Riddles!

Wow that was seriously good.

Good to see Gant learned a lesson.

Can I post a riddle?

A man was found dead in his bedroom. He layed across the bed, front side up. The police found a gun in his hand. Instantly, the police assumed it was suicide. However, the detective comes in and finds a cassette player with a tape cassete inside. The detective pressed the play button on the cassete player. The last words of the dead man were recorded, “Life means nothing to me right now. Things would be better off if I were dead. . . BANG” At that moment, the detective concluded that the man was murdered.

How?

Heh, I’m better at posting mysteries than solving them… :stuck_out_tongue:

The way I see it, if the tape recorder was found on a table beside the bed, conclusion to the case being murder would be less likely, as it would seem normal in the case of a suicide.

However, if the voice inside the recorder was loud and explicitly clear, hinting that it was placed close to his mouth during the time of recording, furthermore, the victim was resting on the side of the bed that’s further away from the desk, it would not only be abnormal, as one who desires to record his voice would place himself near the recorder, but also, the voice should not had been that clear with the distance between him and the device.

If the recorder was placed in his other hand, then it shouldn’t had been suspicious, unless signs of adjustment to his limb had been found.

Then, there’s the obvious. The tape did not require a rewind to play his final words, since you claimed that the detective pushed the ‘play’ button without pressing the ‘rewind’ button first, meaning that someone had came in and rewound the tape before. The Police wouldn’t had touched such evidence, either, especially if they knew that a detective was coming to the crime scene, unless you are to claim that an Inspector had already examined the tape, which would eliminate the possibility I stated above.

Also, it seems like the man has a poor sense of grammar before his death as well. “…if I was dead” or “…if I am to be dead,” not “I were.” Then again, that could be just you, TSS. :stuck_out_tongue:

wiggles finger in Conan style Tsk, tsk, tsk, and that’s just the beginning of my deduction.

oh…boy…lost one here… :laughing:

Wboon has got it figured it out there. How can the man rewind and record his suicide if he was already dead? Someone must’ve rewound the tape to make it seem like a suicide.

^ Ha! I’ve heard that riddle before! It’s awesome!

Now for a riddle I heard from my Sunday School teacher. It took us AGES to figure it out.

A man was accused of murdering his wife, named Love. In the courtroom, he offered to claim he was guilty if the police could find out what he did with his wife. The only clue he gave was this strange riddle.

Love I sit, Love I stand
Love I hold fast in my hand.
I can see Love, but she can’t see me.
Answer this riddle, and hanged I will be.

In the end, the police could not figure out what happened to his wife, so he was set free.

Do you know what happened to his wife?

Haystack

I get this feeling that this “Love” character might not be a human at all, but maybe something else.

Taku, this one’s rather puzzling. But, considering this is a riddle from a Sunday School Teacher, it shouldn’t be as complex as it seems.

First of all, if the term ‘Love’ is referring to his wife under the same name, then the riddle hints that the wife is under somewhere we stand upon, implicated by the term, ‘stand.’ In this case, it means that the wife is buried somewhere, and maybe the man threw his wife into the dug hole very quickly. This is further proven by the third verse which implicated that the man had perception of his wife but the same could not be said for his wife. Then again, that could just mean that the wife was blindfolded or - the more obvious fact, she was dead, and the dead can’t see.

The verse I don’t understand is
Love I hold fast in my hand.

I was thinking that maybe the ‘fast’ was referring to a fastened knot or a similar object, but then, as I stated, it should not be that complex. Regardless, this hinted that the man came in little contact with his wife, ignoring the method he used in killing her.

Then, there’s the other possibility mentioned by The Star Swordsman; Love be a non-human entity. Of course, that is to say that the riddle be mixed with metaphorical elements, as in the sense that ‘Love’ represents the compassionate feeling from or for his wife.

If the case be the latter one, then it could mean that his wife ‘loves’ where he sit and stand, and from those positions, he was able to hold something and, he was able to see his wife but she couldn’t do the same.

Sigh. In the end, I still don’t get what the second verse means. Looks like it will be a while before anyone solves this. Well, if this riddle passes a considerate amount of time without being solved, then you might as well reveal the answer as I did, Haystack. :wink:

I’ll bet the koko sen tantei would had been able to solve this in an instant… :laughing:

Well, let me see if i can break it down.

THe first line, the sit and stand first made me think of a chair. But then, it is a living thing, so it must be something that can sit as well as stand (maybe on it two hind legs instead of actual human legs).

The second line suggests that the man holds Love in his had, for somthing to do with his hand.

THe third line suggests that he can see Love (maybe from his hand) every day, but since Love is supposedly dead, she can’t see him. So what can you see on your hand, but it can’t see you? Maybe a mole or finger nail, or a glove.

THat’s all I got for now.

In the end, TSS came closest to the answer. The answer to the riddle is [spoil]he made a rocking-chair out of her bones.[/spoil] Creepy, huh?

Haystack

Taku, what does that have to do with the man holding ‘Love’ fast in his hand? :\

Ah, well, next riddle!

Well, when you stand up from a chair, you tend to grip the armrests to help you up. Yeah, my SS teacher had to explain it to us, too. :unamused:

Um, why do you keep on calling me Taku? :confused:

Haystack

Iie, if I am to assume that the man be an old man due to him, well, using a rocking chair and you claiming that he needs help getting up when sitting down, then he would need to grab the armrests longer as it would require the exertion of a good amount of energy, unless you claim that he manages to get up without holding the armrest for long, which is unlikely because then it would mean he barely needs their assist at all.

Basically, it might not had been ‘slow’ but it would not be ‘fast’ either.

Oh, and “taku” is just a Japanese word for expressing annoyance. :laughing: Like, “meh,” or “aw man.” And “iie” is “no” in Japanese (not calling you a liar in my first sentence…).

I have a riddle. Anyone want to hear it or do you all want someone else to give one?

Sure go ahead…

If you satisfy my hunger, I shall grow.
If you quench my thirst, I shall shrink.

Fire.

It grows when it engulfs.
It shrivels when watered.

If I am wrong, please give more clues, please. :stuck_out_tongue:

You got it right there WBoon. :smiley:

Alright, here’s a simple murder case I told my classmates about. They didn’t manage to solve it, but they found it to be intriguing as well.

And don’t worry, this one will be a shorter one compared to the last ‘case.’

On a plane, a young actress, Jodie Ellsworth, boarded a private jet to New York with some of her close acquaintances. On the way, she was sitting beside Inspector Aaron (Yay! Reoccurring characters!) who was invited on the trip as an appreciation for solving the last case which her son, Sager Paten was involved in. Her make-up artist, Rachel Doze, was sitting directly behind her, while her personal secretary, Maria Stone, was sitting diagonally to the left behind her (to the left of the make-up artist).

Others sitting near Miss Ellsworth were the Inspector’s daughter, Serena Russo, sitting directly behind Rachel Doze, Starker Johnson, a wealthy businessman sitting to the right of Ms Ellsworth with a walkway separating them, and Gopher Torey, Ms Ellsworth’s close friend sitting to the right of Mr Johnson.

As the trip went on, Ms Ellsworth suddenly excused herself to the restroom for about a minute before returning to her seat. Not long after, the passengers were offered a piece of chocolate each. Everyone ate them delightfully, even Ms Ellsworth who found her piece to be ‘finger-licking good.’

Nevertheless…

Some time later, Ms Ellsworth was found… dead. She collapsed from her seat, ceased to be breathing anymore.

How did she die and who was the culprit?

She died of poison and the culprit was the makup designer who poisoned her fingers so that when she ate the cake it entered into her stomach and poisoned her.

It was Rachel Doze!