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Lock, Stock and Three Dead Men
Emotion5
Lock, Stock and Three Dead Men
Lock, Stock and Three Dead Men
Three dead men sitting at a table in a room. On the table, there are playing cards and a gun. What happened?
79%
22 min.
6/10
Feb 2022
Shouldn’t have looked out of the window
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Shouldn’t have looked out of the window
Shouldn’t have looked out of the window
A man looked out of the window and soon died. What happened?
50%
5 min.
3/10
Feb 2022
Stand to the end
Emotion7
Stand to the end
Stand to the end
Mike has been standing on his knee in the middle of the desert for over a day. He is all alone and has neither food nor water. But he doesn’t leave the place. What’s the matter?
73%
21 min.
7/10
Jan 2022
The gift
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The gift
The gift
A dying man gives another man a gift, and then the dying man dies. Shortly after that the second man dies. How come?
71%
10 min.
3/10
Jan 2022
Arson
Emotion4
Arson
Arson
A woman in France in 1959 is waiting in her room, with all the doors locked from the inside, for her husband to come home. When he arrives, the house has burned to the ground and she's dead. How come?
30%
10 min.
7/10
Jan 2022
Death at Sea
Emotion7
Death at Sea
Death at Sea
A man sitting on a park bench reads a newspaper article headlined "Death at Sea" and knows a murder has been committed.
81%
23 min.
8/10
Jan 2022
The lady killed the lady
Emotion10
The lady killed the lady
The lady killed the lady
Two women are talking. One goes into the bathroom, comes out five minutes later, and kills the other.
65%
28 min.
9/10
Jan 2022
Misread
Emotion5
Misread
Misread
A woman misread something and never saw another person again.
78%
6 min.
4/10
Jan 2022
Radio silence
Emotion11
Radio silence
Radio silence
A man is driving his car while listening to the radio when suddenly the radio goes silent. He then decides to leave the road and throw himself off the top of a cliff.
80%
19 min.
8/10
Dec 2021
A blessing in disguise...
Emotion12
A blessing in disguise...
A blessing in disguise...
The girl’s mother died. The girl was burying her, and at the funeral she saw the man of her dreams and fell in love with him. 14 days later, she killed her sister. Why did she do that?
50%
20 min.
6/10
Sep 2021
The mysterious key
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The mysterious key
The mysterious key
Every night before going to sleep, Lisa locks the door of her house and attaches the key to a string. Why?
84%
13 min.
5/10
Jul 2021
The last wine
Emotion7
The last wine
The last wine
Camellia brought Valmont some wine. He looked at his watch, drank and died.
50%
53 min.
8/10
Apr 2021
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Here we have collected all the black stories with solutions. You may have heard about the homonymous board game before. Black Stories are often also called "Situation Puzzles”, "Dark Stories", "Lateral Thinking Exercises". You can sort these puzzles by rating or complexity level.