Riddles

Riddle

• The woman broke her hand and it saved her life.
  

Solution

• Doctors inserted a metal pin into the woman's hand for the recovery. The patient quickly went on the amendment and agreed to a business trip. However, at the airport, she was late for the flight because of the metal detector. The place crashed when landing.
  

Riddle

• Donald and Jack died because they were too close together.
  

Solution

• Donald and Jack were skydiving instructors. During one of their jumps, they flew too close together, which caused their parachutes to tangle. As a result, they fell to the ground.

Riddle

• The woman's cold killed her whole family.

Solution

• Because of the cold, the woman had a stuffy nose and she did not smell a gas leak in the kitchen. One match was enough for the whole house to explode.

Riddle

• The man died after visiting the dentist.

Solution

• The doctor used a local anesthetic to remove a sick tooth from the patient. Because of that, the man's tongue was numb. When he went home, he was attacked with a knife, but he could not scream because of the numb tongue.

Riddle

• The man went to the lake. A few hours later, his charred body was found in the forest.

Solution

• The man was diving in the lake. Meanwhile, a fire broke out in the forest nearby. The fire helicopter came to the lake to draw water but accidentally sucked up the diver. After that, he was dropped into the burning forest from the helicopter.

Riddle

• The doctor killed his patient, but no one condemned him.

Solution

• The patient took a blood test without telling the doctor that she had AIDS. The doctor did not follow all the precautions and accidentally pricked himself. He was so angry that he killed her.

Riddle

• The man tried on new shoes made of crocodile skin in the store and suffocated.

Solution

• Unfortunately, there was a very venomous insect in one of his shoes. When he put on his shoes, the insect bit him and the man suffocated because of the poison.

Riddle

• The man fell from a height of 6 feet to the grass but died.

Solution

• The man fell into the bear enclosure and it tore into him.

Riddle

• She killed her sister to meet her love.

Solution

• At her mother's funeral, a woman meets a man she has never seen before. Suddenly, she realizes that he is the man of her dreams and falls in love with him instantly. A few days later, she kills her sister, hoping that the man will appear at the funeral once again.

Riddle

• Hundreds of people were killed because of sleep.

Solution

• The lighthouse keeper fell asleep. The lantern's light suddenly disappeared, which caused several passenger ships to crash.

Riddle

• The man walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a glass of water. The bartender reaches under the bar, brings out a gun, and aims it at the man. The man says, "Thank you," and leaves.

Solution

• The man had the hiccups and wanted a glass of water to help get rid of them. The bartender could hear the hiccups when the man spoke, so he brought the gun out to scare the hiccups away. It worked and the man thanked him and left, no longer needing the glass of water.

Riddle

• The body of a man hangs under the ceiling of the temple. There is a huge pool of water under him.

Solution

• The man decided to commit suicide. He went to an abandoned church outside the city. The whole building was covered with snow and he easily climbed to the ceiling and hanged himself. Then the spring came and melted all the snow.

Riddle

• Jack's dinner killed his family.

Solution

• Jack went camping with his family. He decided to cook meat for dinner, but the smell of it attracted the bears and the bears ate them.

Riddle

• A woman died because of a long phone call.

Solution

• While returning from the tire fitting, the woman was talking to her friend on the phone. At this time, she was calling from the workshop to warn her that they forgot to fix the bolts. As a result, the wheel flew off and the car flew into the ditch.

Riddle

• The man lost his cloth doing a daily routine and, as a consequence, died.

Solution

• The man is a deep-sea diver. He lost his mask.

Riddle

• Today's inspection walk was the last for Martin.

Solution

• Martin did a scheduled inspection of a plane when the pilot started the engine. Unluckily, the stream of air pulled him into the engine.

Riddle

• The man wins his death.

Solution

• Three sailors were shipwrecked on a small raft. When they ran out of food, they decided to play the lottery: a man whose name would be on a pulled piece of paper would be eaten.

Riddle

• They suffocated of love.

Solution

• A lover with his mistress had fun in the car in the garage. The garage was not heated, and the man started the car. After a while, they both died from exhaust fumes.

Riddle

• The man killed the mayor in front of the crowd, but no one imprisoned him.

Solution

• The man worked as an executioner and executed the mayor for his crimes.

Riddle

• Free help turned into two deaths.

Solution

• John was very ill and needed a kidney transplant. His friend agreed to help him for free. After the surgery, Jack began to regain his strength but suddenly both men died. It turned out that the donor was infected with rabies.

Riddle

• Unfortunately, it was the last concert of his life.

Solution

• The enthusiastic crowd at the concert did not notice that one of the participants of the events had fallen down. His body was found broken during the show. It turned out that the man was a diabetic and left his insulin pen at home.

Riddle

• The woman jumped off the roof of the skyscraper. Before the fall, she saw the passerby and regretted it.

Solution

• After the apocalypse, the woman spent many years wandering around the earth in search of other people. Not finding anyone, she decided to jump off the roof. At the bottom, she saw a living person, but it was too late.

Riddle

• Nobody expected such an evening drama.

Solution

• During one of the scenes, an actor had to feign a heart attack. Unluckily, a real heart attack took place at the exact same time as the scene. No one could help him afterward.

Riddle

• One of the students failed to keep his responsibilities, causing the death of many.

Solution

• A group of students wanted to reach the peak. They divided responsibilities between themselves. When they had a break in high mountains, it turned out that the person responsible for the food supplies did not bring anything. They found some blueberries, which, unfortunately, were poisonous.

Riddle

• Romeo and Juliet lie dead on the floor. Broken glass is around them. There is no blood, but the window is wide open.

Solution

• Romeo and Juliet are fish. A strong wind opened the window and knocked the aquarium off the table. The aquarium was broken, and they suffocated.

Riddle

• The man went to the restaurant and ordered the meat of a seagull. He tried a piece and shot himself.

Solution

• A few months earlier, the man was shipwrecked with his wife. He rescued his wife and one of the waiters and managed to get to an uninhabited island. The survivors had no food at all, and the waiter set off to find some with the man's wife. The waiter killed her and brought the man her meat, saying that his wife fell off a cliff and he brought seagull meat. The taste of the meat in the restaurant was different than the taste of the meat on the island, and he realized that he had eaten his wife. He then committed suicide.

Riddle

• The woman woke up at night, saw a shadow, and in a couple of minutes she committed suicide.

Solution

• The woman woke up at night and saw a shadow from a carrier pigeon. The letter was from her husband's colleague, it said that the husband died. Unable to stand the burden of her loss, the woman committed suicide.

Riddle

• The girl died because of a strong wind.

Solution

• Today was very windy, and Lisa decided to play with a kite. Suddenly, thunderclouds came and lightning struck her.

Riddle

• The woman woke up early on a sunny morning, went to the window, and shot herself.
  

Solution

• The woman was the leader of the sect. Last night, she gathered all her followers and predicted the end of the world. Hundreds of people committed suicide that night. The woman could not stand the burden of responsibility and shot herself.
  

Riddle

• Two men died because of heat.
  

Solution

• Two men went on a canoeing trip. They both took off their life vests because of the heat. A strong current pulled them under the water and they drowned.
  

Riddle

• A man did not predict the time required to achieve his goal. He paid for it with his life.
  

Solution

• The man planned to get money from his life insurance. He decided to cut off his arm to get the most compensation but he did not take into consideration the long distance to the nearest hospital. As a result, the ambulance did not arrive in time and the man bled to death.
  

Riddle

• The man died because of a birthday.
  

Solution

• An upstairs neighbor noisily celebrated his birthday. Jack was watching TV in the living room when suddenly a chandelier fell on him.
  

Riddle

• They died because of Alice's vanity.

Solution

• Despite the warning, a girl took her mobile phone on a rollercoaster to take a selfie. Because of cart shake, her mobile phone fell down causing the brake mechanism of the rollercoaster to fail. No one survived at the last station.
  

Riddle

• The woman was on the third floor of her house when she noticed a man with a knife. Nevertheless, she was killed in a moment.
  

Solution

• In fact, the man was behind her and the woman saw the shadow of the murderer.
  

Riddle

• A man was shot to death while in his car. There were no powder marks on his clothing, which indicated that the gunman was outside the car. However, all the windows were up and the doors locked. After a close inspection was made, the only bullet holes discovered were on the man's body.
  

  How was he murdered?

Solution

• The victim was in a convertible. He was shot when the top was down.

Riddle

• A man plots the murder of his wife. His plan is foolproof. Nobody saw him leaving the house. He stabbed her with a knife while driving. She died on the spot. He threw her body into a valley. He threw the knife, carefully wiping his fingerprints, in a random garbage bin. then he went back to his home. No one was watching him.
  

  After an hour, he was called by the local police department, who informed him that his wife had been murdered. They asked him to come to the scene of the crime immediately. As soon as he arrived, he was arrested.

  How did the police know he was the murderer?

Solution

• It is clear that the police never told him where the crime scene was. But still, he reached the correct place. It means that he knew about the crime and he, himself, is the murderer.

Riddle

• You live alone. You own a shed, which has been locked. The lock that has been placed on the door can be closed without a key but needs a key to be opened. You have collected some old things and have decided to keep them in your shed. When you are done storing them away, you lock the shed up. The next day, the police find a dead body inside your shed. As you are the only one living in your house, the police have reason to believe you are the murderer. But you have not committed any crime.
  

  There is a way the murder would have happened. Can you find the way and tell the police, so you are not sentenced for the crime you did not commit?

Solution

• The lock can be closed without a key.

  While you were storing your things inside the shed, the murderer took the lock hanging from the door and replaced it with an identical one. You closed the lock, as it did not require a key. While you were gone, the murderer opened the new lock with his key, planted the body inside, replaced the lock with the original one, and locked it.

Riddle

• A very famous chemist was found murdered in his kitchen today. The police have narrowed it down to six suspects. They know it was a two-man job. Their names: Felice, Maxwell, Archibald, Nicolas, Jordan, and Xavier.
  

  A note was also found with the body: "26-3-58/28-27-57-16".

  Who are the killers?

Solution

• Felice and Nicolas are the murderers.

  The numbers correspond to atomic numbers on the periodic table of elements:

  • "Fe-Li-Ce/Ni-Co-La-S"

Riddle

• A man got killed in his office. The suspects are Edison, Maxis, Jason, Janna, Sofia, and Patrick. A calendar near the man has, in blood, written on it: 6, 4, 9, 10, 11.
  

  Who is the killer?

Solution

• Jason is the killer.

  The numbers represent the starting letter of the month they stand for in a calendar:

  • 6 - June (J)
  • 4 - April (A)
  • 9 - September (S)
  • 10 - October (O)
  • 11 - November (N)

Riddle

• 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 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 policeman 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?

Solution

• The man was shot in the stomach, but Sean said that he was shot from behind.

Riddle

• A dead body is found at the bottom of a multi-story building. Seeing the position of the body, it is evident that the person jumped from one of the floors to commit suicide.
  

  A homicide detective is called to look into the case. He goes to the first floor and walks into the room facing the direction in which the body was found. He opens the window in that direction and flips a coin toward the ground.

  He then goes to the second floor and repeats the process. He keeps doing this until the last floor. Then, when he goes back outside, he tells the team that it was a murder, not a suicide.

  How did he come to know it was a murder?

Solution

• On each floor, the detective did the same task of opening the window and flipping the coin. If it was a suicide, one of the windows on any floor must have been left open by the person who jumped. The present situation only suggests that someone pushed the victim and then closed the window again.

Riddle

• One evening, there was a murder in the home of a married couple, their son, and daughter. One of these four people murdered one of the others. One of the members of the family witnessed the crime. The other one helped the murderer.
  

  1. The witness and the one who helped the murderer were not of the same sex.
  2. The oldest person and the witness were not of the same sex.
  3. The youngest person and the victim were not of the same sex.
  4. The one who helped the murderer was older than the victim.
  5. The father was the oldest member of the family.
  6. The murderer was not the youngest member of the family.

  Who was the murderer?

Solution

• The mother.

  We know from (3) that the youngest person was not the victim, from (4) that the youngest person was not the helper, and from (6) that the youngest person was not the killer. Therefore, the youngest person can only have been the witness. There are three possible combinations:

  1. Oldest person (father): H H M
  2. Next to oldest (mother): V M H
  3. Next to youngest (son): M V V
  4. Youngest (daughter): W W W
  • H = Helper
  • V = Victim
  • M = Murderer
  • W = Witness

  We can work out from (5) that the father was the oldest, and from (2) that the youngest person must have been the daughter. Therefore, the next youngest must have been the son, and the next to oldest, the mother.

  Of three possibilities: the first is impossible (from (3), the youngest person and the victim were of different sexes); the third is also impossible (from (1), the witness and the helper were of different sexes). Therefore, only the second possibility holds, and the mother is the murderer.

Riddle

• A wealthy man lives alone in a small cottage. Being partially handicapped, he had everything delivered to his cottage. The mailman was delivering a letter one Thursday, when he noticed that the front door was ajar. Through the opening, he could see the man's body lying in a pool of blood. When a police officer arrived, he surveyed the scene. On the porch were two bottles of warm milk, Monday's newspaper, a catalog, flyers, and unopened mail. The police officer suspects it was foul play.
  

  Who does he suspect and why?

Solution

• The police officer suspects the newspaper delivery person. The absence of Tuesday's and Wednesday's newspaper indicates that the delivery person knew there was no one there to read it.

Riddle

• A rich and handsome man named James Leonard was murdered on a Sunday afternoon. At hte time of the murder, there was: the maid, the cook, the butler, the gardener, and the wife. They gave the following statements:
  

  • Cook: "I was cooking breakfast."
  • Butler: "I was polishing the silverware and the dishes."
  • Gardener: "I was planting tomato seeds."
  • Wife: "I was reading a book."

  Who did it?

Solution

• The cook did it. You don't cook breakfast in the afternoon.

Riddle

• A man was killed in his office. At the time of the murder, there were only four people in the office: Bill, Tom, Harry, and Mike.
  

  When police interrogated them, they gave the following statements:

  • Bill: "Tom did it."
  • Tom: "Bill did it."
  • Harry: "Tom's telling the truth."
  • Mike: "Harry's not lying."

  After analysis, the police found out that only one person was telling the truth and the rest were lying. Can you analyze the statements and determine the killer?

Solution

• Tom is the killer and Bill spoke the truth.

  If Bill was the killer, both Tom and Harry will be telling the truth.

  If Harry was the killer, none of the statements will be true.

  If Mike was the killer, none of the statements will be true.

Riddle

• At the scene of a heinous crime, five suspects, one of whom is the guilty party, are being interrupted by a detective. Each of the suspects gives one statement and it later transpired that just three statements are correct.
  

  These are the statements:

  • Uncle Jack: "Uncle Jim committed the murder."
  • Aunt Mary: "I did not do it."
    
  • Cousin Stewart: "It was not Cousin Margaret."
  • Uncle Jim: "Uncle Jack is lying when he says I did it."
  • Cousin Margaret: "Aunt Mary is telling the truth."

  Who was the guilty party?

Solution

• Cousin Margaret.

  The statements of Aunt Mary, Uncle Jim, and Cousin Margaret are true.

Riddle

• A man was going to bleach his socks because they had gotten muddy the day before. As he was pouring the bleach into the washing machine, he spilled some on the floor. He got some cleaning fluid and mopped it up with a rag. Minutes, later, he was dead.
  

  What killed him?

Solution

• When you mix bleach and ammonia (found in most cleaning products), it creates a deadly gas that can be lethal.

Riddle

• Detective Sherlock Holmes reviewed the information they had on the case so far. A lady named "Himanshi" was found shot, and they already had a list of suspects - Ankit, Tarun, Harish, Manoj, and Manish. The killer is a fan of Sherlock and challenges him by leaving notes in various places.
  

  1. The first was found in a toilet room.
  2. The second was found in an art room.
  3. The third was in a restroom.
  4. The fourth was in an underwater room.
  5. The fifth was in a no-smoking room.

  All of the notes read the same thing, "The clues are where you find the notes." Yet, nothing was found at any place the notes were. Sherlock, the genius, immediately solved the case.

  Who was the killer?

Solution

• It was Tarun.

  1. Toilet room (T)
  2. Art room (A)
  3. Restroom (R)
  4. Underwater room (U)
  5. No-smoking room (N)

Riddle

• There are five people. One of them shot and killed one of the other five.
  

  • Dan ran in the NY City marathon yesterday with one of the innocent men.
  • Mike considered being a farmer before he moved to the city.
  • Jeff is a top-notch computer consultant and wants to install Ben's new computer next week.
  • The murderer had his leg amputated last month.
  • Ben met Jack for the first time six months ago.
  • Jack has been in seclusion since the crime.
  • Dan used to drink heavily.
  • Ben and Jeff built their last computers together.
  • The murderer is Jack's brother. They grew up together in Seattle.

  Police arrived at the scene and immediately found the murderer.

  Who was the murderer?

Solution

• Jeff killed Mike.

  Jack is not the murderer, because he is the brother of the murderer.

  Dan can't be the murderer since he ran a marathon, and the murderer recently had his leg amputated, and wouldn't be running a marathon of any magnitude that quickly.

  Ben is not the murderer if he just met Jack since Jack and the murderer grew up together.

  This leaves Jeff and Mike.

  Since Jeff is still alive (he wants to install a new computer next week, present tense), he must be the murderer.

  Mike also doesn't grow up with Jack.

  It has been determined that Jack, Dan, and Jeff are all alive. Ben must also be alive since Jeff plans to install Ben's computer next week.

  This means that Jeff killed Mike.

Riddle

• A girl, at the funeral of her mother, met a guy whom she did not know. She fell for him and just kept looking at him. Sometime later, she realized that the guy was gone and she forgot to take his number. Now she can't find him. A few days later, she killed her elder brother. What was her motive for killing her brother?

Solution

• She was hoping that the guy would appear at the funeral again.

Riddle

• A man is found dead. When the investigation is over, he is found dead with a knife in his back. A chair sets beside him, and the forensic team finds moisture around the body.
  

  If the man committed suicide, how did he do it?

Solution

• The man used an ice knife. The ice was capable of holding the knife pointing upward and he dropped down on the chair with his back toward the knife. The moisture indicates the melting of ice.

Riddle

• A couple went on a climbing trip. But only the husband returned from the vacation. He said that his wife slipped off while climbing and died. Upon investigating, the local sheriff arrested him, saying, "Your travel agent called. You murdered your wife."
  

  The man had not informed anyone about the trip. How was the sheriff so sure it was murder?

Solution

• The man bought only a one-way ticket for his wife, whereas he bought a two-way ticket for himself. It means that he was sure that he would be returning alone.

Riddle

• Four boys were playing a game in which they need to throw a stone in the water so that the stone doesn't sink into the water (there are some solid areas in the water).
  

  • Boy 1: Succeeded in throwing 2 stones at a solid area but 1 of the stones sunk.
  • Boy 3: All stone sunk.
  • Boy 4: None of the stones sunk.
  • Boy 2: Was the winner, but was struck by a stone in the head and died.

  Who killed Boy 2?

Solution

• Boy 1. He was left with one stone.