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7 Riddles Only Real Detectives Could Solve
Riddle #1. Exhaust
Jack was imprisoned in a prison with a dirt floor and a window located at
such a high level that he cannot reach it. There is nothing in the cell
except a shovel. It's very hot, but he has no food or water. So Jack only has
2 days to escape. If not, he will die.
How can Jack escape from prison if digging a tunnel is not an option
because it would take him more than 2 days?
Riddle #2. stolen necklace
Mrs. Smith called the police reporting that an antique necklace had
been stolen. When the officers arrived at the crime scene they saw
that the door was not forced open. There was only one broken
window. Inside the house everything was a mess and the carpet had
many dirty footprints.
The next day Mrs. Smith was arrested as a fraudster. Because?
Riddle #3. Murder at school
On the first day of the new school year, during the last recess, the body of
the geography teacher was found in one of the classrooms. The police had
4 suspects: the gardener, the math teacher, the sports teacher and the
school principal. They all said what they were doing during the murder:
The gardener was pruning bushes in the backyard.
The math teacher was doing the mid-year exam.
The sports teacher was playing basketball with the students.
The director spent the entire day in his office.
Just after these statements, the police arrested the culprit. Who killed
the geography teacher and how did the police find out?
Riddle #4. a lonely person
On the outskirts of a city there lived an elderly man who never strayed
far from his home. One summer Friday, a mail delivery man came to his
house and called the man by name, but he did not answer. She looked
out the window and saw him lying on the floor in a pool of blood. The
postman called the police. Upon arriving at the scene, the officer found
next to the house two bottles with warm milk, one with cold milk and a
newspaper from Tuesday.
The next day, the police arrested the murderer. How did they
discover it so quickly?
Riddle #5. Two pills
A serial killer kidnapped people and made them take one of two
pills: one of them did no harm and the other killed immediately. The
murderer took the remaining pill. The kidnapped person swallowed
the pill, drank water and died instantly and the murderer always got
the harmless pill.
Why did the murderer never get the poisoned pill?
Riddle #6. frozen windows
One winter day, John found his friend Jack dead in the living
room of his own house. John called the police immediately and
when they asked him how he discovered the body, he replied that
he was passing by and decided to visit Jack.
According to him, he spent a long time knocking on the door, but
no one answered him, although the frozen window indicated that
there was a light on inside the house. That's when John reached
out to breathe on the frozen glass and melt the ice. When he
looked out the window, he saw that Jack was lying on the floor.
The police officer immediately arrested John for the murder.
Because?
Riddle #7. The chemist's enigma
A famous chemist was found dead in his own laboratory.
No evidence was found inside, except for a sheet of paper
next to the body: it was a list of various chemical
elements. The detective discovered that on the day of the
murder, 3 people had visited the scientist: his wife Mary,
his nephew Nicolás and his friend Jonathan.
The detective arrested the suspect immediately. As it
did?
SOLUTIONS
Riddle #1. Solution
Using a shovel, Jack needs to make a "hill" of dirt under the window, climb on top of it, and
escape through the window.
Riddle #2. Solution
The police realized that Mrs. Smith was deceiving them: the window was broken from the inside,
because if it had been broken from the outside, the remains of glass would be lying inside the
house.
Riddle #3. Solution
The math teacher was the one who killed the geography teacher. He said he was taking the mid-
year exam. However, the crime occurred on the first day of the school year.
Riddle #4. Solution
It is obvious that the murderer is the newspaper delivery boy. Only he knew that on Thursday and
Wednesday no one would read the newspaper anymore.
Riddle #5. Solution
Both pills were absolutely harmless. The poison was in the aforementioned glass of water.
Riddle #6. Solution
John couldn't melt the ice on the outside of the window because it only comes out on the inside
of the window.
Riddle #7. Solution
The clue was in the sheet of paper found next to the chemist. If you put together the letters used
to abbreviate these chemical elements, the name of the killer will appear: Ni-CO-La-S.
