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Here's another riddle!

Posted by flashman16 - February 3rd, 2008


Since people responded in large numbers with my last set of riddles I made up this Murder Mystery one! Here it is...

It is the 1950s, in the middle of winter, there is a manor on a hillside in the country. The famous inspector Herlock Sholmes is called to solve a murder case (Sherlock Holmes was busy at the time), the Lady Adele has been murdered in the middle of a frosty night, she was an unkindly old woman in her late sixties, she was discovered in the lounge with a single stab wound in the back. The Inspector interrogates the three suspects, they are the Butler, who was at the receiving end of the Ladies anger and was made to do the most ridiculous tasks (one was to measure the chimney from the inside, then his pay was docked when he got covered in soot), the Maid who was forced to literally clean the entire Manor from top to bottom, then made to do it all again because of one speck of dust, this happened every single day, and the gardener, who was given a very small pair of scissors to cut the grass to make sure it was even. This took nearly 3 days to complete as there was a lot of land with the manor, and more than often he was made to do it all over again due to one mistake.
Herlock gets 3 alibi's each from the three suspects

The Butler: It was late at night, I was made to measure each room in the house to make sure that there was an even number of centimetres in each room, naturally I thought that was stupid and so I took the Letter opener knife and opened the Ladies mail for the day. All she received was bills. At around midnight I heard a scream and rushed downstairs to find her body in the Lounge. The Lady was never a nice woman but she didn't deserve to die like that...

The Gardener: I was very tired, I just finished the 3rd plot of land with these scissors, I mean look at them! they're tiny!, anyway, I was walking back when I thought I heard a scream, so I went up to the window where the scream came from (I had to wipe off the frost to see inside) and there was her body, I went inside to see if it was true and it really was, they say that people look asleep when they're dead, but the Lady just looked dead, dead and cold...

The Maid: I was finishing the chores the Lady set me, I was cleaning the windows then I picked up the clothing scissors to cut some fray threads from my Mistresses clothes, It was very late at night when I heard a scream, I dropped down the scissors and ran downstairs into the lounge, and there she was, lying there in the middle of the room. I lit the fire for you Inspector before you came in since the room was so cold...

Herlock acknowledges that all suspects are very likely to have murdered Lady Adele, however he takes one minute to decide then places one of the three people under arrest for murder, who is it and why?

RULES: This is a classic Who-Dunnit?, one of the three killed the Lady, you MUST give the correct person AND the correct reason of why their alibi is a complete pile of shit.
If you give the correct person but the wrong reeason then your whole answer is marked as wrong, and vice versa, the only way you will win and go on to the scoreboard (coming soon) is to give the correct person AND the correct reason.

So, WHO DUNNIT?
SOLVED by LOLZILLA and kid
Looks like this riddles solved, while I check up on who goes on, and make the scoreboard why dont you all try to solve this joke riddle
you have ten horses and nine stables (the nine stables are shown in the pic) how do fit the ten horses in the nine stables, each stable is one horse big and all ten horses must be in the stables
Now I will put up the scoreboard, the puzzle was SOLVED by meneldil

Here's another riddle!


Comments

I believe his name was Sherlock Holmes
not Herlock Shomes XD

Keep reading

Ah shit
I just finish reading the end of the sentence = \
sorry my bad

Ah well, figured out who dunnit yet?

always the fucking butler.

I KNEW SOMBODY WOULD SAY THAT!!! I BLOODY KNEW IT!!!
still wrong since you didn't say why

the gardener said "she looked.... dead and cold"
was she murdered outside as there was frost on the windows
that is my theory

nice theory, but if she was killed outside then why didn't the killer simply hide the body in the woods or something like that, instead of going through the trouble of dragging the body into the house. Anyway the lady was in the lounge when she was killed, the Butler and Maid came in almost right after the lady screamed, so the scream came from inside the house. The lady looked cold since the maid said that "... since the room was so cold..."
Keep trying though!

Well... there are many clues that point to the gardener.

It's kind of weird that the gardener could tell which room it came from, especially being outside in the cold, with such a big house. It's one thing to hear it from upstairs, as it would echo through the house, especially in a mansion. But hearing it outside? It also doesn't state how close to the house he was. He could have been pretty far away, and it would be hard to assume what room the scream came from, he could at most just tell which direction.

He was also the only one who "thought" they heard a scream. The other two distinctly heard it. The other two raced down to where they believe they heard the scream, and they most likely knew what room she was in, both being in the house... The gardener wouldn't know where she was if he was out cutting the grass.

There's also the fact that the maid lit the fire because it was so cold. The gardener most likely came in through the window of the lounge so he could sneak up on her and stab her in the back with less of a chance of anyone else (maid, butler...) seeing him, which they could if he ran out through a door which would most likely be in front of the stairs or some other common room. The butler and maid didn't have to come through a window, they were already inside.

You certainly have been reading very closely to the text, but we already discovered that it was the gardener who killed Lady Adele, and your saying that the gardener climbed in through the window? that is a clever answer but wrong i'm afraid, you see, if it was so cold out then the window would be firmly closed wouldn't it?, if the gardener did somehow open the closed window from outside then the Lady would have noticed since she was awake at the time (how else would she have screamed?) and how are you so sure that the gardener really WAS outside at the time of the murder, remember that three alibi's are just that ALIBI'S, whether they are true or not is a different matter.
However, you are getting close, here's a tip, it IS something to do with the coldness of the lounge...

Well, the only other thing I would have thought of would be that the frost would be on the inside of the window, so the gardener couldn't wipe it off. But the fact that the maid said the room was cold, frost wouldn't be very likely to form on the window in the first place since it involves having water vapor condensing and then rapidly freezing when it touches the below-freezing window. If the room was cold, the air wouldn't be able to hold much moisture, and it wouldn't be likely to create frost. And if the room was cold, it would be equally likely for frost to form on both sides of the window as long as there's moisture.

But saying that there couldn't be frost wouldn't make sense either. Why would the gardener put that phrase in if there wasn't frost on the window? That's just a pointless fact to make up. He could just say he looked in the window. Why make your story more complicated when there's nothing to gain?

If the detective is noting the fact that the window NOW has frost on the inside, in his investigation, and that the gardener must have been lying about wiping it away, he's making a false assumption based on different circumstances. Since the woman had the window closed, and the gardener didn't come through the window, the room must have been that cold from the beginning. Especially since the maid didn't mention anything about closing a window or door or anything. So whatever way the gardener left, he closed it as soon as he left, which wouldn't have been very long, certainly not long enough to change the temperature of all the air in the room enough that the maid would light a fireplace.

Unless the maid is lying too, and the room wasn't cold.

You actually solved it, then you went on for nearly three paragraphs to show how your answer was wrong, why?
anyway this is the 1950s, so a big house like this would not have any central heating (apart from the fire which wasn't lit at the time of murder) so the room would be below freezing since it was in the middle of winter, and due to the large amount of moisture breathing gives out there would be plenty of moisture in the air in the lounge, it is a common room to sit and relax in. In these big mansions and houses from days long gone the frost gathers on the inside and outside of the windows when the air is very cold, and it was since it was in the middle of winter with no central heating (hardly any houses had it then, as far as I know), so even if the gardener wiped the frost from the outside then the inside frost would be left untouched, Herlock would have known this from training and so put the gardener under arrest, that is why I made all the people say how cold the room was, to alert people of the frost on the inside of the window. you get the point since you solved it, you will see your name on the scoreboard with everybody else who got my riddles, and will get my future riddles. Well done!

there were two small horses?

that is the wrong answer

there were two small horses?
sorry if this appears twice
damn server said it could not be sent

two wrongs dont make a right
i have that damn same problem with my server, it's like an epidemic

reason why was you didn't say what the sizes of the horse werethey could have been small or massively big
but i am guessing two of the horses were the size of shetlin ponies

reason 'cos i didn't say 'cos I thought this riddle would be a piece of pish, looks like I thought wrong didn't I?
here's a tip, its like the 3 men 4 cigs riddle, the answer kinda makes you laugh (It did with me)

send me a pm if someone has answered it right or If (doubted though) i was right

So you from scotland eh?
I heard Colin McRae died last year
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

ok, I will

yes I am, and yes he did, really is a shame, he stayed right round from my house (believe me or not that an international rally star stayed right around the corner from me), he had a huge funeral service in the main street, That was the biggest tellies I ever saw, they showedthe service in the church. Did you know?, with one of the most dangerous racing sports and the biggest star of them dies in a helicopter crash?, I'ts like Steve Irwin, getting tangeled up in crocodiles and huge apes and all sorts and how was he killed? by a bloody fish! (a stingray)

WHAT!?
YOU KILLED ONE OF THEM AND TURNED IT INTO A PIE!?
YOU CRUEL ANIMAL FIEND!
or sent it to the glue factory
or did you sell one of the horses?
they built another room?
you let it join the brumbies?
made the horse sleep in the tent?
I slightly don't understand how that can be funny
killing an animal as there was no room is quite stupid

What?
wrong
I like animals
wrong
wrong
wrong
wrong
wrong
what can?
who said that?

you chopped up the horses to actually fit in three stables!?
YOU SICK MAN!

wrong
I do feel queezy actually now you mention it...

i was gonna say the inspector because his names Herlock Sholmes so he was a cousin of sherlock holmes and was no good at inspecting so he killed the victim and blame it on either the maid or the gardener so they would go to jail and he gets all the credit for solving the mystery even though he done it

that riddle is done already, read under it!

oh shit i forgot the butler him too ^^,( read above comment)

yes you did

do they cut one of the stables off so two can fit in?

I dont think you can chop off a stable, leave them alone

chp 3 out btw

btw thats wrong

The tenth horse is being ridden and therefore doesnt need to be in the stable

completely wrong

Thats simple All ten horses do fit because one horse is tired u take one horse out and let the tired horse rest in that stable

do they all fit at once in that answer, lets see...
WRONG!!

TENHORSES - it's nine letters, fits perfectly for me xD

Shall I draw a picture? ^^

FINALLY!!!, SOMEONE ACTUALLY GOT IT!! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!
I thought we would be here for ever! Halleuliagh! (how do you spell that word anyway? i dont think thats right but you get the idea) YOU SOLVED IT!! I thought that would be easy and would be solved immediatly, omfg was I wrong, anyhoo, you will be on that scoreboard (coming today, possibly in about 10-15mins)

no need to draw a picture, I can do that myself ^^