These riddles with solution They will help you train to test your ingenuity and ability to solve problems that require you to stop and think. They are for children and adults and you can play with your friends or family to make it more fun. The answers can be found at the end.
Jack is locked in a cell whose only window is too high to be reached. The cell is empty except for a shovel. It is hot, there is no water source within reach and Jack will not receive food or drinks for now.
Thus, Jack only has two days to get out of the cell, otherwise he will die. Digging a tunnel is not feasible as it would take more than two days. How would Jack escape from the cell?
Four friends take photos in a haunted house. When developing the photos they are surprised to see the shadow of a ghost in one of them. They decide to take her to a medium and he tells them that they have played a prank. How do you know?
Every morning an old woman who lives on the 10th floor of a building takes the elevator from the 10th floor to the ground floor, and goes to buy bread. Upon returning, he takes the elevator again, but goes up to the 8th floor and continues up the stairs to his house on the 10th floor. Why is he doing this??
A man became famous for jumping out of the window of a 100-story building without being hurt. How could it have been possible?
Marissa and Juliana went out for drinks. They both ordered the same drink and with ice. Juliana was really thirsty, so she had five drinks. In the same period of time, Marissa only took one. All the drinks were poisoned, but only Marissa died. Why?
A young man stole merchandise from a supermarket. While running from the police entered a training facility. The police officer found her sweatshirt in front of a classroom door. As soon as he entered and saw all the students, he knew who the young man he was looking for was. Without needing to see his face, how did you know who the young man was?
Jack and Rosa meet at a concert. After a week of mischievous friendship, Rosa invites Jack to her house. When he arrives, he receives the surprise that Rosa has a twin sister named Ana.
They both begin to joke by not telling Jack which one of them is the real Rose. However, Jack only had to remember one of his dates with Rosa and observe the right forearm of both to know who his future fiancée was. As it did?
Mr. José turns off the light and goes to sleep. The next morning you read in the news that a ship crashed into the rocks and the entire crew disappeared. Feeling so much remorse, he surrendered to the police.
A woman is in her hotel room when there is a knock on the door. Upon opening, he meets a man and he excuses himself by saying: "I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I thought it was my room." Then the man walks down the corridor and takes the elevator. The woman immediately picks up the phone and speaks to security. What caused suspicions in the woman?
A Japanese ship was leaving the port for the open sea. The captain noticed a can of oil on the deck and removed his ring so as not to ruin it while cleaning. He left it on the table, but when he came back the ring was gone.
The captain suspected that three members of his staff might be guilty, so he asked them what they had been doing in the time he was absent..
The cook claimed to be in the kitchen preparing dinner; the engineer claimed to be in the engine room supervising the equipment; and the sailor claimed to be on the mast arranging the flag, since someone had turned it upside down by mistake. Then the captain, upon hearing the statements, knew who it had been. Who was?
Mrs. Smith went to the police saying that her old necklace was missing. I was furious; However, when the police arrived at the house they saw that there was no sign of a break-in, as there were no forced locks or open doors.
There was only a broken window whose glass had fallen out, untidy furniture and footprints all over the floor. Surprisingly, the next day Mrs. Smith was arrested for fraud. Why?
On the first day of class, the geography teacher was assassinated. When the police arrived, they took four suspects: the gardener, the coach, the math teacher and the principal..
The problem is compounded by the fact that they all had alibis. The gardener said he was cutting bushes; the math teacher said he was giving a final exam; the coach said he was playing soccer; and the director said he was in his office. Despite this, the killer was immediately arrested. Who was the murderer? How did the cops solve the mystery?
A lonely man lives at his home in the suburbs of the city. He leads a quiet life and has never left his home for long periods of time. It was a summer Friday when the delivery man passed by and called the man, however, he did not get an answer..
He leaned out the window and saw the man in a pool of blood. When the police officer arrived, he found Tuesday's newspaper, two bottles of hot milk and a bottle of cold milk at the door of the house. The next day the murderer was arrested. How did the police know so fast who the killer was?
A serial killer has a particular way of treating his victims. He kidnaps people and tells them that they have to choose one of two pills. Tells them that one of the pills is poisonous, the other is harmless.
When his victims take one pill, the killer takes the other. Then the scheme is repeated continuously: the victims take their pills with water and die while the murderer, repeatedly, survives. How does the killer always get the harmless pill?
Once, on a very cold day, a tragedy occurred: John found his friend dead in his own home. John called the police and claimed to be passing near Jack's house when he decided to visit him..
John said he was knocking on the door, but got no answer; as he leaned out the window he blew on the glass so he could see, so he could see that there were lights on and he observed Jack on the ground. Unexpectedly, the police arrested John as the first suspect. Why?
An invention was stolen from a famous chemist. There was no evidence except for a paper with names of the elements carbon, oxygen, nickel, lanthanum and sulfur. On the day the robbery occurred, the chemist received three visitors: his wife Mary, his nephew Nicolas, and his friend Jonathan. Police quickly arrested the killer. How did they know who it was?
Answer: The answer is on paper. By taking the chemical symbol of the indicated substances, a name is formed: nickel (Ni), carbon (C), oxygen (O), lanthanum (La) and sulfur (S), they form the word Nicolas.
The body of a woman lies at the bottom of a multi-story building, appearing to have been a suicide. When the police arrive, go upstairs, observe that all the windows are closed and toss a coin from each floor. When finished, he concludes that it was a homicide and not a suicide. How did you get to that conclusion?
A girl is at her mother's funeral and there she meets a boy. She was so busy with funeral business that she couldn't ask for her number; When asking the others, they all claimed not to know who that boy was. A few days later the girl murders her sister. Why?
A man was found dead on the floor with a tape recorder in one hand and a pistol in the other. When the police arrived on the scene, they played the recording contained in the device and the man's voice was heard saying: “I don't have anything else to live for, I can go in peace”, followed by the sound of a gunshot. After hearing it, they knew it was a homicide, not a suicide. How?
A British detective has been investigating an oil smuggling case across the country. One day the detective disappears without leaving a trace, more than a set of numbers written on paper, these are:
7718
By reading these numbers the detective friend named Bill is arrested and taken as the main suspect. Why?
A woman was in court, accused of murdering her husband. She claimed to be innocent and that she missed her husband. At the conclusion of the trial, the woman's lawyer stands up and says: “Her husband was just lost. Everyone look at the door, in 30 seconds he will enter ".
The entire jury looked toward the door while the woman and her attorney looked at the jury. The lawyer says: "If they really believed that this woman was guilty, they would not have looked at the door." The jury immediately found the woman guilty. Why?
The apothecary and his daughter, the doctor and his wife, ate nine cakes and each got three. How is it possible?
It was a Sunday afternoon when Marta came home to find that her dog had been stolen. When the police arrive, they interrogate the people present.
Marta claimed to have spent the entire day shopping; the gardener claimed to be mowing the lawn; the cook claimed to be preparing lunch and the housekeeper claimed to be collecting the letters that the postman had left that day. Immediately the police knew who it had been. Who had been?
A dead person appears in the suburbs of the city. After certain investigations, the detective discovers the murderer, but he was never tried or went to jail. Why?
In a tree there are seven nightingales. A hunter arrives and hunts two of them. How many nightingales are left on the tree?
A 60-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl are having coffee at a local when a man passes by. "Hello father," says the 60-year-old woman; "Hello father," says the 16-year-old. How is it possible?
A man kidnaps a girl named Lucy. The man gives the girl a chance to escape, points to three doors and says: “The first door is full of killers with loaded weapons. The second door hides a blazing fire. And the third door is full of tigers that have not eaten in two years. Lucy immediately entered through the third door. Why?
A man was shot while in his car. There were no dust marks on his clothing, so forensics determined the killer was outside the car. However, all the glass was upstairs, the doors were closed, and the only holes they found were in the man's body. How did the murder happen?
A serial killer invites a victim to his home. After having eaten lunch, the killer offers his victim an apple. Take a knife and chop the apple in two so that you can both eat the same fruit. After each one has finished their piece, the victim falls unconscious. If they both ate the same apple, why did only the victim perish??
A woman walks into a restaurant and orders a cup of tea. Upon receiving it, she is horrified to find a fly in her cup; the waiter takes it away and brings her a fresh cup of tea again. The woman tastes the tea and yells, "You brought me the same cup of tea!" How did he know?
A man was found dead in the snow and the only clues are a pair of footprints in the snow between two thin parallel lines. Who should the police be looking for?
Every day a man crosses the border on a bicycle with two bags of sand. Border guards received word that the man is a smuggler.
When the man tried to cross the border, they searched his sandbags, however they did not find anything else. So what was the man smuggling?
A woman captures her husband and immerses him in the water for five minutes. A while later they both go out to eat and enjoy a romantic evening. How is this possible?
Answer: The woman captures her husband in a photograph, then immerses it in water for five minutes to be revealed.
A man kills his wife in the car with a knife and no one around notices it. He lowers the corpse from the car, being careful not to leave any footprints on the body, throws the knife over a cliff and returns home. An hour later a policeman calls the man, tells him that his wife has been murdered and that he is needed at the crime scene immediately. As soon as the man arrives he is arrested. Why?
A naked man appears in the desert. There is no trace of a path or of footprints in his path, several pieces of clothing appear next to him and he holds an unused match in his hand. How did man get to the desert without leaving traces?
Romeo and Juliet appear dead on the floor of a room. The door was closed, but the window was open. They weren't poisoned, but we can see a pool of water, fake sea plants, and pieces of glass on the ground. What happened?
Mrs. Carter was on vacation for two weeks. When he got home he found a big mess made by cats, however, what caught his attention the most was his missing jewelry box..
When a police officer arrived, Mrs. Carter said: “When I left, I left the keys to my house with Mr. Brahms, so that he would water my flowers; to Mrs. Fox, to tend my cats; and to Mr. León, to fix the damaged thermostat ".
The policeman, after inspecting the house, questioned the three suspects and all claimed to be innocent. Then the policeman took Mrs. Fox away for the theft of the jewels. Why?
A boy runs into a bar, and urgently asks for a glass of water. The waiter, who sees him, takes out a pistol and points it at him. At the moment, the boy says "thank you" to the waiter and leaves. What happened?
A ship captain will bring justice to a rebellious sailor. He decides to cast it to chance and proposes to take a piece of paper from a bag. If the paper with the cross drawn comes out, the sailor is expelled, but if the blank paper comes out, the sailor stays. At midnight the sailor finds out that two papers with crosses will be put in the bag to ensure their expulsion.
The time comes to take out the paper and, just as they do, the sailor puts the removed paper in his mouth and swallows it. Why does that?
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