35 Best Detective Riddles Only the Smartest 2% Can Crack

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[Music] ten detective riddles only the most attentive 1% can solve number 10 a detective and the blacksmith brothers on a snowy winter night the detective was resting in front of the fireplace suddenly somebody threw a snowball at his window the hit was so strong that the glass shattered the detective stood up and had just enough time to notice three kids who lived in the neighborhood running away they were brothers with the name's Sam blacksmith Peter blacksmith and Mark blacksmith the next day a paper note was left on the detectives door there it was written question mark blacksmith he threw the snowball the detective knew immediately which brother to question okay now you have 15 seconds hopefully enough time to figure it out the symbol question mark is called the question mark so here we go question mark blacksmith he threw the snowball number nine hotel room a woman was staying in her hotel room when somebody knocked at the door when she opened it she saw an unknown man he looked surprised and said I apologize I thought it was my room he turned away and went in the direction of the elevators the woman however returned to the room and dialed security why was she so suspicious have you already figured it out time is ticking the woman logically decided that if the man had thought that the room was his he wouldn't have knocked such behavior is typical for those criminals who break into hotel rooms and steal whatever they can they knock on the door to make sure there's nobody inside number eight suicide or murder a detective comes to a crime scene a man is said to jump out of a window of an abandoned building and commit suicide the detective goes inside the building to the first floor to the room at the front he lights a cigarette goes up to the window which faces the dead man opens it and throws the cigarette out then he goes to the second floor and does the same he continues until he has visited all the floors and repeated the action again and again then he returns to his team and says that it was by no means a suicide but a murder how did he find it out it took the detective much longer than 15 seconds to understand the truth what about you are you smarter when a person commits suicide jumping from a high floor they don't tend to close the window behind them but in this case none of the windows which face the dead man were left open it means that there was somebody who closed them after the man died number seven ice-t two young ladies were having dinner together they both ordered ice tea one of them was very thirsty and drank very fast she had five glasses during the time the other drink only one tragically the girl who was nursing her drink and drinking slowly died the other stayed alive but it turned out that all the drinks they had been served contain poison how is it possible that the girl who drank more survived a strange case are you ready with the answer [Music] in fact the poison was contained in the ice the ice and the tea of the girl who drank fast didn't have time to melt but the ice cubes and the other girls drink melted releasing the poison into her tea number six mysterious death in the car a man was found shot to death in his car the policemen were puzzled as there was no gunpowder on his clothes or anywhere else in the car this meant that the person who shot him was outside but all the windows were closed all the doors locked and the only bullet hole was on the man's body how was it possible perhaps some mystic powers here's your 15 seconds the answer is actually quite simple the car where the man had been killed was a convertible when the fatal shot sounded the roof was down number 5 fly in coffee a woman was having breakfast at a nice restaurant at one moment she noticed a fly in her coffee she was indignant and made the way to bring her another cup of the drink after he returned with a new cup of coffee she shouted what is the service in this place you have brought me the same cup of coffee how did she understand it perhaps the woman was a psychic what do you think [Music] she had already put sugar in her previous cup of coffee when she tried the new one it was sweet number four in court for killing the wife a man is accused of killing his wife his lawyer in his final statement declares that the wife of the man in fact hasn't been killed and will enter the courtroom in a minute everybody in the room including the judge and the jury turns and looks at the door and the lawyer with the defendant looks at them several minutes pass and the lawyer says it proves that you are not so sure that my client has killed his wife otherwise you wouldn't believe me almost immediately after that the jury comes up with a guilty verdict why does it happen 15 seconds to find the answer the man who had been accused wasn't looking at the door he was sure his wife wouldn't enter as he had killed her number three a case of a smuggler a man carrying two bags with sand crosses the Mexican border on a bicycle every day customs officers regularly check the bags and all the time they contain sand it is obvious that the man smuggled something but the officers can't realize what it is exactly as they don't have any proof the man crosses the border without interruptions what does he smuggle your time has started this creative individual distracts the custom officers attention with the bags of sand but in fact he smuggles bicycles number two suicide message a body of a man was found in the flat at some moment he collapsed against his desk a gun in his hand the police found a cassette recorder nearby when they pressed the play button what they heard was I can't live like this anymore then the sound of a gunshot was heard however the detective immediately figured out that it was a murder how did he realize that it wasn't a suicide surely you already know the answer if not you still have some time [Music] if the man had killed himself he by no means would have been able to rewind the tape conclusion there was someone else number one crime scene a man killed his wife in their car he used the knife which he later threw away into an abyss where nobody was going to find it his wife's body he took out of the car he was very careful and left no fingerprints after that he headed home and a couple of hours he got a call from the police they informed him that his wife had been killed and he had to arrive at the crime scene right away as soon as he got there however he was suspected for the murder how did the police realize it had been him who was guilty and 15 seconds for you take your time the husband wasn't informed of the definite location of the crime scene despite that he came to the right place seven mystery riddles only the smartest five percent can solve here we go number seven jailbreak jack is placed in a cell with a dirt floor and only one window positioned so high no one could reach it this cell is empty except for a shovel it's hot and dry there but jack won't get any food or drink anytime soon he has only two days to break out of the jail if not he'll die we know what you have immediately thought but no digging a tunnel is not an option as it will take more than two days so how should Jack escape the cell what's your guess don't forget you can pause the video to have more time to think [Music] all set here's the answer well the way out for Jack turned out to be a piece of cake he had to use the shovel to make a pile of dirt under the window climb on it and escaped from the cell seriously who secures prisoners this way all right number six a stolen necklace mrs. Smith went to the police claiming that her vintage necklace was missing the woman was upset when the police arrived they saw no signs of a break-in no messed up locks no misplaced doors only one window was broken there was a total mess inside the house and dirty footprints all over the floor surprisingly the next day mrs. Smith was arrested for fraud why are you ready there five seconds left [Music] here's the answer the police were sure that mrs. Smith lied to them because the window was broken from the inside if it had been broken from the outside little pieces of glass would have been on the rooms floor number five murder at school on the first day of the school year a geography teacher was murdered the police had as many as four suspects they were the gardener the math teacher the coach and even the school principal man I vote for the principal now the sticking point was that they all had alibis the gardener was cutting bushes the math teacher was holding a mid-year test the coach was playing basketball the principal was in the office despite this the killer was arrested immediately can you guess who killed the geography teacher and how the police solved the mystery you have 15 seconds to find the killer [Music] the killer was the math teacher according to his own words he was holding a mid-year test but the crime happened on the first day of the school year he needs to learn how to lie better don't you think number four a lonely man a lonely old man lived in his house in the suburbs of the city he led a quiet life perhaps he was a homebody as he never left his dwelling for long it was a midsummer Friday when the mailman walked by and called out for the man there was no answer coming from inside the house the mailman looked into the window and Ono saw the man in a pool of blood when the policeman arrived he found Tuesday's newspaper two bottles of warm milk and one bottle of cold milk the next day the killer was arrested do you know how the police found out who it was so quickly what is your idea five seconds remaining can you see the answer it was obviously the mailman he knew that no one in that house would read a newspaper on Wednesday or Thursday that's why he came only on Friday number three two pills a serial killer had a particular practice going he kidnapped people and made them take one of two pills one was harmless the other was poisonous whichever pill a victim took the serial killer took the other one then the scheme repeated itself continuously victims took their pills with water and died the killer repeatedly survived how did he always get the harmless pill good luck your time has started [Music] here's the answer the serial killer was tricking people the poison was in the glass of water his victims drank not in the pill oh that stinks so unfair anyway number two frozen windows once on a cold winter day a tragedy happened Jon found his friend dead in his own house Jon called the police and said he was just passing by Jack's house when he decided to drop by to see him he had been knocking and ringing the bell for a long time however all was silent perhaps Jack wasn't at home but Jon could very well see the light in the room through a frozen window he breathed on the ice window glass and saw jack on the floor unexpectedly for Jon the police arrested him as the main suspect why 15 seconds to go only five seconds left obviously John hasn't thought his legend through he wouldn't be able to unfreeze the window glass because it's usually I see on the inside and finally number one chemical substances a famous chemist was murdered in his lab there was no evidence found except for a piece of paper with the names of chemical substances on it on the day he was murdered the chemist had only three visitors his wife Mary his nephew Nicholas and his friend Jonathan the police arrested the murderer right away how did they know who it was a little hint play closer attention to the note [Music] the answer is hidden in the note this piece of paper had a clue if you combine the short names of the chemical substances on the paper you'll get a name ni CE o la ass even dying this man remained a real chemist speaking of chemists here's one for you johnny was a chemist son but johnny is no more for what he thought was h2o was h2so4 which is of course sulfuric acid oops alright whodunit ten detective riddles that will chill your blood number one an unpunished murderer a woman declares in court that her sister killed her husband all the evidence backs up her claim however the judge can't punish the murderer why not your time starts now so the problem here is that the women are conjoined twins so punishing the murderous sister would harm the innocent one and so they're just stuck with each other oh well number two a mysterious death a young woman is sitting near the window at first she's deep in thought then she suddenly decides to throw something out the window a couple of minutes later she's dead what happened she was perfectly healthy no illnesses allergies or dependence on any type of medical apparatus nobody killed her and she wasn't suicidal hmm 15 seconds on the clock the cause of her death was the object she threw out the window it was a boomerang that came back at such high speed it hit her in the head and killed her on the spot I wonder what possessed her to throw it in the first place hey what goes around comes around you know number three what's in the bag a man is quickly coming up on an open field he's got a bag with him if he doesn't open the bag before he reaches the field he'll be dead what dangerous cargo is in this mysterious bag times ticking away the man skydiving and in the bag he has his parachute number four a stranger on a dark and stormy night a couple is speeding through an unknown town in their car suddenly one of the tires blows so they have to pull over finding no spare in the trunk the husband sets off to get help but he's worried about his wife who decides to stay alone in the car while he's gone so to protect her he rolls up the windows and locks all the doors upon returning he sees that the car is in the same condition but when he looks through the window he's shocked to see his wife dead blood everywhere and a stranger in the car what happened here something messy of course but we need details now's your time to come up with the answer there was no crime at all the woman was in labor they were rushing to the hospital when the tire blew so while the man was away his wife gave birth to a baby but didn't survive herself number five a psychics prediction two men are in a room facing each other one of the men is a psychic and can see into the future he predicts that in ten minutes the other man will be stabbed in the back of course shocked and paranoid the latter can't stop staring at a clock on the wall and exactly ten minutes later he's dead with a knife in his back how could it happen take your time you have 15 seconds to think give up after 10 minutes the man turned around to see if there was anybody behind him at exactly that moment the psychic stabbed him in the back da I'm starting to think he wasn't a psychic at all number 6 a lonely victim there's a man lying on the ground dead as a doornail doornails are pretty dead his head is split open and every bone in his body shattered there's not a living creature or building in sight but there is a bag next to him so how did he die your 15 seconds start now this man was a skydiver who didn't manage to open his parachute Hey that's exactly what was in the bag lying next to him maybe it was the same guy from earlier they're really not having much luck are they number seven a snorkeler in the forest a young man is lying dead in a forest oddly enough like these aren't odd he's wearing swimming trunks goggles and a snorkel but the most unusual thing is that the nearest body of water is 15 miles away so how did this snorkel or died in the forest think about it well there was a huge forest fire and the plane that was extinguishing it had to scoop up water from the lake 15 miles away doing this it accidentally captured the man snorkeling in the lake he was dropped down together with a water and died too bad he didn't have the bag with a parachute number 8 a simple choice upon receiving an anonymous tip the police rushed to a house where a murder suspect is said to be they have no physical description but they do know his name is John when the cops reached the place they see four people playing poker a carpenter firefighter truck driver and a mechanic none of which have nametags on their uniforms without a moment's hesitation they arrest the firefighter so how did they know that's their guy your time starts now the firefighter was the only man in the room all the other said the poker table were women and couldn't be named John unless of course they were cross dressers but that's outside of the scope of this number nine the mystery of the locked car oh goody here's another locked car don't get in the car lady it's not going to go very well oops too late a man and his wife we're driving down the highway when they ran out of gas uh-huh so the husband walks to the nearest gas station and is gone for about an hour before he heads off he tells his wife to stay in the car and lock all the doors and windows boy this is not gonna turn out well I can just feel it the wife bored and wanting to entertain herself turns on the radio only to hear some shocking news a serial killer has escaped from the prison and was last seen on that very highway where the car is sitting the reporter on the news gives a very detailed description of the escapee the wife gets so scared that she quickly turns off the radio she double checks all walks but when she looks up she sees the murderer just a few feet from the car when the man returns he finds the car still all locked up but surprise surprise his wife is dead inside her throat had been slit how is it possible the answer is both simple and tragic the couple had been driving a convertible with the top down hey we didn't say they weren't stupid number 10 the crime scene a man murdered his wife in the family car do you feel the deja vu here I'm starting to get the feeling that husbands and why shouldn't ride together in the car well maybe he was a fan of crime shows because he cleverly disposed of the body in the knife leaving behind no fingerprints after taking care of this dirty business he went home some time passed and he got a call from the police they told him that they believed his wife had been murdered and he needed to come to the scene immediately to identify the body as soon as he got there he was arrested so how did the police know it was him if he left no evidence behind here are your 15 seconds use them wisely to come up with the answer and ignore that psychic over there with a knife gotcha the thing is that the husband wasn't told where the crime scene was despite that he came to the right place very sly police work all right eight detective riddles to test how awesome your logic skills are counting down from number eight escaped once a famous detective Stephenson had to find an escaped prisoner he knew the criminal was hiding in one of these houses but he had to know the exact address so as to not frighten the criminal away first he took a photo of the houses with the help of a drone when he looked at the photo he realized where the criminal was so can you understand where that fugitive was and what helped the detective find him you have 15 seconds your time has started [Music] are you ready to check your guesses the murderer was in house a you see the car standing nearby was the only car parked facing the road it would let the criminal escape quickly number seven detectives tragedy one morning the detective had an argument with his wife and went away without his cellphone and the keys in the evening when he returned home he found his colleague his scared wife and a murdered man Stephens wife told her story I was sitting in the living room when I heard the doorbell I thought it was my husband and opened the door but a criminal pushed me and so I stabbed him with a knife the detective ordered the policeman to arrest his wife because she had planned to kill him how did the detective figure it out time to wrack your brain [Music] unfortunately mrs. Stephens indeed plan to kill her husband she went to open the door with a knife because she thought it was her husband number six friendly murder Mary and Ben lived with their four friends one day Ben came home and found Mary dead on a sofa bummer he called the police the detective arrived and realized that Mary had been killed not so long ago he interrogated all four friends that's what their stories told Mia was in the kitchen and said she'd come home two hours ago and gone to the kitchen [Music] John was reading a book in the garden he said he hadn't left the place that day Jennifer said she had been swimming in a swimming pool for three hours Jane was painting in her room unexpectedly the detective asked everyone to show him their hands and found out who lied to him immediately that person was the murderer how did Stevens uncover the criminal time is ticking away tick-tock who do you think the detective was checking well time is out here's the answer pay attention to the hands of Jennifer if she had been swimming in the pool for so long the skin on her palms would have been wrinkled Oh Jennifer you're pruny hands gave you away number five Blood Ties a millionaire was shot in the forehead at his own home detective Stevens spoke to the millionaire's three sons Jack John and James who were at home Jack said that night John their father oh let me guess the wife's name is Jane I'll bet anyway the father had been at an official reception they arrived home and entered the living room his father came in first then John and Jack himself when their father came up to the stairs James entered the living room and shot their father John confirmed Jack's information James said he had visited his friends that night when he arrived home his father had already been dead the detective understood everything immediately so who was the killer and how did Stephens resolve that case what do you think the word of one brother against two others a tricky case or have you already figured out what happened let's check if you were right John and Jack live if James had killed their father a bullet would have shot him in the name because he wanted to go upstairs however the wound was on his forehead all right I was thinking it was Jane but now number four romantic journey mr. and mrs. Clyde went on a trip to the mountains but two days later mr. Clyde returned home alone he went to the police and said that mrs. Clyde had fallen to her death the next day detective Stevens visited mr. Clyde and arrested him for his wife's murder Clyde confessed his guilt and asked the detective how he found out he was the murderer Stephen said he simply called a travel agent and asked for some information what did the travel agent say to the detective what is your version did it have anything to do with the insurance perhaps you have just a few seconds left [Music] do you know the answer the words of the travel agent shed light on the whole situation mr. Clyde bought two plane tickets to the mountains and only one return ticket if only mrs. Clyde had known a blame the Beatles she didn't have a ticket to ride number three liar a man told the police that he had come home from work to find his wife's dead body lying in the middle of the parlor he said she had apparently found his gun in his desk and shot herself however the policeman knew at once that the man was lying how did he know 15 seconds is all you have to solve this mystery [Music] the policeman noticed that the man had an empty gun holster attached to his belt it meant he'd either been about to take the gun with him or had it on him all along the former couldn't be true because he said he'd come home from work and found his wife dead that's why we are left with the latter not the latter the latter which proves that the man had actually shot his wife number two silly murderer the detective was speaking to a doctor in a waiting room when a dismayed man rushed in and screamed somebody shot my wife the detective asked the man to tell him everything the man mr. Carr said that he was at work when his housekeeper called him and said that something terrible had happened to his wife and that she was in the intensive care unit he hung up immediately and went to the hospital when mr. Clarke finished his story the detective arrested him on the attempted murder charge why did he do this can the detective read minds what is your opinion you have just a few seconds left to make your guess in fact mr. Clarke didn't know anything about a shot his housekeeper only said that something bad had happened to his wife no firearm had been mentioned by the way are you also keeping count of how many couples are killing their spouses so much spouse aside what does this say about our society well firstly the killers all screw it up but I digress finally number one the murder of an aristocrat George Smith was murdered on Sunday evening there were five other people in his house mr. Smith's wife I'm betting she did it his personal cook a butler a housemaid and a gardener they all told detective Stevens what they were doing that evening mrs. Smith was reading a book near a fireplace the cook was making breakfast the butler was giving instructions to workers in the living room the housemaid was washing the dishes the gardener was watering plants in the greenhouse right after all the conversations the detective arrested the murderer who was the killer and how did Stevens find the criminal will you be able to solve this riddle in 15 seconds if you want more time to consider this case you can always pause the video [Music] well what is your answer the criminal was the cook of course he was I knew that all the time the murder was committed in the evening but he said he was making breakfast he had to pay more attention to what he was saying you know what I think mrs. Smith paid the gardener to kill her husband because he was having an affair with a housemaid uh-huh it all fits so let's wrap this up how many riddles have you solved and which ones seemed the trickiest write to us in the comments below share this video with your friends to have more fun and remember to hit the like button if this video gathers 50,000 likes we will prepare a new portion of detective mysteries for you and here's our final clue join us on the bright side [Music]

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Published: Sat Jul 07 2018

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