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Following criminals’ trail, a police inspector entered a chess club. Assessing the situation, he told his assistants, “Detain those two!”
How did he guess?
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?
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?
A prisoner was put in an escape-proof cell and told that he would be pardoned if he could break out. He was also given permission to keep any plants he wished in his cell. He was released in less than a week. How did he di it?
A man comes up to the border of a neighboring country on his motorcycle. The customs officer at the border crossing stops him and searches the man. He finds nothing so he lets him cross. The next day the same thing happens. This goes on every day for several months.
Then one day, the man doesnʼt show up. The border official meets up with him in a restaurant in the city. The officer says, “I know youʼre smuggling something and itʼs driving me crazy. Itʼs all I think about. I canʼt even sleep. Just between you and me, what are you
smuggling?” What is the man smuggling?
Micheal and his wife were having a heated argument that lasted hours. After some time they both left the house to go outside. Neither of them ever returned.
A person called the police and told them to ask about John K. Upon arrival at John’s house, the police found him dead. Examining the corpse, the police discovered severe injuries. But the apartment was in perfect order, without any signs of a struggle or break-in.
An artist took an order to paint a portrait of a very ugly and arrogant woman. Everyone tried to dissuade him, claiming that she wouldn’t pay a penny, because the portrait would be bad. And so it happened. But two days later, the woman returned and begged the artist to sell her the portrait. Why?
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