Brain Teasers & Puzzles
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There was a death on Treebark Ln. The victim was identified as Mark Oswalt, who recently was married. The police went to the crime scene and they reported the death as a suicide.
Later that day, after the police left, a private detective, hired by the victim’s friend who thought it was a murder, searched the crime scene and found a note the police missed.
It read,
“4,3: 8,1:_: 9,1: 2,1: 7,4:_: 6,1:9,3:_: 9,1: 4,3: 3,3: 3,2: !”
The detective took out his cell phone and started dialing the police to tell them about his findings. Once the detective opened the phone to dial, he immediately screamed out, “I SOLVED IT!”
Who was the murderer and how did the detective find out?
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Justin Case and Auntie Bellum are fellow con artists who deliver coded messages to each other to communicate. Recently Auntie Bellum was put in jail for stealing a rare and expensive diamond. Only a few days after this, Justin Case sent her a friendly letter asking her how she was. On the inside of the envelope of the letter, he hid a code. Yesterday, Auntie Bellum escaped and left the envelope and the letter inside the jail cell. The police did some research and found the code on the inside of the envelope, but they haven’t been able to crack it. Could you help the police find out what the message is?
This is the code:
llwatchawtfeclocklnisksundialcirbetimersoolView SolutionSubmit Solution- 1,458.3K views
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How many tigers are there in the picture?
some say there are 4 tigers, some say 9, some say 20
can you find out how many tigers are there?View SolutionSubmit Solution- 1,459.7K views
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The number of hours left today is half of the number of hours already passed. What time is it?
A. 8:00 a.m.
B. 12:00
C. 14:00
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Here is snippet of section A of the curious multiple-choice entrance exam into the exclusive Puzzlefry puzzle club.
1. The first question with B as the correct answer is:
A. 1
B. 4
C. 3
D. 22. The answer to Question 4 is:
A. D
B. A
C. B
D. C3. The answer to Question 1 is:
A. D
B. C
C. B
D. A4. The number of questions which have D as the correct answer is:
A. 3
B. 2
C. 1
D. 05. The number of questions which have B as the correct answer is:
A. 0
B. 2
C. 3
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After the recent Puzzle annual marathon, the judges were comparing notes to determine who finished where. From their notes, can you help them to reconstruct the final result?
- Matthew Merryman beat Tom Trent and Jimmy James.
- Peter Piper beat Jimmy James, Tom Trent and Alan Ardman.
- Zach Zebra lost to Peter Piper.
- Graham Goodfellow beat Tom Trent
- Zach Zebra beat Frank Flintbone.
- Graham Goodfellow lost to Frank Flintbone and Peter Piper.
- Tom Trent beat Brian Brick.
- Alan Ardman beat Zach Zebra, Kevin Kingfisher and Graham Goodfellow.
- Kevin Kingfisher lost to Graham Goodfellow and Matthew Merryman.
- Brian Brick beat Kevin Kingfisher.
- Matthew Merryman lost to Alan Ardman and Zach Zebra.
- Frank Flintbone beat Tom Trent, Matthew Merryman and Brian Brick.
- Tom Trent lost to Jimmy James and Alan Ardman.
- Jimmy James beat Graham Goodfellow and Brian Brick.
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At the recent spring fete, four keen gardeners were displaying their fine roses.
In total there were four colours and each rose appeared in two colours.
From the clues below can you tell who had which colour roses?
- Mr Green had a yellow rose.
- Mr Yellow did not have a red one.
- Mr Red had a blue rose but not a green one.
- Mr Blue did not have a yellow one.
- One person with a red rose also had a green one.
- One person with a yellow rose also had a blue one.
- One of the persons with a green rose had no red.
- Neither of the persons with a yellow rose had a green one.
- No person has two roses of the same colour.
- No two persons had the same two colour roses and their names provide no clues.
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Puzzlefry bought 2 teapots,
If teapot A holds 32 cups of tea, about how many cups of tea does teapot B hold?
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A king wants an advisor and comes to ask the 3 wisest sages.
He blindfolds them and put the hats on their head. Afterwards, the king takes off their blindfolds. He tells them that their hat is either blue or white. He tells them that whoever can deduce the color of their hat will be his next advisor. Also he tells them that at least one of the sages will be wearing a blue hat. The sages can all see each other’s hats except of course, their own. Sage A sees that the other 2 are wearing blue hats.
For hours no one spoke, then Sage A stands up and tells the king the colour of his hat. What color is it and how does he know?View SolutionSubmit Solution- 1,461.2K views
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