| (126) Minute Mysteries |
About Minute Mysteries
- The object of minute mysteries (aka lateral thinking puzzles) is for you to unravel the mystery, based on very limited and somewhat ambiguous clues.
- You are given a scenario (usually involving a death of some sort), and you have to deduce what has happened.
- Someone must look at the solution so that you can ask them questions to try and figure it out.
- The questions have to be phrased so that the only possible answers are yes, no or not relevant.
- There is no limit to the number of questions, and it can be helpful to have multiple people working on the case.
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Mysteries 1 – 20
Mystery # 1 - In the middle of the ocean is a yacht…
Mystery # 2 - Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice all live in the same house…
Mystery # 3 - A woman comes home with a bag of groceries, gets the mail, and walks…
Mystery # 4 - A body is discovered in a park in Chicago in the middle of summer…
Mystery # 5 - A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building…
The Mystery
A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he wakes up, gets dressed, eats, goes to the elevator, takes it down to the lobby, and leaves the building for work. In the evening, he goes through the lobby to the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator (or if it was raining that day) he goes back to his floor directly. However, if there is nobody else in the elevator and it hasn't rained, he goes to the 10th floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his room.
Mystery # 6 - A woman has incontrovertible proof in court that her husband was murdered…
Mystery # 7 - A man walks into a bar and asks for a drink. The bartender pulls out a gun…
Mystery # 8 - A man is in a returning from Switzerland by train. If he had been in a…
Mystery # 9 - Music stops and a woman dies.
Mystery # 10 - A man goes into a restaurant, orders albatross, eats one bite, and kills himself.
Mystery # 11 - A man is found hanging in a locked room with no furniture and a puddle of…
Mystery # 12 - A man is dead in a puddle of blood and water on the floor of a locked room.
Mystery # 13 - A man is lying, dead, face down in the desert wearing a backpack.
Mystery # 14 - A man is lying face down, dead, in the desert, with a match near his…
Mystery # 15 - A man is driving his car. He turns on the radio, listens for five minutes…
Mystery # 16 - A man driving his car turns on the radio. He then pulls over to the side…
Mystery # 17 - A man is dead in a room with sawdust in one corner.
Mystery # 18 - A pile of sawdust, no net, a man dies.
Mystery # 19 - A rope breaks. A bell rings. A man dies.
Mystery # 20 - A man sitting on a park bench reads a newspaper article headlined "Death…
Mysteries 21 – 40
Mystery # 21 - A man is riding a subway. He meets a one-armed man…
Mystery # 22 - Two women are talking. One goes into the bathroom…
Mystery # 23 - A man is sitting in bed. He makes a phone call, says nothing…
Mystery # 24 - A man kills his wife, then goes inside his house and kills himself.
Mystery # 25 - Abel walks out of the ocean. Cain asks him who he is…
Mystery # 26 - Two men, one big and burly and the other short and thin…
Mystery # 27 - Joe leaves his house, wearing a mask…
Mystery # 28 - A man takes a two week cruise to Mexico from the U.S…
Mystery # 29 - Hans and Fritz are German spies during World War II…
Mystery # 30 - Tim and Greg were talking. Tim said "The terror of flight"…
Mystery # 31 - A man is found dead in his parked car. Tire tracks lead…
Mystery # 32 - A man dies in his own home.
Mystery # 33 - A woman in Paris in 1895 is waiting for her husband…
Mystery # 34 - A man gets onto an elevator. When the elevator stops…
Mystery # 35 - A policeman follows a burglar into a bar…
Mystery # 36 - She lost her job when she invited them to dinner.
Mystery # 37 - He couldn't find a chair, so he died.
Mystery # 38 - A car without a driver moves; a man dies.
Mystery # 39 - As I drive to work on my motorcycle, there is one corner
Mystery # 40 - A woman throws something out a window and dies.
Mysteries 41 – 60
Mystery # 41 - An avid birdwatcher sees an unexpected bird. Soon he's dead.
Mystery # 42 - A man shoots himself, and dies.
Mystery # 43 - A man walks into a room, shoots, and kills himself.
Mystery # 44 - Adults are holding children, waiting their turn…
Mystery # 45 - A man marries twenty women in his village…
Mystery # 46 - There are two people dead in a cabin in the woods.
Mystery # 47 - A man pushes a car up to a hotel and realizes he's bankrupt.
Mystery # 48 - She said "I love you," and died.
Mystery # 49 - As a man jumps out of a window, he hears the telephone ring…
Mystery # 50 - A man is found dead on the floor in the living room.
Mystery # 51 - A man is sitting in a train compartment. He sees a three-fingered…
Mystery # 52 - There is a dead man lying in the desert next to a rock.
Mystery # 53 - A man is found dead in the arctic with a pack on his back.
Mystery # 54 - A man is lying dead in a room. There is a large pile of gold…
Mystery # 55 - A man goes home, turns out the light, and goes to bed…
Mystery # 56 - A raft carrying passengers took a trip down the Amazon.
Mystery # 57 - A man is lying dead in a pool of blood and glass.
Mystery # 58 - A woman walks up to a door and knocks…
Mystery # 59 - There is blood on the ceiling of my bedroom.
Mystery # 60 - A woman goes into a convenience store to buy a can of Coke…
Mysteries 61 – 80
Mystery # 61 - A newspaper reported the following: "Yesterday…
Mystery # 62 - Two children born in the same hospital, in the same hour…
Mystery # 63 - A couple will build a square house. In each wall they'll have…
Mystery # 64 - There are a pipe, a carrot and a pile of pebbles together in the
Mystery # 65 - The telephone rang in the middle of the night and the woman woke up…
Mystery # 66 - The seals came up to do their show but immediately dove back
Mystery # 67 - A man is found dead in an alley lying in a pool of red…
Mystery # 68 - A man called to a waiter in a restaurant, "There's a fly in my tea!"…
Mystery # 69 - A man is found dead outside a large marble building…
Mystery # 70 - An ordinary American citizen, with a clean police record…
Mystery # 71 - Three heavy people try to crowd under one umbrella…
Mystery # 72 - A black man dressed all in black, wearing a black mask…
Mystery # 73 - The wind stopped blowing and the man died.
Mystery # 74 - An Arab sheik tells his two sons that are to race their camels…
The Mystery
An Arab sheik tells his two sons that are to race their camels to a distant city to see who will inherit his fortune. The one whose camel arrives last will win. The brothers, after wandering aimlessly for days, ask a wise man for advise. After hearing the advice they jump on the camels and race as fast as they can to their destination.
Mystery # 75 - A man puts a quarter down, and leaves.
Mystery # 76 - A man lies dead next to a feather.
Mystery # 77 - A man carrying an attaché case full of $20 bills falls…
Mystery # 78 - The pope is giving a speech. A man in the audience shoots…
Mystery # 79 - A man travels to twenty countries and stays in each country for a month…
Mystery # 80 - King Henry VIII is lying at the bottom of the stairs with a gash…
Mysteries 81 – 100
Mystery # 81 - Joe wants to go home, but he can't go home…
Mystery # 82 - A man lies dead in a room with fifty-three bicycles in front of him.
Mystery # 83 - Two people are playing cards. One looks around and realizes…
Mystery # 84 - A woman opens an envelope and dyes.
Mystery # 85 - A man is holding a box. Though he cannot see into it…
Mystery # 86 - A man was walking along some railroad tracks
Mystery # 87 - A man was going about his daily occupation when he noticed…
Mystery # 88 - A train pulls into a station, but none of the waiting passengers move.
Mystery # 89 - In his own home a man watches as a woman dies…
Mystery # 90 - There is a dead man, a beetle on top of a book, and a pile of bricks.
Mystery # 91 - A dish moves, a scientist makes a discovery.
Mystery # 92 - A man is alone on an island with no food and no water…
Mystery # 93 - A husband coming home hears his wife call "Bill, don't kill me!"…
Mystery # 94 - Bruce wins the race, but he gets no trophy.
Mystery # 95 - A man rolls over a glass bottle. He travels the last 100 miles
Mystery # 96 - Man pleads with boss not to fly to Chicago…
Mystery # 97 - On an archaeological dig, the frozen remains of a man and woman…
Mystery # 98 - A horse jumps over a tower and lands on a man, who disappears.
Mystery # 99 - It's the year 860 A.D., at Camelot. Two priests are sitting…
Mystery # 100 - Two people are talking long distance on the phone
Mysteries 101 – 126
Mystery # 101 - A boy and his father are injured in a car accident…
Mystery # 102 - The glass breaks, and then the man dies.
Mystery # 103 - A man is running. He sees lights flickering and begins to walk.
Mystery # 104 - A woman goes to the doctor. Later that evening she kills herself.
Mystery # 105 - A man is lying dead in a room. There is a large pile of gold…
Mystery # 106 - A woman buys a new pair of shoes, goes to work, and dies.
Mystery # 107 - A car without a driver moves; a man dies.
Mystery # 108 - She grabbed his ring, pulled on it, and dropped it, thereby saving his life.
Mystery # 109 - Mr. Browning is glad the car ran out of gas.
Mystery # 110 - A man leaves a motel room, goes to his car, honks the horn, and returns.
Mystery # 111 - Two dead people sit in their cars on a street.
Mystery # 112 - A man ran into a fire and lived. A man stayed where there was no fire and died.
Mystery # 113 - Three men die. On the pavement are pieces of ice and broken glass.
Mystery # 114 - Two people in a room alone. One looks around and realizes
Mystery # 115 A man is alone on an island with no food and no water
Mystery # 116 - A man walks into a room, shoots, and kills himself
Mystery # 117 - Beulah died in the Appalachians, while Craig died at sea
Mystery # 118 - A man was brought before a tribal chief, who asked him a question
Mystery # 119 - A writer with an audience of millions insisted that he was never
Mystery # 120 - A young woman is whisked away to a far off land, where she kills…
Mystery # 121 - Three men are dead near a car.
Mystery # 122 - A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three…
Mystery # 123 - A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water…
Mystery # 124 - A very rich man hires a poor man to clean one wing of his extravagant
Mystery # 125 - He was killed because of poor eyesight.
Mystery # 126 - Two men look at each other and start to argue…