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rope. lt,wasn't.long enough to reaoh the
ground. So, he divided it in half and'tied the
two halves together. This made the rope
long enough and he escaped. How?
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four, then later on two, and usually three
near the end.
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potatoes or corn. She wears a hood, but
never a hat. She will climb a steep
mountain, but not,if it is high. She chops
down trees from woods, but,not from a
forest. What does Deenie like to do?
17. The Washingtons were driving from Ohio
to Florida. They had a flat tire. They didn't
notice and neither did any of the others
drivers. Why?
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a score of four to nothing- yet not a single
man ran all around the bases- and none of
the players was a woman.
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doors \ryere closed and iocked.
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note on lined paper, but she couldn't
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10. A man hears a woman calling out a
number and ends up in the hospital.
V/hat was the number?
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no buildings, and forests but no trees?
B.A farmer threw 9 ears of corn into the
barn. Arut came in and left with 3 ears
each day. It took the rat 9 days to take
all the corn. Why?
7.4 son called'his mother from school to
say that he would be home around 8:00.
He got,in,attwo minutes past;eight. His
mother had been'extremely worried at
his late arrival, Why?
6.One hundred feet,in the air, it lies with
its back on the soil. What,is it?
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He traveled to many places. He gave
to total strangers who each handed it
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4.Last St. Patrick's Duy, a leprechaun
granted aboy, who wanted to be one of
the strongest creatures on earth, his wish.
The boy suddenly was able to lift 50
times his own weight. What creature
was he turned into?
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office left some sandwiches on his desk.
As a result of this, he later became a
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2.The class was for the smartest students
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1.He had been very sick ftrr two weeks.
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imprisoned (the king didn't like the jester's
jokes). The jester was locked in a room at
the top of a high towerr The room had only
one tiny window. The jester found a piece of
rope. lt,wâsr't long enough to reach the
ground. So, he divided it in half and'tied the
two halves together, This made the rope
long enough and he escaped. How?
19. ln the beginning this creature goes on
four, then later on two, and usually three
near the end.
18.Deenie is always sleepy, but never tired.
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lessons. She can fly in a balloon, but not in
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potatoes or corn. She wears a hood, but
never a hat. She will climb a steep
mountain, but not if it is high. She chops
down trees from woods, but not from a
forest. What does Deenie like to do?
The Washingtons'were driving from Ohio
to Florida. They had a flat tire. They didn't
notice and neither did any of the others
drivers. Why?
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man ran all around the bases- and none of
the players was a woman.
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note on lined paper, but she couldn't
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a
number and ends up in the hospital.
V/hat was the number?
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no buildings, and forests but no trees?
B.A farmer threw 9 ears of corn into the
barn. A rat came in and left with 3 ears
each day. It took the rat 9 days to take
all the corn. why?
7.4 son called his mother from school to
say that he would be home around 8:00.
He got in at two minutes past eight. His
mother had been extremely worried at
his late arrival. Why?
6.One hundred feet in the air, it lies with
its back on the soil. rWhat is it?
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He traveled to many places. He gave it
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the strongest creatures on earth, his wish.
The boy suddenly was able to lift 50
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was he turned into?
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office left some sandwiches on his desk.
As a result of this; he later became a
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Story l: The man was afraid to go home because the man with the mask was there. Answer: The man
with the mask was a catcher in a baseball tean. The other mon was a base runner.
Story 2: Dan and Don entered a tavern and were served identical drinks. Don drank is slowly and
died. Dan drank is quickly and was fine. Answer: There was poison in the ice
Story 3: A famous scientist was awarded a government prize for his invention of an new weapon. He
decided to invite a number of his friend to a party in the lab. For entertainment, he provided a
,juggler, an opera soprano, and a ballet dancer. At the height of the evening, all present were suddenly
and mysteriously killed. Answer: The soprano sang a high note, exploding the glass bottle of Iethal gas, the
new weapon
Story 4: John and l\{ary are on the floor. Thecr are pieces of broken glass and a puddle of liquid also
on the floor. Mary is dead. Answer: John, a cat, knocked over afishbowl, in which, Mary, afish, lived.
Story 5: A travelor on a dessertcd road carne upon the body of a man lying by thc roadside, dead. The
rverring a knapsack. Thoagh there are no marks on the botly, or blood anyrvhere, the
travelor coukl tell immediantly the cause of death. Answer: The knapsackwas an unopenecl parcchute
d.ead man was
Story 6: S¡,lvester had just recieved a promotion in his ccìmpany. To celebrate, Sy'lvestcr and his wifþ
invited his boss, his boss's rvife and a party of 70 for dinner. A fire broke out during the party and no
one escaped from the room. In the morning, fireman found the bodies of only 5 people in the ruins.
Answer: There was never more lhan 5 people there: the man, his wife, the boss, the boss's wife and the party
of 70, an elderly man.
Story 7: One hundred people were traveling down the Amazon River on a flatboat when the boat, in
calm water, capsized and all were drowned. Answer: A huge snake was sighted hanging over the river
from a Íree branch. The passengers panicked, and all ofthem ran to lhe other side ofthe boat to get away,
capsizing the boat.
Story 8: Mr. Allen was reading a newspaper and came across an article about the death of a woman in
the Swiss Alps. Reading that Dr. Jone's wife had accidentally fallen to her death while skiing, Mr.
Allen went to the police and told them "Jones murdered his wife". After questionting, Jones confessed
to the crime. How did Mr. Allen know? Answer: Mr. Allen is a travel agent. He remembered selling Jones
a one way ticket and a round trip ticket to Switzerlan
Story 9: A doctor was driving his son to schor¡l one day when their car was rammed by a truck. The
doctor was kilied and his son seriously injured. The son was rushed to a nearby hospital and prepared
for surgery, holever, when he was wheeled into surgery the surgeon announced: 'rI can't operate, this
is rny son." Á.nswer: the surgeon was the boys ntother.
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Story l0: A mans dead body hangs form rope tied to the center of a ceiling beam in a large empty
room. His feet are ten feet from the floor. Nothing else is in the room. Answer: The tnan climbed upon a
stack of ice, attached the rope and waited for the ice to melt.
Story 1l: A gang of thieves robs a warehouse one night. They capture two night watchmen and place
them unharmed and unbound into the trunk of a car parked nearby. The next morning, when
employees hear sounds coming from the trunk, they open it. A man steps out, alive and well, and the
other man is dead. Answer: The survivor breathed airfrom the spare tire.
Story 12: A murder was committed before thousands of people, but all of them thought it was an
accident. Answer: A trapeze artist who took his cues from the organisl þr when to start, reach and land, fetl
to his death. The organist had purposely changed the tempt in mid-act to throw him off.
Story 13: A man lies dead in a room with 53 bicycles. Answer: The man had been playing cardsfor
pulling an extra ace from his sleeve. His opponent had shot him andfled. The
bicycles are Bicycle playing cards.
' money. He had cheated by
Story 14: A man has been murdered while sittting int he driver's seat of his car. Although there are
numerous bulleet wounds in the body and all the doors and rvindows of the car are tightly closed and
locked, there are no bullet holes anywhere in the car. Answer: The car is a convertible with the top down.
Story 15: A man is in a cabin. There is broken glass on the floor. The man is dead. Answer; There was
plane crash and he is lying dead in an airplane cabin
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Story 16: A woman walks into a bar and orders a glass of water. The bartender gives her the water
and points a gun'at her. She says "thank you" and walks ottt. Anstuet": The bartender curerl her hiccups.
Story 17: If the man had seen the sawdust, he wouldn't have'tlied . Ans'vter: The man was a blind miciget
in a circtts. His competitor slowly, piece by piece, sawed his blincl can shorter to rnake him thiníc that he was
growing and would lose his job. The blind midget committed suicide.
Story 18: Every morning, the man walkes out of his apartment on the lSth floor, and rides the
elevator down to the lobby. Every afternoon, after work, he rides up on the eleveator to the 8th floor,
gets out and walks the rest of the way up to the 18th floor; using the stairs, except on rainy days, when
he rides the elevator all the way up to the 18th floor. Answer: The man is a midget and can't reach
buttons higher than the 9thfloor, except when he carrries his unbrella, on rainy days.
Story 19: A man with a long beard walks into a restauran and orders the albatross. Taking a bite, the
man runs from the restraunt. Answer: The man had been shipwreckedþr a long time. Not all of his ship
friends had survived. The cook hadþund some meat and cooked it up, calling it albatross. Now, eating the
albatross, he realizs that he had been eating the flesh of his dead friends.
Story 20: During the night, while the man and his wife slept in their apartment, a storm knocked off
the electricity. In the morning, the wife was dead. Answer: His wfe lived in an iron lung and died when
the electricity was shut off.
Story 2l: A man is lying dead in a fietd next to a rock. Answer; The man is Superman and the rock is
Kryptonite.
Story 22; A man rolls a wheelbarrow up to a motel, pays some money. A tittte bit lager, he rolls the
wheelbarrow away. ,Answer: The man is playing monopoly.
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Story l: The man was afraid to go home because the man with the mask was there. Answer: The man
with the maskwas a catcher in a baseball team. The other man was a base runner.
Story 2: Dan and Don entered a tavern and were served identical drinks. Don drank is slowly and
died. Dan drank is quickly and was fine. Answer: There was poison in the ice
Story 3: A famous scientist was awarded a government prize for his invention of an new weapon. He
decided to invite a number of his friend to a party in the lab. tr'or entertainment, he provided a
juggler, an opera soprano, and a ballet dancer. At the height of the evening, all present were suddenly
and mysteriously killed. Answer: The soprano sang a high note, exploding the glass bottle of lethal gas, the
neuì weapon
Storl, 4' John and Mary are on the floor. Theer are pieces of broken glass and a puddle of liquirl also
on the fìoor. Mary is dead. Answer: John, a cat, knocked over afishbowl, in which, Mary, afish, Iivcti.
Story 5: A travelor on a desserted road came upon the body of a man lying b¡' the roadside, dead. The
dead man was wearing a knapsack. 'fhough thcre are no marks on the body, or blood anywhere, the
travelor could tell immediantiy the cause of death. Answer: The knapsack was an unopened parachute
Story 6: Sylvester had just recieved a promotion in his company. To celebrate, Sylvester and his wife
invited his boss; his boss's wife and a party of 70 for dinner. A fire broke out during the party and no
one escaped from the room. In the morning, fireman found the bodies of only 5 people in the ruins.
Answer: There was never more than 5 people there: the man, his wife, lhe boss, lhe boss's wife and the party
of 70, an elderly man.
Story 7: One hundred people were traveling down the Amazon River on a flatboat when the boat, in
calm water, capsized and all were drowned. Answer: A huge snake was sighted hanging over the river
from a tree branch. The passengers panicked, and all of them ran to the other side of the boat to get away,
capsizing the boat.
Story 8: Mr. Allen was reading a newspaper and came across an article about the death of a woman in
the Swiss Alps. Reading that Dr. Jone's wife had accidentally fallen to her death while skiing, Mr.
Allen went to the police and told them "Jones murdered his wife". After questionting, Jones confessed
to the crime. How did Mr. Allen know? Answer: Mr. Allen is a lravel agent. He rememhered selling Jones
a one way ticket and a round tip ticket to Switzerland.
Story 9: A doctor was driving his son to school one day when their car was rammed by a truck. The
doctor was killed and his son seriously injured. The son was rushed to a nearby ltospital and prepared
for surgery, however, when he was wheeled into surgery the surgeon announced: "I can't operate, this
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Story l0: A mans dead body hangs form rope tied to the center of a ceiling beam in a large empfy
room. His feet are ten feet from the floor. Nothing else is in the room. Answer: The man climbed upon a
slack of ice, altached the rope and waited þr the ice to melt.
Story 11: A gang of thieves robs a warehouse one night. They capture two night watchmen and place
them unharmed and unbound into the trunk of a car parked nearby. The next morning, when
employees hear sounds coming from the trunk, they open it. A man steps out, alive and well, and the
other man is dead. Answer: The survivor breathed airfrom the spare tire.
Story 12: A murder was committed before thousands of people, but all of them thought it was an
accident. Answer: A trapeze artist who took his cuesfrom the organist þr when to start, reach and land, fell
to his death. The organist had purposely changed the tempt in mid-act to throtv him off.
Story 13: A man lies dead in a room with 53 bicycles. Answer: The man had been playing cardsfor
money. He had cheated by putting an extra ace from his sleeve. His opponent had shot him andfled. The
bicycles are Bicycle playing cards.
Story 14: A man has been murdered while sittting int he driver's seat of his car. Although there are
numerous bulleet wounds in the body and alt the doors and windows of the car are tightly closed and
locked, there are no bullet holes anywhere in the car. Answer: The car is a convertible with the top down.
Story 15: A man is in a cabin. There is broken glass on the floor. The man is dead. Answer: There was
a plane crash and he is lying dead in an airplane cabin
Sfory 16: A woman walks into a bar'and orders a glass of water. The bartender gives her the water
ancl points a gun at her. She says "thank you" and rvalks out. Ansv,et': The bartender cured her hiccups.
Story 17: Il the man had seen the sawdust, he wouldn't have diecl. Answer: The manwas n blind midge t
in c circus. His competitor slowly, piece by piece, sau,ed hi.s blind can shorter to make hin think that lte wos;
growing and would lose his job. The blind midget committed stticide.
Story 18: Every morning, the man walkes out of his apartment on the l8tlt floor, and rides the
elevator down to the lobby. Every afternoon; after work, he rides up on the eleveator to th^e 8th lloor'
gets out and walks the rest of the way up to the lSth floor, using the stairs, except on rainy dayso when
he rides the elevator all the way up to the 18th floor. Answer: The man is a midget and can't reach
buttons higher than the \th floor, except when he carrries his umbrella, on rainy days.
Story 19: A man with a long beard walks into a restauran and orders the albatross. Taking a bite' the
man runs from the restraunt. Answer: The man had been shipwreckeclfor a long time. Not all of his ship
friends had survived. The cook hadþund some meat and cooked it up, calling it albatross. Now, eating the
albatross, he realizs that he had been eating the flesh of his dead fi"iends.
Story 20: During the night, while the man and his wife slept in their apartment, a storm knocked off
the electricity. In the morning, the wife was dead. Answer: His wife lived in an iron lung and died when
the electricity was shut off.
Story 2lz !¡ man is lying dead in a field next to a rock. Answer: The man is Superman and the rock is
Kryptonite.
Story 222 A, man rolls a wheelbarrow up to a motel, pays some money. A little bit lager, he rolls the
wheelbarrow away. Answer: The man is playing monopoly.
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l. A man is running a\ryay from home. A second man is
running after him. The second man is wearing a
mask. who are they and where are they goingl
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a.
A man lives on the twelfth floor of a building. Each
morning he gets up, showers, gets dressed, takes the
elevator to the first floor, and goes to work. Each
evening he comes home, takes the elevator to the sixth
floor, runs up to the twetrfth floor and he's home.
why doesn't he take the elevator to the tweìfth fÏoor
rvhen he comes hume?
3.
4.
Two identical twins (biologically and physically
ideritical) go into a corner candy storè and each orders
a glass of soda. The contents of the glasses are
identical. Each twin drinks the soda and finishes it.
One twin lives and one twin dies. Why?
A man is in the desert. rn the distance he sees a
refreshment stand. rle walks in and says to the
attendant, t.Please, please, a glass of \ryater.rr The
attendant takes out a gun and fires three shots in the
air. The man said, "Thank yoür, and Ieft satisfied.
How come he was satisfied by the gunshots when he
really wanted a glass of water?
Answers to STORIES WITH HOLES:
1. It is a baseball
game. The man running away from home
just hit the ball. The man with the mask is the catcher
who retrieved the ball and is chasing the runner to tag
him out.
2.
The man is too short to reach the button for the twelfth
floor. He can reach the bottom buttons so he can go
down in the morning but he can only reach as high as the
sixth button so that is why he walks the rest of the way
up.
3.
The twins are identical twins NOT TO EACH OTHER
but to two other people.
4. The man is satisfied because he was not thirsty. He had
the hiccups and the gunshot scared them away.
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Directions: Read the scenario to the girls. Then they ask you yes or no questions to
discover what happened.
Story 1: The man was afraid to go home because the man with the mask was there. Answer;
The man
with the maskwas a catcher in a baseball team. The olher man'n)as a base runner.
Story 2: Dan and Don entered a tavern and were served identical drinks. Don drank is
slowly and
died. Dan drank is quickly and was frne. Answer: There was poison in the ice
Story 3: A famous scientist was awarded a government prize for his invention of an
new weapon. He
decided to invite a number of his friend to a party in the lab. tr'or entertainment,
he provided a
juggler, an opera soprano' and a ballet dancer. At the height of the
evening, all present were suddenly
and mysteriously killed. An*ver; The soprano sang a high Ãote, exploding thi glass bottle
of tethal gas, the
new weapon
Story 4: John and Mary are on the floor. Theer are pieces of broken glass and a puddle
of liquir! also
on the floor. Mary is dead. Answer: John, a cat, knocked over a
in
which,
Mo,y, a.fish, littcrÌ.
fishbo.l,
Story 5: A travelor on a desserted road came upon the body of a man lying bv the roadside,
dead. The
dead man rvas wearing I knapsack. 'fhough there are no marks on the boãy, or
blood anywhere, the
travelor could tell immediantiy the cause of death. Answer; The knapsack v,ås ,,, ,,noprrr"¿ parachute
Story 6: Sylvester had just recieved a promotion in his company. To celebrate, Sylvester
and his wife
invited his boss,'his boss's wife and a party of 70 for dinner. A fire broke out during the party
and no
one escaped from the room. In the morning, fireman found the bodies of only 5 people
in the ruins.
Answer: There was never more than 5 people there: the man, his wife, the boss, ih, iorr;, wife
ancl lhe party
of 70, an elderly man.
Story 7: One hundred people were traveling down the Amazon River on a flatboat when the
boat, in
calm water, capsized and all were drowned. Answer; A huge snake was sightecl hanging
over the river
from a tree branch' The passengers panicked, and all of them ran to the othlr srde of lheloat to get awoy,
capsizing the boat.
Story 8: Mr. Allen was reading a nervspaper and came across an article about the death
of a woman in
the Swiss Alps. Reading that Dr. Jone's wife had accidentally fallen to her death while
skiing, Mr.
Allen went to the police and told them "Jones murdered his wife". After questionting, Jones=confessed
to the crime.Ilow did Mr. Allen know? Answer: Mr. Allen is a travel agent. He r"memb"red
selling Jones
a one way ticket and a round trip ticket to Switzerland.
Story 9: A doctor was driving his son to school one day when their car wås rammed by a
truck. The
doctor was killed and his son seriously injured. The son was rushed to a nearby ¡ospital
and prepared
for surgery, howevcr, when he was wheeled into surgery the surgeon announced: can't operatã,
this
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Story 10: A mans dead body hangs form rope tied to thecenter of a ceiling beam in a large empfy
room. His feet are ten feet from the floor. Nothing else is in the room. Ansv,er: The nan climbed upon a
stack of ice, attached lhe rope and waitedfor the ice to melt.
Story ll: A gang of thieves robs a warehouse one night. They capture fwo night watchmen and place
them unharmed and unbound into the trunk of a car parked nearby. The next morning, when
employees hear sounds coming from the trunk, they open it. A man steps out, alive and well, and the
other man is dead. Answer: The survivor breathed air from the spare tire.
Story 12: A murder was committed before thousands of people, but all of them thought it was an
accident. Answer: A trapeze artist who took his cues from the organist for when to starÍ, reach and land,
to his death. The organist had purposely changed the tempt in mid-act to throw him off.
fell
Story 13: A man lies dead in a room with 53 bicycles. Answer: The man had been playing cardsfor
money. He had cheared by pulling an extra ace from his sleeve. His opponent had shot him andfled. The
bicycles are Bicycle playing cards.
Story 14: A man has been murdered while sittting int he driverrs seat of his car. Although there are
numerous bulleet wounds in the body and all the doors and windows of the car are tightly closed and
locked, there are no bullet holes anywhere in the car. Answer: The car is a converÍible with the top down.
Story 15: A man is in a cabin. There is broken glass on the floor. The man is dead. Answer: There was
plane crash and he is lying dead in an airplane cabin
a
Story ló: A woman walks into a bar and orders a glass of water. The bartender gives her the water
and points a gun at her. She says "thank you" and walks out. A¡tsutet': The bartender cured hen hiccups.
Story 17: If the man had seen the sawdust, he wouldn't have diecl. Answer: The man was a blind midget
in a circus. His compeliíor slowly, piece by piece, sawed his blind can shorter to make him tltink thal he wos
growing and wotild lose his job. The blind midget committed suicide.
Story 18: Every morning, the man walkes out of his apartment on the lSth floor, and rides the
elevator down to the lobby. Every afternoon, after work, he rides up on the eleveator to the 8th floor,
gets out and walks the rest of the way up to the lSth floor, using the stairs, except on rainy days, when
he rides the elevator all the way up to the 18th floor. Answer: The man is a midget and can't reach
buttons higher than the 9thfloor, except when he cawries his umbrella, on rainy days.
Story 19: A man with a long beard walks into a restauran and orders the albatross. Taking a bite, the
man runs from the restraunt. Answer: The man had been shipwreckedfor a long time. Not all of his ship
friends had survived. The cook hadþund some meat and cooked it up, calling it albatross. Now, eating the
albatross, he realizs that he had been ealing the flesh of hÌs deadfriends.
Story 20: During the night, while the man and his wife slept in their apartment, a storm knocked off
the electricity. In the morning, the wife was dead. Answer: His wife lived in an iron lung and diedwhen
the electricity was shut off.
Story 2lz A man is lying dead in a field next to a rock. Answer: The man is Superman and the rock is
Kryptonite.
Story 22: A man rolls a wheelbarrow up to a motel, pays some money. A little bit lager, he rolls the
wheelbarrow a\,vay. Answer: The man is playing monopoly.
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Directions: Read the scenario to the girls. Then they ask you yes or no questions to discover what happened.
Story l: The man was afraid to go home because the man with the mask was there. Answer: The man
with the mask was a catcher in a baseball team. The other man was a base ntnner.
Story 2: Dan and Don entered a tavern and were served identical drinks. Don drank is slowly and
died. Dan drank is quickly and was fine. Answer: There was poison in the ice
Story 3: A famous scientist was awarded a government prize for his invention of an new weapon. He
decided to invite a number of his friend to a party in the lab. For entertainment, he provided a
juggler, an opera soprano, and a ballet dancer. At the height of the evening, all present were suddenly
and rnysteriously killed. Answer: The soprano sang a high note, exploding the glass bonle of lethal gas, the
new weQpon
Story 4: John and Mary are on the floor. Theer are pieces of broken glass ancl a puddle of liquid also
on the floor. Mary is dead. Answer: John, a cot, knocked over afishbowl, in which, Mary, afish, lived.
Story 5: A traveior on a desserted roarl carne upon the body of a man lying by the roadsitìe, dead. The
dead man was wearing a knapsack. Thoagh therc are no marks on the body, or blood anyrvhere, the
travelor could telt immediantly thc cause of death. Answer: The knapsackwas an unopened parachtúe
Story 6: Sylvester had just recievecl a promotion in his company. To celebrate, Sylvester and his wifþ
invited his boss; his boss's wife and a party of 70 for dinner. A fire broke out during the party and no
one escaped from the room. In the morning, fireman found the bodies of only 5 people in the ruins.
Answer: There was never more than 5 people there: the man, his wife, the boss, the boss's wife and lhe party
of 70, an elderly man.
Story 7: One hundred people were traveling down the Amazon River on a flatboat when the boat, in
calm water, capsized and all were drowned. Answer: A huge snake was sighted hanging over the river
from a tree branch. The passengers panicked, and all ofthem ran to the other side ofthe boat to get away,
capsizing the boat.
Story 8: Mr. Allen was reading a newspaper and came across an article about the death of a woman in
the Swiss Alps. Reading that Dr. Jone's wife had accidentally fallen to her death while skiing, Mr.
Allen went to the police and told them "Jones murdered his wife". After questionting, Jones confessed
to the crime. How did Mr. Allen know? Answer: Mr. Allen is a travel agent. He remembered selling Jones
a one way ticket and a round trip ticket to Switzerlan
Story 9: A doctor was driving his son to school one day when their car was rammed by a truck. The
doctor was kilied and his son seriously injured. The son was rushed to a nearby hospital and prepared
for surgcly, hol€ver, when he was wheeled into surgery the surgeon announced: "I can't operate, this
is rny son." Ansiuer: the surgeonwa.s the boys ntother.
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Story 10: A mans dead body hangs form rope tied to the center of a ceiling beam in a large empty
room. His feet are ten feet from the floor. Nothing else is in the room. Answer: The man climberÌ upon a
stack of ice, attached the rope and waited
for
the ice to melt.
Story l1: A gang of thieves robs a warehouse one night. They capture two night watchmen and place
them unharmed anrl unbound into the trunk of a car parked nearby. The next morning, when
employees hear sounds coming f rom the trunk, they open it. A man steps out, alive and well, and the
other man is dead. Answer: The survivor breathed airfrom the spare tire.
Story 12: A murder was committed before thousands of people, but all of them thought it was an
accident. Answer: A trapeze artist who took his cues from the organist for when to start, reach and land, fell
to his dealh. The organist had purposely changed the tempt in mid-act to throw him off.
Story 13: A man lies dead in a room with 53 bicycles. Answer: The man had been playing cardsþr
money. He had cheated by pulling an extra acefrom his sleeve. His opponent had shot him andfled. The
bicycles are Bicycle playing cards.
Story 14: A man has been murdered while sittting int he driver's seat of his car. Although there are
numerous bulleet wounds in the body and all the doors and windows of the car are tightly closed and
locked, there are no bullet holes anywhere in the car. Answer: The car is a convertible with the top down.
Story 15: A man is in a cabin. There is broken glass on the floor. The man is dead. Answer: There was
a plane crash and he is lying dead in an airplane cabin
Story 16: A woman walks into a bar and orders a glass of water. The bartender gives her the water
and points a gun at her. She says "thank you" and walks out. Answer; The bartender cured her hiccups.
Story 17: If the man had seen the sawdust, he wouldn't have ¡Jied. Answer: The manwas a blind midget
in a circus. His competitor slowly, piece by piece, sawed his blind can shorter to make him think that he was
growing and would lose his job. The blind midgeÍ committed suicide.
Story 18: Every morning, the man walkes out of his apartment on the 18th floor, and rides the
elevator down to the lobby. Every afternoon, after work, he rides up on the eleveator to the 8th floor,
gets out and walks the rest of the way up to the lSth floor, using the stairs, except on rainy days, when
he rides the elevator all the rvay up to the 18th floor. Answer: The man is a midget and can't reach
buttons higher than the \thfloor, except when he cawries his umbrella, on rainy days.
Story 19: A man with a long beard walks into a restauran and orders the albatross. Taking a bite, the
man runs from the restraunt. Answer: The man had been shipwreckedfor a long time. Not all of his ship
friends had survived. The cook hadþund some meat and cooked it up, calling it albatross. Now, eating the
albatross, he realizs that he had been eating the flesh of his deadfriends.
Story 20: During the night, while the man and his wife slept in their apartment, a storm knocked off
the electricity. In the morning, the wife was dead. Answer: His wfe lived in an iron lung and diedwhen
the electricity was shut off.
Story 21: A man is lying dead in a field next to a rock. Answer: The man is Superman and the rock is
Kryptonite.
Story 22: Aman rolls a wheelbarrow up to a motel, pays some money. A littie bit lager, he rolls the
wheelbarrow away. ,4nswer: The man is playing monopoly.
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1. A man and his rylfe were drlving ln a car, when the wlfers behavior caus ed
hiu to stop the car and rush to the nearesÈ house. When he returned to the car,
he found hI-s poor wlfe at deathrs door and there r.ras a stranger in the car with
her. I^lhen the pollce arrlved, the did not arrest or even question the s Iranger.
How come?
2. Caleb Snathers r.¡as walking home fron the market wíÈh three nice ripe can[aloupes, when he was faced with a problem. On the footbridge v¡hich he h.ad Lo cross
there v/as a slgn announcing t.hat the bridge's capacity was two hundred pounds.
Caleb hfmself weighed a hundred nineÈy-six pounds, and the canteloupes weighed
Èwo pounds each. l{trat to do? He could, of course, make Ewo trips, but a
moment,s
reflection enabled him to figure out a way of getting himself ..rà t i. rhree
cantaloupes across safely ln one trip. How come?
3' Helen was expert at her job and always courtecus. However, o¡e day as she
was golng about her dally buslness she stepped through a door and forgot to
count.
Shortly thereafter she was dead. How come?
4' AË the end of I'Iorld l'lar rr the few scaEtered members of a once-rich and
inportant Central European farnlly who had survived concenEration camps rnanaged
to come together. The famlly fortune, al though much diminished, \Àras still of
considerable size. In due course, these few known survlvors died and the courts
began a search for a posslble helr to the estate. Two candldates showed up, both
claiming to be the sarue person - the only son of rhe last head of the famiiy.
Their storfes were slmllar (each clained I o have been i slave-labor camps); their
lnf ormacion on the f amily history was much the sã.ne; thère r,ras a superf ic iaL resemblance betr¡een the¡n so that old acqualntances could not decide r¿hich was the true
heir. The magisErate in charge of the case decided to interview them separately.
To the first candidaEe Ehe magÍsErate proposed a simple idenËity test. Buc when
the man readily agreed, Èhe uragistrate iurmediately said, "Arresi this rnan; he is
an imposter. The other is the true heir.il How come?
5' Mr. Brown was spendtng the night in a hotel in a strange city. He had never
been there before and didntt know a soul in the place (neither the hotel nor the
ctty).. He had greaL difficulty gettlng to s1eep. Try as he would, sleep simply
wouldn't come. He had a busy clay aheaã and wanted to be in good shape. He
pur
1n one telephone call--local, not long distance--and shortly thereafter he fell
lnto peaceful slumber.
How come?
6'
Mr. and Mrs. Northern rlrere returning fron a Saturday afternoon game of goLf
Mr. Northern stooped Eo pick up something from the ground. On seeing Ehj-s, ,
M¡s. Northern quickly struck at the object in her husbanã's hand vrith her putter.
She was dead in an instant. How come?
when
7, When Johnny v¡as four years old, he was senE on a railroad journey. A kindly,
urlddle-aged man puE him on the train, having made all arrangements, and entrusted
hin to the care of the authorities. There \{as no accident, Johnny was in perfect
health, the authoriries did all rhey couldr /et Johnny was unable to reach his
destfnation.
How come?
8' A man in perfect health, menEal and physical, v/as alone in a small room.
He ¡¡as not bound or tied 1n any way. The roorn had no window and the single door
was closed but noE locked. There was no obstrucEion on either side of Ehe door,
no-bolt, no keyhole. It was just a plain heavy door with an ordinary doorknob.
A flre broke out in the room, and although che man tried frantically to get out,
he was burned to death. How come?
JCLrrteS !i{1tn HOIeS
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ln the sight of a number of people,
was deliberate, the killer
rhe vlcrim a criminal, Howáve-i, ;;-.--:_""
The killing
acted largely on the evidence of the
one
-^
nded and broughr ro rrial.
The jr;;
commended extreme clemency.
The ¡uáge
free.
ttDonr
How coue?
As San listened to hls employerts words,
his honest face puckered anxiously.
t Èake that plane, pf ."r", -¡.t.. Stuart, r'he-s"id
earnestly.
"['Ihy sam' " exclaimed the banker, touched
by the o1d f ellow,s sincerity,
obvious distress. "Why not? l+h,rt ¿o you
mean?,,
and
"oh, Mr. stuart," said sam, "I had il
saw l-t crash to earth and a1r tÁe people dream about that prane last night. I
aboard r+ere killed.
There was a terribre
explosion and---oh, it was awful!"' rt" poo.-^J.,'ro.
armost ín Ëears.
The bank president paÈted his arm
and, to quiet him, said, ,,Thank you, Sam,
I|11 see about it," and proceeded
into rhe bank to geÈ his papers
Despite the old mants warning, I[r. Stuart
<lid take the plane, and vou will
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be rell-eved to know, there was no accident. Returníng to phoenixville, the bank
presidentrs first acElon was to fire the night watchman, Sam. How come?
f6. A man, going about his daity occupation, brushed against a rock and tore his
sleeve. A few minutes later he was dead. Hor¡ come?
17. llhen Mr. and Mrs. Greene returned to their upper East Side aparÈnent in
after a night aÈ the opera, they l¡rere horrlfied to find the scene that
met their eyes ln thelr handsome living room. There were Sam and Luella, completely naked! Luella ltas on the floor dead; Sam was asleep on the sofa. How
New York
come?
ANSWERS _ STORIES
WII'H HOLES - PART
II
I.
The stranger was a newborn baby.
)
He
3.
she was a parachuÈisr,, and dfdnrt pull the ripcord ln time.
juggled the cantaloupes.
4.
The proposed ldentlty test r¡/as a slnple blood tesÈ. The nagistrate knew
thaÈ Ehe true helr would never have agreed to such a !est, since the faniJ-y in
question were well-known to be carrl-ers of a hemophiJ-ia straln, and that for a
henophiliac (or bleeder) even a small scraÈch ls a terrifying, and potentially
fatal, prospect.
5. He couldntt go to sleep because the man next. door snored. Bro¡,m rang the
nlghE clerk, who telephoned che snorerts room and woke him up. Lrlhen the no j-se
stopped, Mr. Brom had no Ërouble ln dozlng off.
6. The obJect v,'as a live wire. Mrs. Northern in her effort to protect her
husband (who, by the way, was beyond all earthly ald, having been electrocuted
the moment his hand touched rhe lethal object), forgor that her putLer was made
of steel . So sl-re, too, was elect.rocuÈed.
7.
Johnny was a llrt1e
goar, and he had eaten his tag.
8. The man was an Amerlcan rndian, accustomed Eo tepee life.
a doorknob before and dldntt know hor¿ it worked.
9.
Hetd never seen
Thls took place during the Civll l^lar or, as some pref er to call lt, th.e
the States. The principals of our study rã.". Union soldier and
soldier.
I^Iar BeEween
Conf ederat.e
a
10. Horace did noc know how to swim when he took a smal1 sailboat out alone for
the first time. A brlsk breeze blew up. I^lishing to change his direction, he
trled to tack, but he pushed the tiller the rùrong e¡ay. The boat jibbed, the
boom sl,¡ung around and knocked htm overboard, and he r.¡as dror¿ned.
l1' The murderer and Èhe eyewitness were Slamese twins, and one could not be
punÍshed without involvlng his lnnocent brother. Incidentally, should
the questioners proceed to the pol-nt of ask-ing if the murderer and thl e;rewitness were
ldentical twins, the aûswer isrrlmmaÈerial" since Siamese tv¡ins may or may not
be identical twins, but dld not know that
case, but tlr-e -cap ta i - . for what he conslder{d
Navy a few years ago.
I
13' They were flash bulbs which, as you know, can be used only once.
who r¿¿¡s no photographer, used them up when she tested them.
Jane,
L4. Mr. Jones vtas a midget and could only reach as high-as 14 on the elevator's
panel of push-buttons. Some criEics have compla:-àed th. rr:. he could have kept a
1itt1e stool in the elevator, or provided hirnself with ã 1o.tg stick, bur the
problem is so pleasing thaÈ we pay these people no mind. Incidentally, there
have been some frivolous variants on this one - the giant who could ride up all
the way but had to walk part r^ray doqm because he couldntt reach the bottom button;
and the gianE and the midget who lived on the same floor and could only ride all
the way' up or down, if both were in the elevator at the same Eime. Want to try
some of your own?
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Answers
15. Night watchuen have
keep awake on duty.
no
business dreaming at night.
Th"ytre supposed to
16' He was a deep-sea diver. obvlously, when che fabric
of hls suit was torn,
the water rushed tn and drowned hln.
L7. Sam was a dog who had overturned the flsh bowl in whlch Luella,
rhe gold_
fish, lived. Luella, poor Èhlng, had gasped her
rast
on
Ehe
floor,
while
sam,
una!/are - or heedless _ of Èhe enormlty of his mlsdeed,
was
quletly
sleeping.
If Sa¡n had been a cat, lt ls unllkely that Luellars body would
h..r. been
found.
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