Answers to yesterday’s riddle

by Helmi Hakim | Feb 6, 2008 | Miscellaneous

Here are the answers to yesterday’s riddle.

Enjoy 🙂

1. The sisters are Siamese twins.

2. She stood on a block of ice to hang herself.

3. A fire fighting plane filled its tanks with water from a lake, sucking a scuba-diver in (Is this an urban legend, or did I see this on the news?). He drown while the plane was in flight and was dumped onto a burning forest with the water.

4. Poisoned ice cubes in the drinks: one man drinks slowly, giving them time to melt, but the other man drinks fast and doesn’t get much of the poison.

5. His lives on a houseboat, and was out to sea when he ran of drinking water.

6. He is running to deliver a pardon, and the flickering lights indicate the convict to be pardoned has just been electrocuted.

7. They’re what’s left of a melted snowman.

8. The woman is a midget. She can’t reach the upper elevator buttons, but she can ask people to push them for her. She can also push them with her umbrella.

9. They were skydiving, and she was unconscious. He pulled the ripcord ring for her, and the parachute opened.

10. He was an astronaut on a space walk, doing repairs.

11. Her husband was cremated, and she tried to pour his ashes into the ocean, but it’s a windy day, and his ashes blow back into the boat.

12. His brother is his Siamese twin, and since they share common organs, he cannot survive alone.

13. He was in the car in the garage, trying to kill himself with the carbon dioxide from the engine running.

14. The movie was at a drive-in theater, and their car had tinted windows.

15. He worked at a factory. His clothing got caught on a piece of machinery, dragged him in, and killed him.

16. The cars he passed were going in the opposite direction.

17. He was the lighthouse keeper, and turned off the light, causing a ship to wreck on the rocks.

18. The window he was looking out was on an airplane, and the goose was being sucked into the engine,causing the plane to crash.

19. She was on a hospital elevator, and her husband was on life support, which would also fail when the power went out.

20. The plane was sitting on the runway.

21. She was the assistant to a knife-thrower in a circus, and the new shoes made her stand two inches higher, throwing off the aim of the performer.

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Exercise Your Brain…

by Helmi Hakim | Feb 5, 2008 | Miscellaneous

I like to exercise my brain.

I read brain teasers when I feel bored.

It keeps me active. 🙂

I will post some teasers here,from time to time.

You guess the answers, and the next day, I will post the answers.

Happy Chinese New Year! 🙂

1. A woman proves in court that her husband was murdered by her sister, but the judge decides that the sister cannot be punished. Why?

2. A woman is found hanging by her neck from the high ceiling in an otherwise empty locked room with a puddle of water under her feet. How did she kill herself?

3. A man is lying drowned in a dead forest, far from water. How did this happen?

4. Two men are served identical drinks at the bar. One lives, but the other dies. Why?

5. A man dies of dehydration in his own home. Why?

6. A man runs along a hall with a piece of paper. When the lights flicker, he drops to his knees and begins to cry. Why?

7. A pipe, a carrot, and a couple sticks are lying together in a field. Why?

8. A woman lives on the tenth floor of an apartment building. Every morning she takes the elevator all the way down, and goes to work. In the evening, she gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in it she goes back to her floor directly. Otherwise, she goes to the seventh floor and walks up three flights of
stairs to her apartment. Why?

9. A man grabbed a woman’s ring and pulled on it, then dropped it. How did this save her life?

10. A man was just doing his job when his suit was torn. Why did he die three minutes later?

11. A woman tries to drop her husband into the ocean, but he blows back into the boat. Why?

12. A man wakes up and sees that his brother is dead. Though they are alone in a quiet room, he immediately realizes that he will be dead soon too. How does he know this?

13. Why did running out of gas save Jacks life?

14. A married couple went to a movie and the husband strangled the wife during the show. How was he able to get her body home without attracting attention?

15. A man was doing his job when his clothing tore. Why was he dead ten seconds later?

16. Why was the man able to pass three cars going 70 miles-per-hour, while he was going only 60 milesper-hour?

17. A man woke up in the middle of the night and turned off the light. Ten people died as result. Why?

18. A man saw a large goose through while looking out the window. Why were both he and the goose soon dead?

19. A woman was on an elevator. When it stopped, and the lights went out, she began to cry, knowing that her husband was dead. How did she know?

20. A man was pushed out of an airplane, without a parachute. How was he able to survive?

21. A woman bought new shoes, and shortly afterwards died from a knife-wound. Why?

Happy solving 🙂

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