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Melissa was killed on a Sunday morning. Her roommates gave the following testimonials: Agnes was getting the mail, Angela was doing laundry, Maggie was cooking, Carl was planting in the garden. Who killed Melissa and how did the police know who to arrest?
Agnes killed Melissa as no mail is delivered on Sunday.
A girl, at the funeral of her mother, met a guy whom she did not know. The girl fell for the guy and wanted to contact him. She looks for him but couldn’t find him. A few days later she kills her sister. What did she do that?
She was hoping that he would come again to a funeral.
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?
A person in a wheelchair.
A prisoner was kept in a cell with a dirt floor and only one window positioned high. Except for a shovel, nothing else was there. He had just a few hours in his hand to escape from the cell. He managed to escape from the window. How?
Jack used the shovel to make a pile of dirt under the window, climb on it, and escape from his cell.
A man hanged through the ceiling in his ice factory. There was nothing except a small puddle of water in the room. No chair or a table was there to climb up. How did he manage to hang himself?
The man was standing on a giant ice block to commit suicide. So, the puddle of water was there.
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. Youve been hired to investigate who killed Sam. So who did it?
It can be the babysitter or the chef.
Explanation: 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.
Rita called the police to investigate the burglary at her home. Her precious jewels were missing. She told the police that the lock of the house was intact. Police scanned the crime scene. The house was in a total mess and the glass of the window was broken. Police concluded Rita had cooked up this story and arrested her for fraud. How?
The police were sure that Rita has lied to them because someone had broken the glass window from inside. If the window was broken from outside, little pieces of glass would be on the room’s floor. But Rita had broken it from inside, and glass pieces were outside.
Man killed his wife. He had legal rights to do so. People watched him but, no one could accuse him of his action. Why?
The man’s job was of an executioner, and his wife had received the death penalty so, he was doing his job.
A man walked in his house.
He was about to hang up his coat when he heard his wife say: "No Peter! Don't do it!"
There was a gunshot and the woman was killed.
There was a police officer, a doctor, and a lawyer standing next to her.
The woman's husband knew that the police officer did it.
How did the husband know?
The police officer was a man while the doctor and lawyer were women
A woman came back from her honeymoon and told everyone her husband had died by accidentally falling off a cliff. The detective figured out that she was lying when he spoke to the travel agent who had booked the tickets. How did he know she lied to him?
The woman bought only a one-way ticket for her husband whereas, She bought a two-way ticket for herself. It means that she was sure that she has to return alone.
Jack and Jill are lying on the floor inside the house, dead. They died from lack of water. There is shattered glass next to them. How did they die?
Jack and Jill are goldfish
: There are five people. One of them shot and killed one of the other five.
We know the following clues:
1. Dan ran in the NY City Marathon yesterday with one of the innocent men.
2. Mike consider being a farmer before he moved to the city.
3. Jeff is a top-notch computer consultant and wants to install Ben’s new computer next week.
4. The murderer had his leg amputated last month.
5. Ben met Jack for the first time six months ago.
6. Jack has been in seclusion since the crime.
7. Dan used to drink heavily.
8. Ben and Jeff built their last computers together.
9. The murderer is Jack’s brother. They grew up together in Seattle.
Jeff Killed Mike
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?
The king gave them all fake seeds and the little girl was the only honest child who didn’t switch seeds.
A man was found dead while on holiday in the UK. The suspects were Margret, Mason, Bill, Laura, and Alexa. On the calendar, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 were written in blood. How to decode the numbers to find the killer?
The numbers are those of the months whose first letters spell out ‘Mason’.
A dead female body lies at the bottom of a multistory building. It looks as though she committed suicide by jumping from one of the floors.
When the detective arrives, he goes to the first floor of the building, opens the closed window, and flips a coin towards the floor. He goes to the second floor and does the exact same thing. He continues to do this until he gets to the top floor of the building.
When he comes back down, he states that it was a murder and not a suicide. How does he know that?
She couldn’t have jumped from any of the floors because when the detective went to each floor, all of the windows were closed. Check out these riddles for adults to really give your brain a workout.