Detective Puzzles
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A hen, a dog, and a cat are stolen. Three suspects are arrested named Robin, Steve, and Tim. The police are sure that all of them stole one of the animals but they don’t know who stole which animal.
Sherlock Holmes is appointed to identify and is provided with the following statements from the investigation.
Robin – Tim stole the hen
Steve – Tim stole the dog
Tim – Both Robin and Steve are lying. I neither stole a hen nor a dog.Sherlock is somehow able to deduce that the man who stole the cat is telling a lie and the man who stole the hen is telling truth.
Can you help him find out who stole which animal?
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Shauna was killed one Sunday morning. The police know who they are going to arrest from this bit of information:
April was getting the mail.
Alyssa was doing laundry.
Reggie was cooking.
Mark was planting in the garden.Who killed Shauna and how did the police know who to arrest?
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Ron’s father’s flying car got stolen and during the trial, he told that his father’s car was stolen by his lover Hermione Granger. Harry Potter and Ron also gave the statements regarding the case which I am not mentioning here.
The thief went to the Azkaban Jail.
Later on, it was observed that only the guilty person gave the correct statement. Who was the thief and hence went to Azkaban?
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ames Bond was relaxing in his hotel room in Lyon when he heard a knock at his door. Bond opened the door and see a beautiful woman whom he had never seen in his life. She said that she is so sorry and she thought that this was her room. She was about to leave the room when the Bond takes out his pistol and ask the girl to stop.
What made Bond suspicious of the girl?
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After a local bungled heist, five suspects were being interviewed by the police.
Eventually the police managed to get a confession.
Below is a summary of their statements and it turns out that exactly 5 of these statements were true.
Would you make a good detective, try and work out who committed the crime?
Adrian said:
It was not Barry
It was CedricBarry said:
It was not Adrian
It was DerekCedric said:
It was not Derek
It was not BarryDerek said:
It was not Eric
It was AdrianEric said:
It was not Cedric
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Two friends went on for a climbing trip. But only one returned from the vacation and said that his friend slipped off while climbing and died. On investigating, the local sheriff arrested him saying, ‘Your travel agent called. You murdered your friend.’
The man did not inform anyone about the trip. Then how did the agent was so sure that it is a murder?
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