Who Knows?
One winter morning, Mr Wilson found a man standing in the middle of the front yard. The man stayed in the yard for several weeks, but Mr Wilson didn’t mind. Eventually, the man disappeared. Who was he?
A snowman
A policeman found a dead man in the desert. He could only trace the tracks on the sand. Whom should the police look for?
A man in a wheelchair.
A woman was murdered on Orient Street. It was said that the woman was walking on the pathway when she was suddenly shot in the face. A man named Dean Miller claimed to have witnessed the murder. According to the police, the killer had black hair, brown eyes and wore a baggy suit. The detective asked Dean to tell him what he saw on that day.
Dean said, “ I was walking in the park when the killer suddenly appeared behind the woman and shot her.” The detective then asked Dean to describe the killer. Dean said, “He had blonde hair, blue eyes and wore a baggy suit.” The detective knew Dean was lying. How?
The killer couldn’t have shot the woman in the face if he came up from behind her.
A detective told his wife he’d be home at 8:30 and came home at 8:30. Then why was the detective’s wife angry with him?
He said he’d be home at 8:30 P.M and came home at 8:30 A.M
A woman was found hanging in the bedroom 10 feet above the floor. There was nothing else noticeable in the room besides a big puddle of water on the floor. Cops couldn’t see anything that the woman would use to climb on to, for hanging herself. How did she commit suicide?
The woman stood on a huge block of ice. She then placed the noose on her neck. She died once the ice melted. In the end, just the puddle of water remained.
Every single person died in a plane crash. However, who survived?
Married couples
There were three men swimming in the ocean. When an ocean guard called them to stay away from water due to high tides. He noticed that only two men’s hair was wet. What about the third man?
The third man was bald.
A man crossed the border every day on a motorbike with two bags of sand. The police suspected that he was smuggling illegal goods into the country. However, the detective couldn’t find anything when he checked the bags. Yet, the man was arrested. Why?
The man was smuggling stolen motorbikes every day
A famous killer told the police that he plans to kill someone in the one place you can’t see the Eiffel Tower from in Paris. Where did the police catch him?
Inside the Eiffel Tower
A man is found dead one Sunday morning. He got killed while his wife was asleep. The wife told the cops all that she saw: the cook was busy preparing breakfast, her maid was cleaning, and the butler was getting the mail. Who is responsible and why?
The wife, as she was sleeping, otherwise she wouldn’t know all the other details.
The woman watched a guy being murdered. She cries but does nothing to save him. Why?
She is watching a TV series
Why did a woman call the police over a man who knocked on her door and apologized, claiming that he thought the room was his?
If it were his room, he wouldn’t have knocked.
Jane’s family lived in a large circular mansion. One morning, Jane found jam stains on the carpet in the living room. She called her employees and questioned them.
Which one of them is lying?
The maid (Jane lives in a circular mansion, so there are no corners)
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?
This woman was blind and reading braille
Bianca called the police to report that her vintage ring was stolen. When the police reached the crime scene, they found that the window was broken with shattered glass all over the side of the house. It was a total mess and there were dirty footprints on the carpet. But there were no other signs of a break-in. The police arrested Bianca for fraud, why?
The police found the shattered glass from the broken window outside Bianca’s house. This meant that the glass was broken from the inside, so Bianca had most likely staged the break-in.
On the first day of school, a little girl was murdered. Cops suspected four male teachers and questioned them. They were asked what they were doing at 8:30 am.
Mr. Alex: I was driving to school, and I was late.
Mr. Garry: I was checking English exam papers.
Mr. Kevin: I was reading the newspaper.
Mr. Smith: I was with my wife in my office.
Who was the murderer the cops arrested?
Mr. Garry, as he couldn’t be checking exam papers on the first day of school.
A murderer is condemned to death unless he is able to successfully survive one of 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. He chose and survived; what was his choice?
The third one since the lions had already died of starvation
Melanie lived with her two siblings in a small town. One afternoon, Melanie was found dead in the living room. After the police pulled them by their hands out of the pool her siblings were in to question them, they said that they both had been in the pool since the morning, so they hadn’t killed her. But the police arrested Melanie’s siblings for her murder. Why?
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.
A woman shot her husband, then held him underwater for about five minutes. Both of them go out and eat a wonderful dinner together in a while. How is this possible?
The woman shot her husband using a camera and later developed the photo
A woman who came back from a hiking trip announced that her husband died by accidentally falling off the cliff. The detective identified that the woman was lying after speaking to the travel agent about the couple's travel plans and purchases. How did the detective find that the woman was lying?
The woman had booked only a one-way ticket for her husband.
A woman was found dead at the bottom of a 5-story building. There is a suicide note which says she committed suicide by jumping from a window on one of the floors of the building. When the detective arrived, he went to the first floor, opened the window and tossed a coin towards the floor. He repeats this on all the floors of the building.
He comes down and tells the police that the woman was murdered. How does the detective know?
The windows were all closed (he had to open the windows on every floor to toss the coin)
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. All the victims chose at random, yet still every one of the victims dies. How?
The water is poisoned
John went to a cafe and asked for a cup of tea. He was served the tea but sent it back because there was a fly in the cup. He was served a new cup of tea, but he realized it was the same cup of tea and not a fresh one. He got angry and shouted at the waiter. How did John realize that it wasn’t a fresh cup of tea?
He had added sugar to the first cup. When he tasted the second cup of tea, it tasted sweet. If it was a fresh cup of tea, it would’ve tasted bitter. The waiter had served John the same cup of tea thinking he wouldn’t realize it.
There were piles of evidence that a woman killed her husband, yet her sister was arrested. Why?
They were identical twins
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?
If the man shot himself while he was recording, he wouldn't have been able to rewind the cassette tape so that the play button worked immediately