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Dave is put in a cell with a dirt floor and only one window. The window is too high for him to reach. The only thing in the cell is a shovel. He won't be able to get any food or water and only has two days to escape or he'll die. Dave can't dig a tunnel because it will take him much longer than two days to do it. How will Dave escape from the cell?
Dave has to use the shovel to create a pile of dirt under the window so he can climb up onto it and escape from the cell.
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.
He never asked the cop where the scene of the crime was so they knew that he had murdered his wife.
A young woman is attending her mother's funeral. While there, she meets a man she has never seen before and falls in love immediately. After the funeral she tries to find him but cannot. Several days later she kills her sister. Why does she kill her sister?
She killed her sister hoping to see this man at her sisters funeral.
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?
Mr. Thomas as he cannot be checking exam papers on the first day of school.
A dead body is found at the bottom of a multistory building. Seeing the position of the body, it is evident that the person jumped from one of the floors, committing suicide. A homicide detective is called to look after the case. He goes to the first floor and walks in the room facing the direction in which the body was found. He opens the window in that direction and flips a coin towards the floor. Then he goes to the second floor and repeats the process. He keeps on doing this until he reaches the last floor. Then, when he climbs down he tells the team that it is a murder not suicide. How did he come to know that it was a murder?
None of the windows were left open. If the person jumped, who closed the window?
A man was found dead with a cassette recorder in one hand and a gun in the other. When the police came in, they immediately pressed the play button on the cassette. He said "I have nothing else to live for. I can't go on," then 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?
If the man shot himself while he was recording, how did he rewind the cassette tape?
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 was cleaning the closet, the gardener was picking vegetables, the maid was getting the mail, and the cook was preparing breakfast. Immediately, the police arrest the murdered. Who did it and how did the police know?
The maid. There is no mail on Sundays.
Dave and Brad, two popular politicians, met at a club to discuss the overthrow of their party leader. They each ordered a vodka on the rocks. Brad downed his and ordered another. He then drank his second in a gulp and decided to wait before he ordered a third. Meanwhile, Dave, who was sipping his drink, suddenly fell forward dead. Both men were setup for an assassination. Why did Dave die and Brad live?
Both Dave and Brad were given drinks with poisoned ice cubes. Brad drank his drinks so quickly that the ice didn't have time to melt and release the poison.
A man is found hanging in a room 30 feet off the ground. There is nothing else in the room except for a large puddle of water on the ground. The police can't see any way the man could have climbed the walls to get to where he is hanging. How did this man hang himself?
He stood on a tall 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 ground.
A crime has been committed at Freemont Street. The main suspect is a man named Sean Baker. 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 suit just like Sean Baker's. Sean was asked to tell the story right from the beginning. "Well," said Sean, "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?
How can the murderer shoot him in the stomach if he came up behind the man?
A couple went on for a climbing trip. But only the husband returned from the vacation and said that his wife slipped off while climbing and died. On investigating, the local sheriff arrested him saying, 'Your travel agent called. You murdered your wife.' The man did not inform anyone about the trip. Then how did the agent was so sure that it is a murder?
The man bought only one way ticket for his wife whereas he bought two way ticket for himself. It means that he was sure that he will be returning alone.
Four men were fishing in a boat on the lake. The boat turned over and all four men sank to the bottom of the lake. And yet, not one single man got wet. How is this possible?
All of the men were married.
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 run 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.”
He should "Question Mark" Crimson
John strolled into his house after a rainy walk He was about to hang up his coat when he heard his wife say: “No Bryan! Don’t do it!” There was a gunshot and his wife, Gloria, was killed There was a police officer, a doctor, and a lawyer standing next to her. John knew that the police officer did it. How did he know?
The police officer was a man while the doctor and lawyer were women. As Bryan is a man’s name, it had to be the police officer.
4 friends regularly visited the steam room together at their local gym. They always brought something with them. Adam, a musician, took his waterproof MP3 player with him to listen to music. Lawrence, a banker, took a thermos to drink out of as he wanted to keep himself hydrated. Jack and Ryan were lawyers and took their document readers in with them. One fateful day, Jack was found dead. He was killed by a sharp object. The detectives came immediately and conducted an investigation. They found no murder weapon! How could this have happened?
Jack was killed by Lawrence who brought an ice shard in his thermos. The ice shard murder weapon had melted away by the time the cops arrived
Robbie sat in his favourite coffee shop and found a fly in his soy latte. He asked the waitress politely to replace his coffee with a new fly-free one. After Robbie received the new latte and had taken a sip – he immediately realized it was the same cup of coffee he had in the first place, and was very angry at the waitress. Robbie realized that it was the same cup of coffee that he had in the first place. How did he know the waitress had given him the same cup back without the fly?
Robbie had a big sweet tooth, and loves a bit of sugar in his soy latte. When tasting “The second” latte he realized that it was sweet already.
Paul, a keen marathon runner, was alone at home and heard something fall in parent’s bedroom. He went to investigate and found that his mum’s favourite ornament was broken on the floor. Out of the corner of his eye, Paul saw someone run out of the room. Paul immediately pursued the stranger down the street. He tried to catch up with the stranger. But in the end, he cramped up because the stranger was too quick and Paul couldn’t keep up. Paul told this story to his mum but she refused to call the police to investigate the case. His mum asked Paul to stop lying and admit that it was indeed him that had broken her favourite ornament. Who is right? Paul or his Mum?
Paul’s mum was right. She knew that Paul was an amazing runner and that he wouldn’t have cramped up after such a short time. She knew Paul was lying as he didn’t want to confess about breaking her favourite ornament.
Mr. Bond was found dead in his room after he had gone to sleep for the night. The room had no windows and the door was locked. The only 4 people who had a key to the room were questioned. Dorothy the maid: “I came to wake up Mr. Bond; I opened the door and I screamed as I saw him dead on the floor” Tom the butler: “When I heard what happened, I quickly ran into the room, flicked the light switch to turn it on, and saw Mr. Bond with a knife sticking out of his neck.” Laticia the governess: “I rushed up alongside Tom the butler; and when he turned on the light, the room was all bloody with Mr. Bond on the floor.” Jack the chef: “I was prepping breakfast and didn’t see anything or hear anything as I was pumping tunes!” Who killed Mr. Bond?
It was Dorothy the maid. If Mr Bond had been sleeping at night, and the room was dark, then she wouldn’t have been able to see Mr. Bond lying there — unless she murdered him!
A man has been brutally shot in the front of his car. The police forensic team arrived and noticed there were no traces of gunpowder on any of his clothes. That meant that the murderer wasn’t inside the car while committing the crime. There were also no bullet holes in the car. And, all the doors and windows were closed. How was the man shot in the car?
The man was in a convertible car. First, the murderer shot him when the roof was down, and then put the roof up after the man was dead.
Amy goes to her friend, Maria’s house, on a wintry evening only to find her dead. When the police learn about the incident, they question Amy how she found out. Amy says that she knocked on the door and rang the bell repeatedly. Since the light was on in one of the rooms, Amy knew Maria 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 Maria’s body on the floor. The police suspect Amy is the murderer. Are they correct?
The police are correct because Amy breathed on the wrong side of the glass to be able to clear the ice.
Raul, a budding chemist, was murdered in his own lab. The detective arrived at the crime scene, and found a piece of paper on the floor. On the piece of paper, the detective could just about make out the names of chemical substances on the piece of paper. They were: Nickel; Carbon; Oxygen; Lanthanum And Sulphur. When looking through Raul’s calendar diary, the detective could only see that three people came to his lab that day: his friend Nicolas, his wife Celine, and his sister Dorothy. The detective immediately knew who the murderer was after looking at the piece of paper again. How did the detective know who it was?
There was a very obvious clue on the piece of paper. If you combine the abbreviations of the chemical substances. The detective had the periodic table staring straight at him. The Chemical Symbols for each of the chemicals on the piece of paper, spelled the name ‘Ni – C – O – La – S’
A Japanese ship was leaving the port and on its way to open sea. The captain went to go oil some parts of the ship and took his ring off so it wouldn’t get damaged. He left it on the table next to his bunk. When he returned, it was missing. He had suspected three crew members could be guilty and asked them what they had been doing for the ten minutes that he had been gone. The cook said, “I was in the kitchen preparing tonight’s dinner.” The engineer said, “I was working in the engine room making sure everything was running smoothly.” The seaman said, “I was on the mast correcting the flag because someone had attached it upside down by mistake.” The captain immediately knew who it was. How?
It was clearly the seaman. It was a Japanese ship and a Japanese flag is white with a single red dot in the middle. It can’t be hung upside down.
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?
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.
One morning, a little child called Cathy got trapped in a big stately mansion in the United Kingdom. There were 4 doors that Cathy could choose from, but only one led to freedom. The doors opened up to the following: Door 1: A floor of the hottest Lava known to humans, that would immediately melt anyone that stepped in there Door 2: A room of deadly assassins waiting to pounce on anyone that walks in Door 3: The coldest room in the world, at -150 degrees. No one can survive longer than 10 seconds! Door 4: A police officer that would shoot any man or woman indiscriminately. Which door should Cathy choose?
Door 4 - The cops would shoot any man or woman, but Cathy isn’t an adult – she’s a little child.
James the detective works out of his downtown office in NYC overlooking the Empire State Building. James had seen enough of the Empire State Building looking down on him. So every day, James had lunch in the one place where he didn’t have to look straight at the Empire State Building. Where did James eat?
James, the clever Detective, ate in the restaurant that was located at the base of the Empire State Building.