Easy situation puzzles

Roger sees the light and he becomes paralyzed. Soon after that he dies.

A woman is looking through the window and sees a man with a knife. However, she does not have enough time to call the police before being murdered.

Matthew keeps reading a bedtime story to his son despite the blackout.

A woman asks a driver to take her home. The whole way she talks, too much. The taxist tells her: "I'm sorry but I am deaf." The woman falls silent. But when she goes out of the taxi, she understands that the driver isn't deaf.

A man kills his brother in front of a crowd of people. However, no one reports him.

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.

One day, I felt fed up with my younger sister’s bleat. So, I killed her and threw her body into a well. The next day, the body disappeared. A few years later, I quarreled with a friend over a trifle and decided to kill him too and to throw his body into the well. The next day, the body disappeared. Later, I was drunk and accidentally impregnated a girl. I killed her and threw her into the same well. The next day, her body disappeared, as all the others did. 10 years later, my boss drove me nuts. I killed him and disposed of the body in the same well. A day later, his body disappeared. Shortly thereafter, I needed to send my mom to a nursing home, but I didn’t have enough money for that, so I killed her and threw her into the well. The next day, the body was still there. Why?

A little girl was crying bitterly in a barn. Through her tears, she noticed an old lamp lying in the garbage. She took it and dusted it off. Suddenly a genie appeared and said: "I’ll fulfill one of your wishes. But only one, so think it over." "Please make my parents disappear!" the girl said through tears, "I hate them!" "Consider it done," replied the genie. "Go to bed, and in the morning your wish will be fulfilled." The next morning, the girl woke up and went down to the kitchen. She found her mom and dad sitting at the kitchen table having breakfast. The girl immediately regretted her wish. She rushed into the barn and began to rub the lamp. The genie appeared and said, "Well, are you happy now?" "Please cancel my yesterday’s wish," the girl pleaded. "I'm sorry," the genie replied. "But once a wish is made, I can’t cancel it." And the girl burst into bitter tears. Why?

A mother-in-law disliked her son-in-law so much that she wanted to poison him. But the son-in-law was careful and always ate only what his mother-in-law ate. Over dinner one night, the mother-in-law cut a piece of meat in half, ate one half herself, and gave the other to her son-in-law. After that he died. How did she manage to do it?

Four college students were late for a lecture and explained it to the lecturer by having a flat tire. The smart lecturer quickly proved to the rest of the audience that the latecomers had lied. How?

Sherlock Holmes had a secret room, and the key to it was in a chest of drawers. He didn’t let anyone in there – neither Dr. Watson, nor Mrs. Hudson. But when Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson left, Mrs. Hudson decided to see what was in the room, took the key, opened the room, and entered. She walked around the room, approached a table, opened a book lying on it. Suddenly, she heard footsteps downstairs, and Holmes’s voice, “I forgot something.” Mrs. Hudson quickly closed the book, put it back, went to the door, turned off the light, left the room, closed the door, and managed to put the key back. Holmes took the key, opened the door, looked into the room, and immediately asked, “Mrs. Hudson, why did you enter my room?” How did Holmes know that Mrs. Hudson had entered his room?

Two monkeys are looking through a pipe that happened to be in a glade. The pipe is straight, not too long and not clogged. Monkeys look through the opposite ends of the pipe, but don’t see each other there. Why?