Detective Riddles / Situation Puzzles

John was walking along the snow-covered field. When he came to a lonely tree, he saw the corpse of a man hanging on the tree. He died the last night from strangulation, but there were no traces around him, except John's ones.

Sherlock Holmes was walking down the corridor. Suddenly he heard a woman screaming, “Please, John, don’t kill me!” A shot rang. Holmes burst into the room. In one corner lay a dead woman and a gun. In another corner stood a postman, a lawyer, and an accountant. Sherlock looked at them, approached the postman, and grabbed him: “I will arrest you for killing this woman.” It was really the postman who killed this woman, but how could Holmes know it?

The German police was totally confused. Over the course of 15 years, the same person had been stealing, killing, and driving away. By 2008, they had spent 14 thousand working hours and over 15 million euros to find the criminal but failed. How did it happen? This is a true story.

Michael is in prison. One day, he has luch, goes to prison courtyard for a while and finally visits the library. At dusk, out of the reach of the security cameras, he changes his clothes. He then goes through the door to leave the prison, without being caught.

A man goes into a restaurant, orders albatross, eats one bite, and kills himself. Why?

After careful planning, five men break into a house and take thousands of dollars in cash from it. The owner of the house is the only person arrested.

In some city an amount of people injured in car accidents was very high. Then it was decided by administration to make the using of seat belts oblidatory. People started to obey this rule. But the amount of crash accidents remained the same. Moreover, the number of injured people who addressed to the hospital even increased.

A man woke up, lit a match and saw something that frightened him to death.

Bill was late for a birthday party and ended up in prison because of it. What happened?

Paul comes home tired. He goes to his room and turns off the light to sleep. After a while, feeling uneasy, he turns on the light and looks around. He turns the light back off and tries to sleep again. After repeating this several times, he takes a look under his bed and finds a dead body.

A naked man is lying dead in the middle of a desert with a match in his hand. What happened? A man is found dead in a desert. He is naked, and lots of clothes are scattered around him, among other things. There is a match in his hand. How did he die?

A man wearing a balaclava runs out of a museum carrying a painting under his arm. A police officer sees him, shoots him dead and commits suicide soon after. A couple of days later, the man with the painting is buried and named favorite son of the city.