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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 8, 2017 16:11:04 GMT
Correct Jervis.  Last one for now... A man murders his wife with a knife in their car. Nobody is around to see this. He throws her out of the car being careful not to leave any fingerprints on her body. Next he throws the knife off of a cliff into a gorge where it will never be found and he goes home. An hour later the police call him and tell him that his wife has been murdered and he needs to come to the scene of the crime immediately. As soon as he arrives, he is arrested. How did they know he did it? |
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Post by jervistetch on Jun 8, 2017 16:12:50 GMT
He wouldn't know where to go if he hadn't committed the crime. |
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Post by jervistetch on Jun 8, 2017 16:15:35 GMT
The handicapped man. Is it the paper boy? He hasn't brought the paper since Monday because he knew the man was dead. |
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 8, 2017 16:20:54 GMT
Correct with both answers Jervis. You're getting too good at this. Your turn. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 8, 2017 16:34:10 GMT
Correct. The usual answer is the newspaper boy as he hadn't delivered since Monday (obviously a daily paper). Your logic on the milkman is perfectly sound too. But then the question was who was suspected (presumably at first). A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms: the first is full of raging fires; the second, assassins with loaded guns; and the third, lions who haven't eaten in years. Which room is the safest? Yes, but, because of the sheer cost of my household's so-called "daily paper," we changed it only to specific days. I mean, yes, that's another flaw in the reasoning, but, as you say, who was suspected at first. Actually, if that were the wording for more of those "five-minute mysteries" that ended with an " I Never Said It Was Poison" solution, I wouldn't dislike those as much as I do. (They seem to indicate that the so-and-so must be the killer just because he "knew it was poison"--Carr had a grand time mocking those clues in his essay "The Grandest Game in the World.") Anyhoo, as for the "man is condemned to death" bit--the set-up rather reminds me of "The Lady, or the Tiger?" (one of my favorite of the 19th-century "puzzle tales"--the other notable one is of course "The Mysterious Card")--I'm not quite sure. Perhaps... The lions, because, if they haven't eaten in years, they would have died? Yes, now that I think of it. Tricky phraseology there. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 8, 2017 16:35:32 GMT
Correct Jervis. Last one for now... A man murders his wife with a knife in their car. Nobody is around to see this. He throws her out of the car being careful not to leave any fingerprints on her body. Next he throws the knife off of a cliff into a gorge where it will never be found and he goes home. An hour later the police call him and tell him that his wife has been murdered and he needs to come to the scene of the crime immediately. As soon as he arrives, he is arrested. How did they know he did it? He knew where the body was, which the police didn't tell him? |
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 8, 2017 16:37:41 GMT
You lot are too good for me. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 8, 2017 16:40:22 GMT
tarathian123 's "man is condemned to death" puzzle reminded me both of "The Lady, or the Tiger?" and of another riddle I recently read:
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 8, 2017 17:13:06 GMT
I pondered this puzzle for at least an hour before my transistors blew. Then I poured a drink and read the spoilers. Tarathian has many intriguing ideas, any of which may pan out. But I have to say Bravo Brimfin for an elegant presentation of a fascinating theory. It seems like just the crafty stunt that a dastardly bastard like Old Man Weste would pull from his death bed. I hope it turns out to be true. Thank you Salzmank for keeping the puzzles coming. I still hold out hope of solving one of them eventually. Very welcome, Jervis, and thanks. Old Man Weste is indeed a dastardly bastard (wonderful, assonant phrasing!), and brimfin's solution is indeed excellent. Later today, I'll try to cement my thoughts and respond. Excellent work on Tarathian's puzzles, by the way! |
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 8, 2017 17:13:50 GMT
Nalkarj
If it's night-time go into the sun room. There will be no sun. If it's daytime wait until night falls and then do likewise.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 8, 2017 17:16:05 GMT
This one is probably easy, but there's a twist to it.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 8, 2017 17:16:24 GMT
Nalkarj
If it's night-time go into the sun room. There will be no sun. If it's daytime wait until night falls and tnen do likewise.
That's it! |
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 8, 2017 17:19:21 GMT
You've probably seen this.
This puzzle was written by a lady in California in 1890 in response to a guy in Philadelphia who said he would pay $1,000 to anyone who could write a puzzle he couldn't solve. He failed to solve it and promptly paid the lady. The answer is one word, and appears only four times in the Bible. There are five letters in the word.
Adam, God made out of dust,
but thought it was best to make me first.
So I was made before man
to answer God's most holy plan.
A living being I became
and Adam gave me my name.
I from his presence then withdrew
and more of Adam never knew.
I did my maker's law obey,
not ever went from it astray.
Thousands of miles I go in fear,
but seldom on earth appear.
For purposes wise which God did see,
He put a living soul in me.
A soul from me God did claim
and took from me the soul again.
So, when from me the soul had fled, I
was the same as when made.
And without hands or feet or soul,
I travel on from pole to pole.
I labor hard by day, by night,
to follow man to give him light.
Thousands of people young and old,
will by my death great light behold.
No right or wrong can I conceive,
the Scriptures I cannot believe.
Although my name therein is found.
They are to me an empty sound.
No fear of death doth trouble me,
real happiness I'll never see,
To Heaven I shall never go,
or to Hell below.
Now when these lines you slowly read,
so search your Bible with all speed
for that my name is there,
I do honestly to you declare.
WHO AM I???
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 8, 2017 17:25:37 GMT
No, I haven't seen the poem-puzzle. I'll put my thinking cap on.
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 8, 2017 17:26:16 GMT
NalkarjHow was a man shot to death in a country without guns, bows-and-arrows, or cameras?
Blowpipe perhaps?
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 8, 2017 17:32:15 GMT
Nalkarj How was a man shot to death in a country without guns, bows-and-arrows, or cameras?
Blowpipe perhaps?
No blowpipes. The very act of shooting is what caused his death, not the projectile that was shot, if that makes any sense--although the projectile does have a lot to do with it. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 8, 2017 17:47:12 GMT
Sorry to send in so many at once, but before I forget...
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 8, 2017 18:07:33 GMT
Nalkarj - Club password A wild guess. The pass number is 18
12 + 6 = 18
6 x 3 = 18
So when the doorman said 10 the answer should have been 8.
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Post by tarathian123 on Jun 8, 2017 18:14:43 GMT
General Election today. Have to go and vote. Cya later folks. Don't go away. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 8, 2017 18:48:40 GMT
Nalkarj - Club password A wild guess. The pass number is 18
12 + 6 = 18
6 x 3 = 18
So when the doorman said 10 the answer should have been 8. No kewpie doll, unfortunately, but you're generally on the right track. And we shall wait while you do your civic duty. |
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