A man was killed on Sunday morning. His wife found the body and called the police. The police arrived and questioned the chef, maid, butler, and gardener. Their alibis were:
Chef – making breakfast Maid – getting mail Butler – setting table Gardener – watering plants
The police immediately arrested the criminal. Who was it and how did they know?
Six glasses are all in a row in front of you, the first three are full of grape juice and the last three are empty. Moving only one glass, how can you make all six alternate between full and empty?
The man is playing monopoly, and landed on the Go To Jail space. An alternative version of this is, “A man stops his car in front of a hotel and immediately knows he is bankrupt.” The answer is the same, that he’s playing Monopoly, but this time he landed on a space with a hotel and didn’t have enough money to pay the bill.
The answer to each clue is a single, 100-point word, or a word whose letters add up to 100, with a = 1, b = 2. I wrote this word value calculator so you can easily check your guesses.
i. Peanut butter tastes like this. ii. The hat a Dad wears. iii. To fire a chef, iv. A smart timepiece. v. Figured it out again. vi. Where a kid can sleep. vii. The magical fruit leaves you doing this. viii. Betrayed for this much silver. ix. A baked good that is height challenged. x. A sticky way to neaten your hair.