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Questions tagged [mystery]

A puzzle that involves figuring out what happened with regard to a certain incident through analyzing clues and deducing conclusions.

A mystery puzzle is a puzzle that involves figuring out the exact details of an incident or a specific desired detail, given limited relevant information. Mystery puzzles usually take the form of solving a crime, often murder. Such puzzles are a subset of the genre.

Please be careful that your mystery puzzle is not a situation riddle, in which only a situation is given with no context or evidence. Those problems require active question-asking on the part of the participant to answer. Make sure that the correct answer is clearly deducible given your problem statement alone.

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Murder on Stack Exchange!

Disclaimer: no offence is intended to any of the puzzling.SE users mentioned (or not mentioned) here! I was inspired by this question to use them as characters, with no regard for reality. You are walking through the mansion of the mighty Lord…
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Murder of the President - Part 1

I am trying something new. This detective riddle/brainteaser will be the first of 5+ parts in a case to solve the murder of the president. Each part will give you a clue (usually a place to go for the next clue) and you must solve the clue. Use all…
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Murder of the President - Part 2

This is Part 2 of the Murder of the President brainteaser/riddle series. If you have not already, you might want to see the answer for Murder of the President - Part 1 posted by Nit before you begin to work on Part 2. Each part will give you a clue…
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Murder of the President - Part 3

This is Part 3 of the Murder of the President brainteaser/riddle. If you have not already, you might want to see the answer for Murder of the President - Part 1 posted by Nit and the answer for Murder of the President - Part 2 posted by Joe Z. Each…
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Man shot from inside car - how did the killer escape?

A man was shot dead in his car. The doors are closed, and locked. The windows are up. The keys are in the ignition. It's clear from the fragmentation around the bullet hole in the front windshield that the shot came from the inside of the car. On…
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The SErial Killer (Part 4)

This puzzle is part of a series - part 1 is here, part 2 is here and part 3 is here. Any comments I make on the OP are canonical and out of character (OOC). Any comments I post on answers are for flavour only. You may notice there's been a bit of a…
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The murder of the captain

One day, in the interstellar space near the system "Calibri"... The battleship B15, controlled from the control ship and flagship "Wielder", has just destroyed an opposing control ship with a long-range shot from a range of 1 light-second, killing…
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Mysterious Murder

A man and his wife are on vacation. They take a ship to and from an island resort. After the vacation, the man is reported by their travel agent and arrested for the murder of his wife. How did the travel agent know the man was the murderer?
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What did the last words, "You put rice in the bread!" really mean?

The detective ate a slice of bread, seemingly made of wheat. The criminal showed up as the detective began to choke. The detective's last words were: " Y-y-you put... rice in... in this b-bread!" Indeed, this was true, but does it…
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Who is the killer now?

One day the local police from the Stack Exchange community received a concerned call from one of the bakeshop owners nearby. Police: Good Morning, this is S.E. Police. How may I help you? Bakeshop Employee: Hello sir, I'm an employee in the…
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Will you be able to solve this murder case puzzle?

CASE June 6, 1992 A family of five was murdered after coming home from a party of their relatives. The family of Lucian and Safire Frenier were found dead in different places. Grizzly, Glinerva and Galathea were the names of their children. Two of…
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Choose a picture

This is my first time to make a puzzle so it might be simply and easy. You are trapped in a huge room. You found 5 different pictures on the wall. Picture A- A red circle with a green background Picture B- A purple oval with a yellow…
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A cellar suicide

A man and his wife, completely devoted to each other, have sworn to be teetotal all their lives. One of their vows at the wedding was in fact that if either of them ever drank alcohol they would take their own lives (pretty silly in my…
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Who broke your window?

One snowy night, you were sitting in your house sitting near a nice cozy fire. All of a sudden, a snowball came crashing through the window, destroying it. You hear voices of laughter and sounds of running and quickly look out your window to see 4…
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Who killed the child?

Here's a puzzle. You will probably find this out easily :) A family lives in a round cabin. The kid's mom and dad go outside. When they come back, their son is dead. The butcher said he was cutting meat. The maid said she was dusting the house. The…
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