Do you like Riddles? I love them and like to try and solve them so I decided this week my post would be Mystery Question ~ Riddles. But first, the photo and verse. This is a photo I took probably twenty-five years ago at Arkabutler Lake in Coldwater, Mississippi. That lake has the best catfish and crappie anywhere! And I love the verse and have found if I do what it says, I don’t feel so anxious. I don’t know about you, but COVID has gone past old to I wish I would never hear the word again! How about you?
Now for last week’s Mystery Questions ~ Hilarious Getaways. Three of the stories are true, one is made-up. Can you guess which one is not true?
- A man decided he was too drunk to drive home from Walmart and was afraid of getting a DUI. He decided he would drive one of their motorized shopping carts home. Police found the cart parked in front of a bar half a mile away and arrested him.
- After a man robbed a bank, he left in his wheelchair and was last seen motoring down a nearby street, his legs wrapped in bandages, and his right leg sticking straight out while he zoomed away. He is still at-large.
- A woman was cashing a check in a bank when armed robbers stormed in. She was so frightened she ran out of the bank and jumped into a running car…yep, she’d taken the robbers stolen get-away car.
- After a man loaded three bottles of whiskey in a motorized cart, he opened one and imbibed as he drove around the store. That gave him the courage to escape out the front door. Police found him two blocks from the store after the battery on the cart died. The man was passed out under a tree.
And the answer is…#4. It was really hard to come up with one that’s as crazy as the true ones. lol. Congrats to those who guessed #4!
Now for this week’s Mystery Question ~ Riddles. I came across these as I researched something for the book I’m working on, and they fascinated me and I thought my readers would enjoy the challenge of solving them.
1. Deadly Chemicals
A renowned chemist is found dead in his lab. There is no clear evidence except a piece of paper lying by the body. The paper is blank other than the name of five elements scrawled across it hastily:
- Nickel
- Carbon
- Oxygen
- Lanthanum
- Sulfur
The guard reported that three people visited the chemist that day – his sister, Lanaya, his colleague, Nicolas, and his wife, Teresa.
The criminal was arrested immediately. Who was it?
2. The Murder at High School
The science teacher at Jefferson High School is murdered on the first day of the academic year. The police narrow down the suspects to four members of the school – the gardener, the coach, the math teacher, and the principal. However, they all have alibis:
- The gardener says he was trimming the bushes
- The coach says he was playing basketball
- The math teacher says he was conducting a mid-year test
- The principal says he was in a meeting
The police had no trouble in arresting the person guilty of the crime. Who do you think was the murderer?
Friend Turned Foe
Amy goes to her friend, Maria’s house, on a wintry evening only to find her dead. When the police learn about the incident, they question Amy how she found out. Amy says that she knocked on the door and rang the bell repeatedly. Since the light was on in one of the rooms, Amy knew Maria must be home and decided to look through the window.
The windows were frozen, so she breathed on the iced glass, and that’s when she noticed Maria’s body on the floor.
The police suspect Amy is the murderer. Are they correct? Or is it just one of those riddles with no definite answer?
Okay, Mystery Sleuths, leave the answer to one or all three in the comments and I’ll enter you in a drawing for a book from my library! Be sure to leave your answer before reading the others. 🙂
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Comments 44
These were fun mini mysteries. Here are my guesses:
1. Nicolas
2. Math teacher
3. The police are correct because Amy breathed on the wrong side of the glass to be able to clear the ice.
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Hi Priscilla! Good job. I’m so glad you enjoyed these…I think I have a few more up my sleeve. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by.
Hi, beautiful picture and verse. I love the praise verses in the Psalms, I love to read and pray them.
I love fresh caught catfish dipped in cornmeal batter and deep fried or grilled and blackened or just any way with some fried okra on the side. Ummm!
Now to the puzzles:
#1- NiCOLaS
#2- The math teacher
#3- Amy is the killer
I hope these are correct.
Thank you for these puzzles, you help stretch this old brain.
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Thanks, Pearl. I love putting verses and photos together. And if I’m eating catfish or crappie, it’s going to be deep-fried. lol Glad to stretch the old brain. lol
1. Nicolas. 2. Math teacher. 3. Don’t live in area that gets snow or much ice, but pretty sure ice would be on same side as condensation, so Amy is definitely the killer or a magician! Yes, that was fun!
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Hi Monique! Yes, it’s probably not a good idea to tell the police you tried to get frost off that way. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by.
Nicolas, Math teacher, and Amy is guilty.
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Yep, Delores, you are correct. Thanks for stopping by and have a safe journey!
I concur that Nicolas, the math teacher (You don’t give a mid-year test on the first day of an academic year), and Amy (breathing on the glass from the outside would probably just have frozen more if the temperatures were freezing) were the guilty parties.
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Good catches, Suzanne! Thanks for stopping by!
1. Nicholas
2. Coach…because football is when school starts not basketball
3. Amy…wrong side of glass frosted
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Hi Lucy! Hmmm, I hadn’t thought about the coach playing basketball instead of football but maybe he wasn’t coaching but playing. But it’s another way of looking at the problem and that kind of kills his alibi. Thanks for stopping by!
Pat, I think you made this one too easy. I’m with the majority:
1. NiCOLaS (symbols)
2, Math teacher (wrong time of year for that test)
3. Amy is the murderer (Breath on iced window will add to the ice)
COVID can’t go away soon enough!
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Hi Tim! I didn’t make these up…this deadline is killing me so I’m afraid I’m taking the easy way out. 🙂 But I thought they might stretch your mind a little. Let’s see next week if I can make them harder…thanks for stopping by!
Nicolas, the math teacher and I don’t know.
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Hi Sally Jo! Finished your book, Autumn Vindication last night and loved it! Will be reviewing it Friday!! Thanks for stopping by!
1. Nicholas
2. The math teacher
3. I’m not sure
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Hi Elizabeth! Two out of three is not bad! So glad you stopped by.
These were fun! #1, the murderer was Nicolas, #2 the math teacher did it, and #3 Amy is guilty and murdered her friend.
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Hi Megan! Three out of three! Yay. Thanks for stopping by.
1 Nicolas, 2. The math teacher and 3 Yes she is guilty
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Great job, Patricia! I’m probably going to do this again next week if I can find puzzles I like that are a little harder. 🙂
Nicolas, math teacher and no experience with breathing on frozen windows.
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The answer to #3 must be nice, Gloria! Thanks for dropping by!
These riddles are fun. I would say Nicholas, the math teacher, and Amy are guilty. The picture is really pretty. That’s one of my favorite Psalms.
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I love that Psalm, Erika! So glad you enjoyed it and the riddles. Thanks for stopping by.
I chose my answers and then scrolled through the answers left by everyone else. It’s almost unanimous this time. I say Nicolas, the math teacher, and Amy. I noticed someone commented about it being the wrong season for basketball. Basketball players play all year long. I leave my house on Sunday morning to go to church and there is a large group of guys across at the basketball court playing basketball in the heat of the summer.
You should send some of your sunrise pictures to the Weather Channel for their Sunday morning show. I can’t remember the hashtag – maybe something like #SundaySunrise
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I’ll try to find some harder ones for next week, Edward. But I thought they were fun and different from the regular blog. I’m bad to shake things up. lol. I may send some of my sunrise photo’s to the Weather Channel! Thanks for the suggestion. 🙂
Nicolas was the killer, the elements spell out his name. the math teacher because he said it was a mid term and it was the first day of classes and I don’t know the third one.
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Paula, do you live where it doesn’t get that cold? That’s what I’ve noticed for those who don’t know the third one. 🙂 But congrats on the other two! Thanks for stopping by.
Nicolas, the math teacher and Amy is guilty.
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Good, Alicia! Thanks for stopping by.
1. Lanaya
2. Math teacher
3. Amy is the murderer
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Caryl, I think the answer to the first one is Nicolas. 🙂 But the other two are spot on! Thanks for stopping by!
1, Nicholas,2 math teacher 3 Amy killed her
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Good job, Shelia! Thanks for stopping by!
1. Nicolas, 2. Math teacher, 3. Amy is the killer – If the windows were frozen and the temperature freezing, I think her breath would have put more ice on the glass.
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Absolutely, Diana. I think most of the ones who don’t know the answer to #3 live in the deep South where it doesn’t freeze. 🙂
Ok, so this is my thinking…..for question #1, I’m guessing the chemicals are a clue to the muderer. So I will go with Nicolas deducting that name from the first letter of each named chemical.
Question #2: I’m guessing the math teacher was the murderer because it was only the first day of the acedemic year…he could not have been doing a MID-year test.
Question #3: I would guess Amy is the murderer because I don’t believe that her breath would be warm enough to melt the frost off the window in order to see inside.
There’s my logic anyway 🙂 And yay, for correctly guessing the answer to last’s weeks mystery!
Yes I agree 100%, I’m SO over Covid! It’s messed up this year enough already & it’s more than gotten it’s 15 minutes of fame 🙁
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Yes, Trixi, COVID has gotten more than its 15 minutes of fame! Love your logic on the quizzes. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
#1, Nicholas, b/c of the acronym; 2 Math teacher b/c it was the 1st day of school, & you give a mid term then! & Amy is guilty b/c being on the outside of the window & blowing on it would not clear it enough to see her “friend” on the floor!
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Very good, MS Barb! Thanks for stopping by!
Fun riddles! 1. Nicholas 2. The math teacher 3. No definite answer?
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Hi Mallori! Glad you like my riddles! If you read the Tuesday September 15 blog, you’ll see the answer to #3. 🙂 Thanks for stopping in!