Situation puzzles inspired by real events

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Exam
Jekzamen 2
Exam
Exam
Students are taking an exam at military academy. One of them chooses a ticket and goes to his seat to get prepared. After some minutes he goes to the professor, silently gives him the student's record-book and leaves the classroom. The student got the excellent.
75%
15 min.
7/10
Mar 2018
Ransom in the call-box
Vykup v budke 2
Ransom in the call-box
Ransom in the call-box
The son of a rich man was kidnapped. The kidnapper wanted the rich man to bring and put the expensive diamond into the call-box located in a city park. Policemen surrounded this park, intending to catch the criminal. The father of the kidnapped child came to the call-box and did everything the kidnapper said to him, but the police could not prevent the cunning criminal from taking the diamond out of the call-box. They didn't grab the villian as well. What did he do?
83%
9 min.
6/10
Feb 2018
Happy death
Emotion3
Happy death
Happy death
Beulah died in the Appalachians, while Craig died at sea. Everyone was much happier with Craig's death. How come?
83%
9 min.
5/10
Jan 2022
Lost
Poterjannyj 12
Lost
Lost
Jack goes on a trip with his compass. After a long walk, he stops to eat a sandwich. He is not able to find his way back afterwards.
78%
12 min.
4/10
Mar 2018
Green lipstick
Zelenaya pomada 211
Green lipstick
Green lipstick
Every day he puts on green lipstick. But almost no one notices it.
82%
18 min.
6/10
Aug 2019
Savages also can be clever
Dikari tozhe umnye 232
Savages also can be clever
Savages also can be clever
Aborigines lived on an island in the middle of the ocean. However, they found a way to get rich. How did they do it?
71%
32 min.
9/10
Feb 2021
The Chase
Radio
The Chase
The Chase
A man is running, a crowd is running after him. The man is screaming to the crowd:"You will never see the gold!" and he starts shooting. People who observe all that are exulting.
55%
7 min.
5/10
Jan 2018
Burning Island
Pozhar na ostrove 5
Burning Island
Burning Island
A man is stranded on an island covered in forest. One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process. There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off. How can the man survive the fire? (There are no buckets or any other means to put out the fire)
52%
18 min.
7/10
Feb 2018
The Train
Po shpalam 4
The Train
The Train
The man was walking along the rails and suddenly he saw a train coming towards him. Then he ran like hell to meet the approaching train.
65%
13 min.
4/10
Jan 2018
Seat belts
Remni bezopasnosti 15
Seat belts
Seat belts
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.
75%
6 min.
4/10
Feb 2018
Similar devices
Pohozhie ustrojstva 9
Similar devices
Similar devices
Two devices are commonly used by people. They are created for the same purpose. But one of them has lots of details and another does not has any. What are these things?
68%
18 min.
6/10
Feb 2018
A fantom
Emotion7
A fantom
A fantom
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.
77%
36 min.
8/10
Mar 2022
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