06 October 2013

Brain-Teaser/Puzzles

1. Unlock The Distance Puzzle
  
Distances from you to certain cities are written below.
BERLIN 200 miles
PARIS 300 miles
ROME 400 miles AMSTERDAM 300 miles
CARDIFF ??? miles
 

How far should it be to Cardiff?


2. Sherlock Holmes Murder Mystery

Sherlock breaks into a crime scene. The victim is the owner who is slumped dead on a chair and have a bullet hole in his head. A gun lies on the floor and a cassette recorder is found on the table. On pressing the play button, Sherlock hears the message 'I have committed sins in my life and now I offer my soul to the great lord....following a gunshot.
Sherlock smiles Of-course its a murder.

Why did he think so?



3. Tricky Murder Mystery

Four boys were playing a game in which they need to throw the stone in the water so that the stone at don't
get sunk into the water(there is some solid area in water).

Boy1: Succeeded in throwing 2 stones at solid area but 1 of the stone sunk.
Boy3: All stones got sunk.
Boy4: None of the stones got sunk.

Boy2 was the winner but was struck by a stone in the head and died.

Who killed Boy2?



4. Prison Break

Two prisoners 'Lincoln Burrows' and 'Michael Scofield' are locked in a cell.
There is open window approx 30 feet above the ground of the cell.
They are never able to reach there.

Then they plan to escape by a tunnel and they start digging out.
After digging for more than 20 days, Scofield comes with the different plan and they escaped.

what was the plan ?



5. No Uninvited Guest

Queen Elizabeth organized a royal party.

To Avoid uninvited guest royal family set a password.
Wayne (an uninvited person) plan to enter the party. He stood nearby the door.

First guest comes, the security person said 'twelve' and guest replied with six.
Second guest comes , the security person said 'six' and guest replied with 'three'.

Wayne thought is enough and he walked to the entry point. The security person said 'eight' , Wayne replied smilingly 'four'.
He was immediately thrown out of the party.



why ?


Solution: 

1. Unlock The Distance Puzzle 
100 miles. Each vowel is worth 300 and each consonant is worth -100. These are totaled in each city name to give the distance

2. Sherlock Holmes Murder Mystery
How can a dead person rewind back the tape himself ?

3. Tricky Murder Mystery
Boy1, he was left with one stone


4. Prison Break
They use the dirt and bricks from the tunnel and stand on it then one on top of the other.

5. No Uninvited Guest
'five'
password is not half , rather the sum of digit.