God of Truth is seated at the centre. The God of Truth is also not seated in the centre as he always speaks the truth but the idol at the centre replied that the God of Diplomacy is seated at the centre. Therefore, the God of Truth is seated on the right. As God of Truth is seated on the right, and he always speaks the truth, then the The God of Falsehood is seated at the centre. The God of Diplomacy is seated on the left and he has lied.
A woman was in court for killing her husband. She said she wasn’t guilty and that she dearly missed him. In the closing statement, the woman’s lawyer stands up and says, “Her husband was just missing. Everyone look at the doors. He’s going to walk through them in about 30 seconds.” The entire jury stares at the doors waiting for waiting for this woman’s husband to walk through the doors. The lawyer and the woman stare at the jury. The lawyer concludes by saying, “See! If you were so sure she killed her husband, you wouldn’t be watching that door!” The jury immediately gave a guilty verdict. Why?
Answer: The woman was watching the jury and not the doors because she knew that her husband wouldn’t walk through them because she had killed him. If she has really missed him like she said, she would have been watching the doors.
A detective informed his wife that he would return home by 8:30, and he came home by 8:30. Why did the detective’s wife still get angry with him?
Answer: The detective returned home at 8:30 am instead of 8:30 pm the previous night.
A man kept crossing the border every day with bags of sand. Cops suspected the man was smuggling illegal goods into the country. The detective couldn’t find anything upon checking the bags, yet he got arrested. Why?
Every single person died in a plane crash. However, who survived?
You were in the garden. There are 34 people in the yard. You killed 30. How many people are in the garden?
Depends on whether 'garden' or 'yard' are the same thing. In UK English they aren't....
A guy and his wife went to the store and left their three children at home. When they returned, all of his children where dead. The maid said she was making the beds and the butler said he was putting away the groceries. Who did it?
Answer: The butler because the parents went to the store to get the groceries. Therefore, they were out of groceries and there was none to put away.
There was a person laying dead in the middle of the grass field with nothing but a weird kind of rock next to him. Also the nearest building was 50 miles away. And the man that was found dead was wearing the colors red, yellow, and blue. So who was the man and was the rock from earth?
"My neighbors think I'm a nosy old woman, but today I witnessed a murder. I was looking out my window when I saw something through the window of the apartment building opposite me. A man was in the middle of murdering a woman. The strange thing was, after he finished strangling her, he turned around and our eyes met. It was eerie. Then he pointed at me and kept staring at me for a minute or two. All the time he was staring at me, his finger kept moving. I called the police a few minutes ago and they told me I will have to go down to the police station and give a statement tomorrow. I'm sure they will catch him. I saw his face very clearly. What do you think the murderer was waving his finger at?"
Answer: The murderer was counting the windows to see which floor the old woman was on. He is coming to kill her.
My name is Andy, and I will tell you a murderous tale. On Friday, a murder took place at 4:21 a.m. The morning was calm with light rain. The body of Samuel was found in the dining room, however the murder happened in the kitchen. When the police arrived they could not find out the cause of death. An autopsy was performed and ruled a natural death. Samuel was however poisoned by arsenic, an undetectable poison. His wife, 5'3 who leaves every night for work until 6 a.m, says she is sure that it was a suicide or suspects the butler. The butler happens to leave at 4 a.m everyday and returns at 6 p.m. The butler suspects the wife because she found pictures of her husband and another woman in her car. Who murdered the husband?
Answer: The narrator, Andy. Both the wife and the butler suspect each other and have an alibi. Only Andy knows the name of the undetectable poison that killed Samuel.
At the scene of a heinous crime, five suspects, one of whom is the guilty party, are being interrogated by a detective. Each of the suspects gives one statement and it later transpires that just three of these statements are correct. Uncle Jack: "Uncle Jim committed the murder." Aunt Mary: "I did not do it." Cousin Stewart: "It was not Cousin Margaret." Uncle Jim: "Uncle Jack is lying when he says I did it." Cousin Margaret: "Aunt Mary is telling the truth." Who committed the murder?
Answer: Cousin Margaret. The statements of Aunty Mary, Uncle Jim and cousin Margaret are true.
A man murders his wife with a knife in their car. Nobody is around to see this. He throws her out of the car being careful not to leave any fingerprints on her body. Next he throws the knife off of a cliff into a gorge where it will never be found and he goes home. An hour later the police call him and tell him that his wife has been murdered and he needs to come to the scene of the crime immediately. As soon as he arrives, he is arrested. How did they know he did it?
Answer: He never asked the cop where the scene of the crime was, so they knew that he had murdered his wife.
A couple reported a robbery. The husband told the policeman, that he thinks that the burglar presumably entered the house by breaking through the window, pointing to the broken window glasses on the outside of the house. The policeman noticed that the inside of the house only a few tiny pieces of window glass particles scattered around near the broken window area and told him that it was not a burglary and no outsider has entered his house through that window. What made the policeman so sure?
Answer: When a window is broken from the outside by a thief, most of the glass will be found on the inside of the house, not on the outside of the house.
A guy was found dead in his study by his friend. The victim’s friend called the police. He told them that when he was walking by the victim’s place, he thought that he would pay him a visit. But as soon as he wiped the frost on the window to peep inside, he saw his body lying on the floor and therefore immediately called the police. The officer immediately arrested him for the murder of his friend. How did the officer know that he was lying?
Answer: Frost forms on the inside of the window, not the outside. So Peter could not have wiped it off to discover Ben’s body.
A woman shoots her husband and then holds him underwater for 5 minutes. They then go out and enjoy a romantic dinner. How?
Jane was found in her house lying in the center of a pentagram. The police questioned three people they found in her recent calls. Jane’s brother: "I have called her in the morning. She was depressed because she had been fired." Jane’s Neighbor: "She borrowed a pretty sum of money from me and called to ask for more time." Jane’s Boss: "She didn’t show up to work for a few days. I have called her to ask if anything happened." Who is lying?
Answer: Jane’s brother is lying because he said that Jane was depressed because she had fired from work. but her boss said he hadn’t seen Jane in her office. So, the liar is Jane’s brother.
You intercepted this coded message sent by an enemy operative: YYURYYUBICURYY4ME. What message is he sending?
Answer: "Too wise you are, too wise you be, I see you are too wise for me."
Agents Yellow, Red, and Green each have a green badge, a yellow badge, and a red badge, but none of them has a badge color that matches their name. They met when called to a conference at headquarters. The Agent with the Green badge said “I have a license to kill!” to which Agent Red replied sarcastically: “What, time?” What color is each Agent’s badge?
Answer: Note that it’s the agent with the Green badge and not Agent Green talking to Agent Red. As the agent with the green badge has spoken to Agent Red, we know that Agent Red doesn’t have a green badge. We already know he doesn’t have a red badge. Therefore he has a yellow badge. The agent with the green badge cannot be Agent Red, nor can he be Agent Green, therefore he is Agent Yellow. So Agent Yellow has a Green badge, and Agent Red has a yellow badge, meaning Agent Green must have a red badge.
A lawyer argued for $1,000,000 damages based on the following claim: His client went to an art museum, where he saw a painting of Marie Antoinette on a guillotine. He fell asleep and dreamed of the painting. At the museum’s closing time, a guard tapped him on the neck just as he dreamed of the guillotine beheading Marie Antoinette. The tap provoked immediate cardiac arrest and a fatal heart attack immediately following because he associated the tap with the guillotine blade. The judge dismissed the case. Why?
Answer: If the client died in his sleep, there would be no way of knowing what he was dreaming.
The second apparition in "Macbeth", the bloody child, recommends 'Be bloody, bold and resolute, laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.' How was the Thane of Fife able to kill Macbeth in the light of this prophecy?
One winter day, there was a man standing in the middle of someone’s front yard. The person stayed there for several weeks without moving and the owner of the yard didn’t mind. Eventually the man left. Who was he?
A man is found murdered on a Sunday morning. His wife calls the police, who question the wife and the staff, and are given the following alibis. The wife says she was sleeping. The butler said he was cleaning the closet. The gardener was declared he was picking vegetables. The maid explained she was getting the mail. The cook said she was preparing breakfast. Immediately, the police arrest the murdered. Who did it and how did the police know?
A couple went on for a climbing trip. When only the husband returned from the vacation, he said that his wife slipped off a cliff while climbing and died. On investigating, the local sheriff arrested him saying, “Your travel agent called. The information we received makes us aware you murdered your wife.” How did the agent deduce it was a murder?
Answer: The man bought only one-way ticket for his wife whereas he bought two-way ticket for himself. Therefore, he was sure that he will be returning alone.
A renowned chemist is found dead in his lab. There is no clear evidence except a piece of paper lying by the body. The paper is blank other than the name of five elements scrawled across it hastily: nickel, carbon, oxygen, lanthanum, sulfur. The guard reported that three people visited the chemist that day – his sister, Laura; his colleague, Nicolas; and his wife, Tessa. The criminal was arrested immediately. Who was it?
Answer: The list of chemicals was a clue; their abbreviations spell out the murderer’s name, Ni-C-O-La-S.
A crime has been committed on Main Street. The main suspect is a man named Simon Bates. It was said that a man had been walking along the pathway when he was suddenly shot in the stomach. The suspect had brown hair, blue eyes, and wore a baggy Armani just like Simon Bates’. Simon was asked to tell the story right from the beginning. “Well,” said Simon, “I was just hanging around the park when I saw this man walking along the pathway. Suddenly, a guy came up from behind him and shot him! I ran home as fast as I could. The policemen asked him to give a description of the murderer. “He had a red mustache, red hair, and a baggy Armani suit on.” “I think this man is telling a lie,” said one of the policemen. How did he know?
Answer: How can the murderer shoot him in the stomach if he came up behind the man?
A man is stranded on forest-covered island. One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process. There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off. How can the man survive the fire without any buckets or any other means to put out the fire?
Answer: The man picks up a piece of wood and lights it from the fire on the west end of the island. He runs to the east end of the island and starts a new fire. The wind will cause that fire to burn out the eastern end and he can then shelter in the burnt area.
Anna goes to her friend Mara’s house, on a wintry evening only to find her dead. When the police learn about the incident, they question Anna about how she found out. Anna says that she knocked on the door and rang the bell repeatedly. Since the light was on in one of the rooms, Anna knew Mara must be home and decided to look through the window. The windows were frozen, so she breathed on the iced glass, and that’s when she noticed Mara’s body on the floor. The police suspect Anna is the murderer. Why?
Answer: Anna could not have possibly gotten a clear view of the room from outside, as both sides of the glass would be frozen, so she could not have seen inside.
Once there was an evil wizard. He took three women from their homes and turned them into rose bushes that looked exactly alike and put them in his garden. One of the women had a husband and children and begged the wizard to let her see them. He agreed. At night he brought the woman to her house. In the morning he came and took her home. The husband decided to go rescue her. So, he snuck into the wizard’s garden early in the morning. He stared long and hard at the three identical rose bushes trying to figure out which could be his wife. Suddenly he knew the answer and he took his wife home. How did he know which rose bush was his wife?
Answer: The wizard brought the rosebush that was his wife to her home at night and returned her to the garden in the morning. Therefore, she was the only plant without dew.
A man invited his friend for dinner, and they both had a gala over mashed potatoes and chicken nuggets. For dessert, he cut an apple in half and gave one to the man, and he ate the same apple's other half. How did his friend die?
A man was writing a letter during a lightning storm in his cabin and died suddenly. How did he die?
A man was shot to death while in his car. There were no powder marks on his clothing which indicated that the gunman was outside the car. However, all the windows were up and the doors locked. After a close inspection was made, the only bullet holes discovered were on the man's body. How was he murdered?
An American, who had never been to any country other than the United States, travelled a long way to see a sight that very few people had seen. He was standing one day on solid ground when he saw the Great Wall of China with his own eyes. How come?
Answer: He was an astronaut standing on the moon - from where the Great Wall of China is visible.
Mark and Nancy have been married for five years. They have a little son named sam. On a Saturday afternoon, the couple went out to a restaurant to celebrate their fifth anniversary together. Her when they returned in the evening, they found their son dead. There were three other people in the house at the time of the murder. The babysitter said she was ironing sams school uniform for tomorrow. The maid said she was cleaning the corners of the house and the chef said he was chopping vegetables for dinner.
Answer: It can be the babysitter or the chef. Both of them are the culprit because if they went for dinner so why the chef is preparing dinner? And the other is the babysitter because she was ironing the shirt for school tomorrow but it was a Saturday so the next day is Sunday.
There was a girl who was extremely brave and always bragged about how brave she was. Many of her classmates got sick and tired of her boasting, so they decided to play a trick on her. One day, a group of boys and girls walked up to her and said, "If you're so brave, we all dare you to go to the old graveyard at the back of Ol' Man Jenkins mansion all alone at midnight. Stand in front of a tombstone, rumor has it that if you do, a bony hand will reach out and grab you, dragging you underground! You said you were brave so that shouldn't be so hard! To prove that you actually went, stick a knife in front of a tombstone so in the morning, we'll know you were there." Of course, the girl couldn't refuse and agreed to the dare. At midnight, she did just as her classmates asked and went to the graveyard with a pocketknife. The night was cold and windy, blowing her dress, chills went up her spine. She slowly walked up to a tombstone and quickly stuck the pocket knife into the ground. She was beginning to feel not as brave as she thought she was. Turning around as fast as she could, she just wanted to get out of there right away! But, there was a problem. Something was stopping her from moving. Was it a bony hand trying to drag her down? A shrill scream was heard. The next morning, the boys and girls went to the graveyard to see if the girl had been there. To their horror, she was there, dead.
1) What prevented the girl from escaping the graveyard?
2) How did the girl die?
Answer: 1) The girl was wearing a dress at the graveyard. It was dark, so she hadn't noticed where she stuck the knife in the ground. She accidently stuck it in her dress (and the girl did not get hurt by the knife in any way). That is what prevented her from running away. 2) Since the knife had her stuck, she was frighted that the rumor of the bony hand was true and had grabbed her, trying to pull her into the ground. She was truly terrified and died of fright.
"My wife was attacked by a burglar when I was on my way home from work. She stabbed him with a butcher knife and killed him. The police say it was an obvious case of self-defense. When I went to pick her up from the police station, she said: "When I heard the doorbell I thought it was you, but then a masked man jumped me as soon as I opened the door!" "You must have been so scared" I said, "But you're safe now." I hugged her tightly. How did she kill the burglar so fast when he attacked her at the door?"
Answer: His wife came to the door with a butcher knife because she thought her husband was coming home. She was planning to kill the husband.
A man told a story about how he was awarded a medal for bravery during World War 1. Why is this a lie?
Answer: They didn’t know there was going to be a World War 2 at the time, so they wouldn’t have said World War 1.
There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
Other passengers weren't mentioned but likely existed. Thus, the men made sparks by rubbing-together two Girl Scouts. I learned that from Homer & Jethro.
Mr. Richard was very rich. He lived in a luxurious house with his young wife and servants. In late Autumn, the police received a call from his maid. She found him stabbed in the bedroom. The detective arrived at the crime scene. He determined that there were 3 people in the house at the time of the murder. The Cook said: "I was preparing dinner." The maid said: "I was cleaning the dining room after lunch that Mr. Elliot and his wife had." The wife said: "I was swimming in the pool after lunch." The detective realized who stabbed Mr. Richard. Who is the killer?
Answer: The killer is wife because she could not swim in the pool in late Autumn, as it was already drained.
All drivers of public transport went on strike and life in the city stopped. In one of the schools, the children found their teacher Mrs. Jennifer dead. Mrs. Jennifer’s son went to the same school. All children were jealous of him, because his mother always gave him excellent grades. The detective arrived at the crime scene to interrogate all of Mrs. Jennifer’s students. Mike: "I was in the cafeteria." Jude: "I was saying goodbye to my parents in the schoolyard." Mary: "I went to the bathroom." Alex: "I was on my way to school on the bus." Anna: "I was in the schoolyard playing with my bear." Who killed Mrs. Jennifer?
There was an earthquake in Greenview. After that, the police received a call. A lady said: "My husband is dead! He got crushed by a wardrobe during an earthquake! please come fast." The police reach her house and investigate well. The Lady says: "When the quake hit, I was in the kitchen, and he was sleeping here. We had stayed at home because there was an earthquake warning yesterday. The wardrobe fell on him. He didn’t even get a chance to scream. I immediately called you!" The Police say: "I think this is not an accident." Why did he decide that?
Answer: Because she already knew about the earthquake, so she cut off the legs of the wardrobe before that. You can see the saw hidden under the bed.
A detective who was mere days away from cracking an international oil smuggling ring has suddenly gone missing. While inspecting his last-known location, officers find a note: 710 57735 34 5508 51 7718. Currently, there are 3 suspects: Bill, John, and Todd. Can you break the detective’s code and find the criminal’s name?
Answer: The suspect was Bill. “Bill is boss. He sells oil” will be the message if you read it upside down.
Edward thought he had committed the perfect crime. He broke into a woman’s house, strangled her in her bed, and staged the scene to look like an interrupted burglary. He ransacked the house, scattered the woman’s possessions everywhere, and then smashed the patio door glass from the outside to stage a point of entry. Finally, he rigged the alarm and left to join his friends for a game of golf to establish an alibi. Two hours later, while Edward was still walking the links, the alarm at the woman’s house was triggered, and the police were alerted. When they arrived at the house, they found the scene just as Edward had staged it. There were no other people present, such as relatives or staff, and no animals that could have set off the alarm, which appeared to be functioning normally. They concluded that the woman was indeed slain during a botched burglary. One detective was suspicious of Edward, who was the woman’s known enemy, but she couldn’t figure out how he had rigged the alarm to go off hours after he left. How did he do it?
Answer: Edward set a tray on the edge of a table. He placed heavy pans on one side and counterbalanced them with blocks of ice on the other. When the ice eventually melted after several hours, the weight of the pans sent the tray crashing to the floor, tripping the alarm. The police had initially dismissed the pans, tray, and puddle of water as simply more clutter from the ransacking.
Molly was preparing the thanksgiving feast in her kitchen. An hour later, her friend found Molly dead. She immediately called the police. The officer identified three suspects: Emily Molly’s friend, Jason Molly’s boyfriend and Adam Molly’s Neighbor. The police also discovered that Molly had left three clues: a shoe, a slipper, and a glove to help identify the killer. The officer asked the suspects to put down what they were doing at the time of the murder. Soon the police found out who did it. Who is the killer?
Answer: The killer is Adam because there were the left shoe, glove, and slipper. Mary tried to show that the killer was left-handed.
Chris came back from work a bit earlier today! He was excited to see his wife earlier! As soon as he entered his bedroom, he saw a man jumping over the balcony. He realized that his wife was cheating him. He shouts on that man “Bastard! I will kill you” and chased him. After going a little further, he sees three men sitting on a bench and gets confused as to which of these three, who is his wife’s lover. Who is his wife’s Lover?
Derek called the police late in the evening. "My wife is missing!" A police officer soon came to their house. Officer: "What happened?" Derek: "Today is our anniversary! I got up early and cooked pancakes to make a surprise for Kira. She got up in a bad mood and said that it was stupid to eat pancakes in this heat. We had a fight. Kira got dressed and left without even touching the food. I went to work. When I came back, Kira was not at home. I called all her relatives and friends but nobody knew where she was." The police officer immediately arrested Derek. Why?
Answer: Derek is lying. It’s a hot day if he had cooked those pancakes in the morning, the whipped cream would have melted.
Maria and Diego have a country villa. Every year they throw a wedding anniversary party. This year they invited many relatives and friends. Maria and Diego were very happy to see them. But in the evening there was an incident. Suddenly the light went out, and they heard a woman’s cry: "My necklace! It's been stolen!" Who stole it?
Answer: The man second from the right side stole her necklace. See his coat’s pocket.
Bella went on vacation. She came back a week later and found a big mess in her apartment. All her money was stolen. She called the police. The detective arrived at the crime scene immediately. Police: "Are you left-handed or right-handed?" Bella: "Right-handed." Police: "Who else knew you were on vacation?" Bella: "Only my colleagues!" The detective went to Anna’s office and questioned three suspects: Lydia: "I don’t know where she lives." Tom: "Ask my girlfriend, I spent all my free time with her." Ellie: "I was sick and stayed at home all the previous week!" Who broke into Bella’s house?
Answer: The dishes tell us that the thief is left-handed just like Tom.
A man is found dead in the desert. He is wearing only underwear and his right hand is clutching a single stalk of hay. There are no footprints or tire tracks nearby. What happened?
He was rock-climbing naked in the Mojave Desert and grabbed a dried grass stem (which looks like a stalk of hay) when he fell, probably frightened by a rattlesnake lounging in an unseen handhold. That almost happened to me. Naked, too. Yikes.
Famous columnist Max Worthington was found deceased at his manual typewriter, fatally stabbed in the back. His agent, Roger, found his body when he went to check on Max to see why he hadn't submitted his latest column. He then called the police, and the dispatcher sent Detective Sing to investigate. Detective Sing noticed that Max had apparently been writing his column when he was killed and that the last thing typed was "49t34 w5qgg3e j3," apparently a random string of numbers and letters created when his lifeless body slumped forward onto the typewriter. Detective Sing questioned the people closest to Worthington and found several suspects: Max's ex-wife, Marisa, had been feuding with him over alimony payments she felt entitled to, despite his offer of the mansion they had shared, plus a generous lump-sum payment; Max's current girlfriend, Jillian, was a beautiful young woman but was seemingly high maintenance and seemed to miss his money more than him; and Max's brother, Gerald, was happy his brother was dead, as Max had stolen Marisa away from him, and Gerald was intent on winning her back. Detective Sing concluded his investigation and quickly made an arrest. Who did he take into custody?
Answer: Max's agent, Roger, was arrested. Detective Sing had looked at Max's last written message again and discovered that the columnist had typed out the identity of his murderer, but his fingers had been one line up on the keys from where they should have been. Instead of writing "Roger stabbed me," he had written "49t34 w5qgg3e j3."
Sean Donovin was found deceased in his hotel room bed at 3:15 PM on January 4 by the hotel maid. There were no apparent signs of foul play, and a cryptic note was left behind, so police initially assumed that Sean had taken his own life. However, a detective was called in just to be safe, and he immediately suspected foul play. Sean was a young man in his 20s, was engaged to be married, and was a successful businessman who also taught Sunday school. On the surface, he seemingly had no reason to commit such an act. Since Sean passed in his hotel room and there was no sign of forced entry, the detective theorized that if he had been slain, it had to be one of the three people closest to him, as he didn't trust people easily. The three people closest to him were his sister, Hannah, who often assisted him with teaching Sunday school; his brother, John, who ran a small, semi-successful business; and, Sean's fiancee, Jenna. Finding no obvious motive among the three, the detective held off on declaring Sean's end a suicide until after the medical examiner performed an autopsy. Sean had apparently perished from a lethal injection that killed him instantly. He was found approximately 11 hours after he passed. Still confounded by the evidence, the detective then began scouring the note for clues. It read: "My loved ones, Jenna, Sis, John, I would just like to tell you how sorry I am. Blame God for why I am to die today. Blame Him. Seek Him if you want to know why I did leave you. Do not mourn my death. Please move on. Goodbye, Sean." The detective found it strange that a seemingly pious and devout man would take his own life and then blaspheme against God, but the handwriting was verified to be Sean's. After some thought, the detective deduced that Sean had been slain and arrested one of the three suspects. How did he know this, and who was the culprit?
Answer: The detective arrested Sean's brother, John. He deduced that Sean had suspected his brother of being jealous of him and his business and written the note to point the authorities in his brother's direction in case anything happened to him. The first clue was the passage, "Seek Him if you want to know why I did leave you," which pointed the detective towards the Bible. He then surmised that "4:10" might actually be referring to a specific Bible passage and not a time, and that "AM" might be referring to the Old Testament. He then needed to know which book of the Bible to check and deduced that "Jenna, Sis" might refer to the book of Genesis. When he checked the passage, he found that it was the story of the very first murder, in which Cain killed his brother Abel out of jealousy.
John Aiers, a little person, was found dead in his living room from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, the pistol still clutched in his lifeless hand. There was no sign of a struggle and no indication of foul play - only the small bullet hole below his left breast and a small bloodstain around the wound. The bullet had gone clear through his body, through the couch he was sitting on, and had lodged in the wall behind him. A junior detective surmised from the scene that Aiers had taken his own life, bolstered by the man's massive amount of financial debt and history of depression. However, the senior detective stated that he knew Aiers had been murdered the second he laid eyes on his body. What did he notice that the junior detective had not?
One snowy night, Sherlock Holmes was in his house sitting by a fire. All of a sudden a snowball came crashing through his window, breaking it. Holmes got up and looked out the window just in time to see three neighborhood kids who were brothers running around a corner. Their names were John Crimson, Mark Crimson, and Paul Crimson. The next day Holmes got a note on his door that read “? Crimson. He broke your window.” Which of the three Crimson brothers should Sherlock Holmes question about the incident?
Answer: He should question Mark Crimson. “?” = question MARK, so the note on the door reads “Question Mark Crimson. He broke your window.”
Anderson, Biggs, and Carpenter were staying together at a place by the seaside. One day they went out in a boat and were a mile at sea when a rifle was fired on shore in their direction. It seems that Anderson only heard the report of the gun, Biggs only saw the smoke, and Carpenter merely saw the bullet strike the water near them. Which of them first knew of the discharge of the rifle?
Answer: Biggs, who saw the smoke, would be first; Carpenter, who saw the bullet strike the water, would be second; and Anderson, who heard the report, would be last of all.
Melanie lived with her siblings in a small town. One afternoon, Melanie was found dead in the living room. When the police questioned her siblings, they had both been in the pool from the morning and hadn’t killed her. But the police arrested Melanie’s siblings for her murder. Why?
Answer: The police checked their hands and found that their hands weren’t wrinkled. If they had been in the pool for a long time their hands would have been wrinkled.
It’s 6 pm and George Manly was murdered. Yet no murderer was found. But the cops got witnesses. There were 5 other people in the house at the time of George’s murder. The chef said he was cooking dinner. The gardener said she was gardening. The auntie said she was playing chess with her brother. The wife said she was watching TV. And the grandfather said he was in his wheelchair. So who murdered George Manly?
Answer: The aunt killed George Manly. There were 5 people in the house besides George – The chef, gardener, auntie, wife, and grandfather. But the aunt said that she was playing chess with her brother, which makes it 6 people. The aunt was lying.
On the first day of the school a young girl was found murdered. Police suspect four male teachers and question them. They were asked what they were doing at 8:00 am. Mr. Walter: "I was driving to school and I was late." Mr. Thomas: "I was checking English exam papers." Mr. Benjamin: "I was reading the newspaper." Mr. Calvin: "I was with my wife in my office." The police arrested the killer. How did the police find the murderer?
Answer: Mr.Thomas as he cannot be checking exam papers on the first day of school.
A man owned a casino and invited some friends. It was a dark stormy night, and they all placed their money on the table right before the lights went out. When the lights came back on, the money was gone. The owner put a rooster in an old rusty tea kettle. He told everyone to get in line and touch the kettle after he turned the lights off, and the rooster will crow when the robber touched it. After everyone touched it, the rooster didn't crow, so the man told everyone to hold out their hands. After examining all the hands, he pointed out who the robber was. How did he know who stole the money?
Answer: Because the tea kettle was rusty, whoever touched it would have rust on their hands. The robber didn't touch the kettle, therefore he was the only one whose hands weren't rusty.
A rich and handsome man named James Leonard was murdered on a Sunday afternoon. At the time of the murder there was: the maid, the cook, the butler, the gardener and the wife. They gave the following statements. Maid: "I was fixing the table." Cook: "I was cooking breakfast." Butler: "I was polishing the silverware and the dishes." Gardener: "I was planting tomato seeds." Wife: "I was reading a book." Who did it?
Answer: The cook did it. You don't cook breakfast in the afternoon.
It is a stormy, snowy day. There is a man dead inside a shack. There are no windows and the only door is locked from inside. There is no way in or out. The man has a stab wound. There is a puddle of water and blood next to him. How did he die?
An adventurer finds a chest of treasure guarded by a pirate who offers him a red key, a blue key, and a gold key. Only one of them can open the treasure chest, and he only has one chance to choose the right key. Behind the pirate, he sees a ciper reading ‘TGK HOE ELY DEN.’ Which key does he choose?
Answer: The gold key - rearrange the letters in the cipher, and it says ‘The golden key’.
A Japanese ship was en route to the open sea. The captain went for a shower removing his ring and keeping it on the table. When he returned, he found it had gone missing. The captain immediately called the three suspected crew members and asked each one where they were and what were they doing in the last 15 minutes. The cook said, “I was in fridge room getting meat for cooking.” The Engineer , “I was working on generator engine.” The seaman said, “I was on the mast correcting the flag which was upside down by mistake.” The radio officer said, “I was messaging to a company about the arrival.” The navigation officer said, “I was sleeping in my cabin.” The captain immediately caught the thief. How?
Answer: It’s Japanese ship so it has a Japenese flag and Japanese flag is the same upside down.
A man is found splattered on the ground outside his work building where he had an office on the 10th floor. The detective is asking the CEO of the company about it on the top floor of the building (24th). The CEO says, "He was constantly talking about suicide. We should have taken him more seriously. He left me this suicide note." The detective ignores the CEO holding out the suicide note. He pulls out a coin and says, "Heads or tails?" CEO is confused but the detective doesn't flinch so he finally says, "Ok... tails." The detective flips the coin out the window and watches it all the way to the ground below. Then he looks at the CEO and says, "Sorry it was heads. This is a murder, not a suicide." Why does he think that?
Answer: The coin landed closer to the building than the body. It's strong evidence that the man was forcefully ejected from the top floor window. Suicide jumpers do not typically leap outward or take running starts unless it was in the heat of a moment of pure desperation, which also means he probably would not take the elevator all the way up to the big Boss office before doing so, and the CEO also didn't mention such which you would think he certainly would. Thus the most likely explanation is that he was called up to the ceo office and then either pushed or thrown out the window. This added to the fact that the CEO is holding the suicide note claiming the man left it for him, when people normally just say a note was left or found. It's not an open and shut case, but the detective had enough to suspect homicide.
oh man, these are pretty bad. They need some refinement; they're too vague. I got to #9 and stopped because I realized that they were just going to get worse. Example: "A girl and a boy were out one night. They were in the woods, and they saw 3 men hunting. Next day the girl and boy were found dead. Why is this?" Well, no where did it say it was halloween so there was SOOO many possible answers. Why did they find them the next morning? if it was hunters, it would have been immediate.
Lots of repeated riddles and riddles that would require a visual to solve. Some were good, but that's the only upside. 75 minutes of my life wasted.
Yayyyyy for these having the answers in the comments instead of in the post. Well done, BP.
oh man, these are pretty bad. They need some refinement; they're too vague. I got to #9 and stopped because I realized that they were just going to get worse. Example: "A girl and a boy were out one night. They were in the woods, and they saw 3 men hunting. Next day the girl and boy were found dead. Why is this?" Well, no where did it say it was halloween so there was SOOO many possible answers. Why did they find them the next morning? if it was hunters, it would have been immediate.
Lots of repeated riddles and riddles that would require a visual to solve. Some were good, but that's the only upside. 75 minutes of my life wasted.
Yayyyyy for these having the answers in the comments instead of in the post. Well done, BP.
