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"Murder" Riddles - Next 10 of 117.
Riddle:
A man was found dead in his office, with a gun in his hand. and there was a cassette on the desk. when the detective came and pressed the play button the cassette said: "I have nothing to live for, I should die". then there was a sound of a gunshot. how did the detective right away know that this was a murder and not a suicide?
Answer: Someone had to rewind the tape in the cassette so that when the detective played it; it had to be rewound.
Riddle:
My little circle of friends here, getting bumped off one-by-one, reminds me of Agatha Christie's famous murder mystery "Ten Little Indians", where a small group of people are knocked off, one at a time, until only the killer and one person is left. The main difference is that in Christie's novel, the last survivor was to die by hanging, but in my situation, the sole survivor will be given "The Chair"! Should this person call the police? Is there a life-and-death scenario going on here, or is everyone's safety assured? What exactly is happening?
Answer: The person, along with a small group of their friends, is engaged in a game of Musical Chairs. "The Chair" is always reserved for the last person left.
Riddle:
A detective comes to the case of a woman's death by a 5 story building. The question is, was it murder or suicide? It is BELIEVED that the woman had jumped out of the window. The detective gets on each of the floors of the building, opens the window, and flips a coin out of it. He did this for all 5 floors then comes out of the building, declaring that it was indeed suicide. How did he know this?
Answer: All the windows were closed, meaning it couldn't have been suicide.
Riddle:
There has been a murder at the lake. The lead detective also has work at an oil company, but has an substantiated alibi. They suspect foul play. The coroner arrives at the scene, seconds later. The detective and the coroner have been friends for a long time. They both went missing for 6 hours the day before. The lake has been known to have high levels of pollution. The police arrive and search everywhere, but could not find the body. Where is the body and who is the murderer?
Answer: No person was murdered that day, the lake itself died because of the pollution. The murderer is the coroner since he does not have an alibi. The detective asked the coroner to do this in the name of their friendship. He agreed and polluted the lake. This was during the missing hours.
Riddle:
It was a Sunday morning. The father was getting the mail, the mother was in the kitchen cooking breakfast, the little sister was playing with dolls, the little brother was playing video games, the big sister was listening to music, and the big brother was reading a book. When the mother came into the big sister's room to tell her breakfast was done, the big sister was murdered. Who did it?
Answer: The father.
Riddle:
A famous chemist was murdered in his own lab. There was no evidence except for a piece of paper with the names of chemical substances on it. On the day he was murdered, the chemist had only 3 visitors: his wife, Mary, his nephew Nicolas, and his friend Johnathan. The police arrested the murderer right away. How did they know who it was?
Answer: The piece of paper had a clue on it. If you combine the short names of the chemical substances on the paper, you’ll get a name: Ni-C-O-La-S.
Riddle:
A man entered his house and was about to hang up his coat when he heard his wife shout; "No John! Don't do it!" There was a shot and he could hear his wife fall down. When he entered the kitchen he saw his wife and the gun lying on the floor. There was a police officer, a doctor, and a lawyer standing next to her. Peter immediately knew that the police officer had shot her. But how did he come to know?
Answer: The policeman's name tag said John.
Riddle:
There are five people. One of them shot and killed one of the other five. Which man is the murderer? 1. Dan ran in the NY City marathon yesterday with one of the innocent men. 2. Mike considered being a farmer before he moved to the city. 3. Jeff is a topnotch 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.
Answer: 1. Jack is not the murderer, because he is the brother of the murderer. 2. 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. 3. Ben is not the murderer if he just met Jack, since Jack and the murderer grew up together. 4. 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 didn'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 detective in training is called to a room on his first day in, once there his instructor greets him and tells him he has a deck of fish cards. Alongside the instructor are two men who hold three cards from the same deck. He was given a paper reexplaining the prompt which had written on top: "Each man will say what he has, yet one man is lying... This man is the murderer." The first man began, he stated he held a shark, a shrimp, and a catfish. The second man stated he held two goldfish and a lion. Who is the murderer?
Answer: A common first answer is the second man, whereas a shrimp is not considered a fish in this case either... You can look over this again if you'd like now. The answer: The instructor There was only one liar, meaning if the deck was really of fish as the instructor said, they would both be lying in contrary to the prompt. Meaning the only way the statement could be true is if the instructor was the murderer.
Riddle:
There's a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in his death, yet there's no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with a pair of scissors?
Answer: The person slept on a waterbed. His killer used the scissors to cut the bed open and drown him.
