A man lay dead in a room with 51...

Riddle: A man lay dead in a room with 51 bicycles around him. What happened?

Answer: The man was playing a poker game and cheated. The bicycles are a type of card.

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Answer: Jason McCubbins, Ray's business partner. The calendar is the clue to solving this murder. The police realized that since Mr. Whitcombe was wearing his watch on his right arm, he must be left-handed. But the pen was found in his right hand. Realizing that the number on the calendar was written in a hurry and with his opposite hand, the police matched the written number with the months of the year. So the B was an 8, thereby giving us 7-8-9-10-11: July, August, September, October, and November. Use the first letter of each month and it spells J-A-S-O-N

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Riddle: A dead female body lies at the bottom of a multistory building. It looks as though she committed suicide by jumping from one of the floors. When the detective arrives, he goes to the first floor of the building, opens the closed window, and flips a coin towards the floor. He goes to the second floor and does the exact same thing. He continues to do this until he gets to the top floor of the building. When he comes back down, he states that it was a murder and not a suicide. How does he know that?

Answer: She couldn’t have jumped from any of the floors because when the detective went to each floor, all of the windows were closed.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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?

Answer: 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.

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Riddle: A girl was at her mother's funeral, where she met an interesting man and fell for him right away. Before they could exchange numbers, he was nowhere to be seen. She didn't even know his name. Later the police arrested her for killing her older brother. Why did she kill him?

Answer: She hoped the man would show-up for her brother's funeral too.

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Riddle: A wife and her husband were driving in their car on the highway. All of a sudden, they ran out of gas. So the husband said to the wife, “Now, you stay here. I will go down the highway to the nearest gas station and return in about 1 hour. Just listen to the radio and read some books, and remember to lock all the windows and doors. I will leave the keys with you.” So, off the husband went, and the wife first locked ALL the windows and doors. Next, she turned on the radio, and this is what she heard on the news report: “THERE IS A MURDERER ON THE LOOSE. HE WAS LAST SEEN ON THE HIGHWAY, WEARING ALL BLACK, ABOUT 5 FOOT 11 INCHES. PLEASE, BE AWARE AND CONTACT THE POLICE IMMEDIATELY.” The wife got very scared. She turned off the radio and double-checked the locked doors. Then she saw the murderer, only a couple of feet away from the car. An hour later, the husband returned to his car. Inside the car, his wife was DEAD, she had been murdered. All the windows were still locked, and the doors. No windows were broken, and the car was in PERFECT condition. No scratches or anything, it was the same way as when he left it. How did the murderer kill the wife?

Answer: The car was a convertible, and the roof was open.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A man was found murdered on Sunday morning. The police questioned the wife and the staff and got the following alibis: The wife said she was sleeping. The cook was making breakfast. The gardener was picking vegetables. The maid was getting the mail. The butler was cleaning the closet. The police immediately arrested the murderer. Who did it, and how did they know?

Answer: It was the Maid. She said she was getting the mail, but there is no mail on Sunday!

Rating: 100%

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