It’s the first day of the school year and a young girl was found murdered. There were only four possible people who might have done it.
Police interrogated the four, who happened to all be teachers, and asked them what they were doing in the morning at 8:00 am, which was the estimated Time of Death.
The four gave the following “alibis”:
1. Wayne: I was reading the newspaper.
2. Terry: I was checking chemistry papers.
3. Bridge: I had locked myself in my room, brokenhearted, as my wife had left me.
4. Cole: I was dropping my wife off at her office.
Who is the killer?
Terry is the murderer. The give away is that, it being the first day of the school year, there wouldn’t be any papers to check. So he had to be lying.
Two girls ate dinner together.
They both ordered iced tea.
One girl drank hers very quickly and had finished five in the time it took the other to drink just one.
The girl who drank just one died while the other survived.
All of the glasses had poison in them.
How did the girl who drank the most survive?
The poison was in the ice and never had a chance to melt in the glasses that were finished fastest. The ice had time to melt in the glass of the girl who drank her tea the slowest.
Mystery #2
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 back to the beginning?
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 with the following written on it:
710 57735 34 5508 51 7718
Currently there are three suspects: Bill, John, and Todd.
Can you break the detective’s code and find the criminal’s name?
Bill is the suspect. If the note is read upside down, the numbers read, “Bill is boss he sells oil”.
A man is found murdered on a Sunday afternoon. His wife calls the police, who question the wife and the staff, and are given the following alibis:
the wife says she was napping,
the butler says he was cleaning the closet,
the gardener says she was picking vegetables,
the maid says she was getting the mail, and
the cook says he was preparing dinner.
Immediately, the police arrest the murderer.
Who did it and how did the police know?
The maid. There is no mail on Sundays.
A murderer is condemned to death.
He has to choose between three rooms:
the first is full of raging fires,
the second, assassins with loaded guns, and
the third, lions who haven’t eaten in years.
Which room is the safest?
The room with the lions who would have already died of starvation after not having eaten in years.