A person is found murdered in his office. When police investigate the crime scene, they find a calendar on which the victim has written a few numbers with his blood. The numbers are 4, 11, 11 and 4.
There are four suspects of the murder, Paul, Nina, Anna and Lee.
Can you find out who is the murderer?
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Anna is the killer. The numbers correspond to months of the year. The first letter of each month represents a letters in Anna's name.
4 = April
11 = November
11 = November
4 = April
Two men with backpacks on are stranded in a desert. One of them has an open backpack and one of them has a closed backpack. The man with the closed backpack is dead.
Why is he dead?
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The backpacks were parachutes. The man with the closed backpack had a parachute that never opened.
A man is locked in a room with a serial killer. The killer says that he will allow the man to escape if he can beat him in the serial killer's favorite game. If the man loses, the serial killer will kill him.
The rules of the game are as follows:
1. Each man must take turns placing a coin on a perfectly round table.
2. The coins must lay flat.
3. The coins cannot overlap each other.
4. The coins cannot hang off the edge of the table at all.
5. The first man to run out of room to place a coin on the table loses.
The serial killer is very confident in his ability to win at this game, so he lets the man go first. What can the man do to guarantee that he wins the game?
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The man must first place a coin in the center of the table. He then must replicate every move the serial killer makes on the opposite side of the table. Eventually the serial killer will run out of places to place a coin and the man will win.
A man decides to go to sleep after he is exhausted from a long day of work. He turns off all the lights and goes to sleep. When he wakes up, he finds out that he has killed 217 sailors. He does not sleep-walk and has slept all night without waking up once. How is this possible?
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The man was a lighthouse operator.
You are walking the streets at night when you come across a clown. He tells you the following:
“If you tell the truth, I will strangle you.
If you tell a lie, I will chop off your head.”
How do you get out of this situation?
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You say "You will chop my head off." This way, the clown can't chop your head off because by doing so, he would make your statement true. That leaves him to strangle you, which makes your statement false, leaving you free to go.
A man was found dead out in a field of snow. The only tracks that were left were a set of footprints between two parallel lines. Who should the police be looking for?
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The police should look for a man in a wheelchair.
A man murders his wife with a knife in their car when nobody is around to see. He throws her body out of the car and is careful not to leave any fingerprints on her. He then throws the knife into the ocean where it will never be found and goes home. An hour later the police call him and tell him that his wife has been murdered and that he needs to come to the scene of the murder as soon as possible. When he arrives they arrest him.
How did they know he killed his wife?
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The police never mentioned where the crime scene was. The fact that the man knew exactly where to go proved that he was guilty.
A girl was attending her mother's funeral when she met a man that she did not know and had never seen before. After a brief conversation with the man about her family and the life that her mother lived, the girl realized that she had fallen in love with the man. They parted ways but never exchanged contact information. She looked all over for him but was unable to find him.
A few days later she killed her sister. Why did she do that?
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She killed her sister because she thought the man would be at her funeral too. If the man knew her mother, he likely knew her sister as well.
John Smith is suspected of a crime that occurred on Tuesday evening on Redmount Street. The crime took place at 6:37 pm. 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 suit, just like John Smith's.
John was asked to tell the story right from the beginning. “Well,” said John, “I was just hanging around the park when I saw this man walking along the pathway. Suddenly, another man 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.
John said, “He had a brown mustache, brown hair, and a baggy suit on.”
“I think this man is telling a lie,” said one of the policemen. How did he know?
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The police know the man was shot in the stomach, which means that John Smith was lying when he said the man came up behind him.
Two girls ate dinner together and both ordered iced tea. One girl drank her iced tea very quickly. She had finished five in the time it had taken the other to drink just one.
The girl who drank just one iced tea died while the other girl survived. All of the drinks that were served turned out to contain poison.
Why did the girl who only drank one iced tea die?
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The poison was in the ice. The girl who drank her iced tea quickly never gave the ice enough time to melt into her drink.
A dead body is found at the bottom of a twenty-five story building. It appears that the person jumped from one of the twenty-five floors to commit 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, 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 doing this until he has covered all twenty-five floors. Then, when he climbs down, he tells the team that it is a murder, not a suicide.
How does he know that it is a murder?
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At each floor, he did the same task of opening the window and flipping the coin. If it was a suicide, then at least one window would have been left open by the person who jumped off. The present situation only suggests that someone pushed him off and then closed the window.
Dan and Mary are brother and sister and go to the same elementary school. Like their father, James, they both have brown hair, blues eyes, and pale skin. Dan is 12 years old, and Mary is half his age. 13 years later, Dan goes on to have a baby boy with his wife, Emily. Due to the baby's striking similarities to his grandfather, they name him James. 24 years after Dan was 9, Mary has a child with her husband, Ben. They name the child Adam. Adam looks just like Dan; he has brown hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. 17 years after Mary and Ben have their child, Dan is murdered. The murderer has brown hair, blue eyes, pale skin, and is half Dan's age.
Who killed Dan?
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Dan's son, James killed him. 17 years after Mary and Ben had their child, Dan would be 50 and James would be 25 - half of Dan's age.
Shortly after the start of the New Year, an old man is found dead in his home. Police enter the home and find a bloodstain on the couch, a strand of hair on the counter, and a bullet casing on the kitchen floor. After inspecting the body and conducting a thorough forensics report, police determine this is a homicide case and that the man was killed between 3 pm and 4 pm. The man's home is in a small town in upstate New York, so police are able to immediately identify some possible suspects. The suspects include the wife of the old man, a local gardener, the mailman, the bartender from the local saloon, and the old man's neighbor. They begin the interview process and each suspect provides an alibi:
The wife says she was at the grocery store buying some eggs.
The gardener says he was planting his tomatoes in his garden.
The mailman was out delivering mail.
The bartender was serving his customers at the bar.
The neighbor was at the shooting range practicing his aim.
Police immediately identify the murderer. Who killed the old man?
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The gardener killed the man. Tomatoes don't grow in upstate New York in January.
A detective who was on the verge of cracking an international oil smuggling ring has suddenly gone missing. While inspecting his last known location, officers found a note:
710 57735 34 5508 51 7718
Currently, there are three suspects: Bill, John, and Todd.
Can you break the code and find the criminal's name?
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Flip the code upside down and reverse it and it reads "BILL IS BOSS HE SELLS OIL."
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?
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Who pressed stop on the recorder if the man was dead?