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- 1. In the middle of the ocean is a yacht. Several corpses are
- floating in the water nearby.
- 2. Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice all live in the same house. Bob
- and Carol go out to a movie, and when they return, Alice is lying dead
- on the floor in a puddle of water and glass. It is obvious that Ted
- killed her but Ted is not prosecuted or severely punished.
- 3. A woman comes home with a bag of groceries, gets the mail, and
- walks into the house. On the way to the kitchen, she goes through the
- living room and looks at her husband, who had blown his brains out. She
- then continues to the kitchen, puts away the groceries, and makes
- dinner.
- 4. A body is discovered in a park in Chicago in the middle of summer.
- It has a fractured skull and many other broken bones, but the cause of
- death was hypothermia.
- 5. 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.
- 6. A woman has incontrovertible proof in court that her husband was
- murdered by her sister. The judge declares, "This is the strangest case
- I've ever seen. Though it's a cut-and-dried case, this murderess cannot
- be punished."
- 7. A man walks into a bar and asks for a drink. The bartender pulls
- out a gun and points it at him. The man says, "Thank you," and walks
- out.
- 8. A man is in a returning from Switzerland by train. If he had been
- in a non-smoking car he would have died.
- 9. Music stops and a woman dies.
- 10. A man goes into a restaurant, orders abalone, eats one bite, and
- kills himself.
- 11. A man is found hanging in a locked room with no furniture and a
- puddle of water under his feet.
- 12. A man is dead in a puddle of blood and water on the floor of a
- locked room.
- 13. A man is lying, dead, face down in the desert wearing a backpack.
- 14. A man is lying face down, dead, in the desert, with a match near
- his outstretched hand. He is nude.
- 15. A man is driving his car. He turns on the radio, listens for
- five minutes, turns around, goes home, and shoots his wife.
- 16. A man driving his car turns on the radio. He then pulls over to
- the side of the road and shoots himself.
- 17. A man is dead in a room with a small pile of pieces of wood and
- sawdust in one corner.
- 18. A pile of sawdust, no net, a man dies.
- 19. A rope breaks. A bell rings. A man dies.
- 20. A man sitting on a park bench reads a newspaper article headlined
- "Death at Sea" and says, "A murder has been committed!"
- 21. A man is riding a subway. He meets a one-armed man, who pulls
- out a gun and shoots him.
- 22. Two women are talking. One goes into the bathroom, comes out
- five minutes later, and kills the other.
- 23. A man is sitting in bed. He makes a phone call, says nothing,
- then goes to sleep.
- 24. A man kills his wife, then goes inside his house and kills
- himself.
- 25. Abel walks out of the ocean. Cain asks him who he is, and Abel
- answers. Cain kills Abel.
- 26. Two men, one big and burly and the other short and thin, enter a
- bar. They both order identical drinks. The big one gulps his down and
- leaves; the other sips his slowly, then dies.
- 27. Joe leaves his house, wearing a mask and carrying an empty sack.
- An hour later he returns. The sack is now full. He goes into a room
- and turns out the lights.
- 28. A man takes a two week cruise to Mexico from the U.S. Shortly
- after he gets back, he takes a three day cruise which doesn't stop at
- any other ports. He stays in his cabin all the time on both cruises.
- As a result, he makes $250,000.
- 29. Hans and Fritz are German spies during World War II. They try to
- enter America, posing as returning tourists. Hans is immediately
- arrested.
- 30. Tim and Greg were talking. Tim said "The terror of flight".
- Greg said "The gloom of the grave". Greg was arrested.
- 31. A man is found dead in his parked car. Tire tracks lead up to
- the car and away.
- 32. A man dies in his own home.
- 33. A woman in Paris in 1895 is waiting for her husband to come home.
- When he arrives, the house has burned to the ground and she's dead.
- 34. A man gets onto an elevator. When the elevator stops, he knows
- his wife is dead.
- 35. A policeman follows a burglar into a bar. When he enters the bar
- he finds a set of identical twins, dressed the same, with the loot
- between them. After several minutes he arrests one of the twins.
- 36. She lost her job when she invited them to dinner.
- 37. He couldn't find a chair, so he died.
- 38. A car without a driver moves; a man dies.
- 39. As I drive to work on my motorcycle, there is one corner which I
- go around at a certain speed whether it's rainy or sunny. If it's
- cloudy but not raining, however, I usually go faster.
- 40. A woman throws something out a window and dies.
- 41. An avid birdwatcher sees an unexpected bird. Soon he's dead.
- 42. A man shoots himself, and dies.
- 43. A man walks into a room, shoots, and kills himself.
- 44. Adults are holding children, waiting their turn. The children are
- handed (one at a time, usually) to a man, who holds them while a woman
- shoots them. If the child is crying, the man tries to stop the crying
- before the child is shot.
- 45. A man marries twenty women in his village but isn't charged with
- polygamy.
- 46. There are two people dead in a cabin in the woods.
- 47. A man pushes a car up to a hotel and realizes he's bankrupt.
- 48. She said "I love you," and died.
- 49. As a man jumps out of a window, he hears the telephone ring. He
- tries to stop himself, but can't.
- 50. A man is found dead on the floor in the living room.
- 51. A man is sitting in a train compartment. He sees a
- three-fingered hand through the compartment window, in the hallway of
- the train. He opens the compartment door and shoots the person with the
- three-fingered hand, but he goes free.
- 52. There is a dead man lying in the desert next to a rock.
- 53. A man is found dead in the arctic with a pack on his back.
- 54. A man is lying dead in a room. There is a large pile of gold,
- jewels, and so on on the floor, a chandelier attached to the ceiling,
- and a large window through which rays are coming.
- 55. A man goes home, turns out the light, and goes to bed. He wakes
- up the next morning, reads the newspaper, and kills himself.
- 56. A raft carrying passengers took a trip down the Amazon. The raft
- capsized, and no survivors were found.
- 57. A man is lying dead in a pool of blood and glass.
- 58. A woman walks up to a door and knocks. Another woman answers the
- door. The woman outside kills the woman inside.
- 59. There is blood on the ceiling of my bedroom.
- 60. A woman goes into a convenience store to buy a can of Coke. She
- pays for it with a $20 bill and receives $20.05 in change. No mistake
- was made.
- 61. A newspaper reported the following: "Yesterday, Jacques Dubois
- finished first in the walking race held in Paris. He walked 62,137
- miles." The article was not in error.
- 62. Two children born in the same hospital, in the same hour, day,
- and year, have the same mother and father, but are not twins.
- 63. A couple will build a square house. In each wall they'll have a
- window, and each window will face north.
- 64. There are a pipe, a carrot and a pile of pebbles together in the
- middle of a field.
- 65. The telephone rang in the middle of the night and the woman woke
- up. When she answered it the caller hung up. The caller felt better.
- 66. The seals came up to do their show but immediately dove back into
- the water.
- 67. A man is found dead in an alley lying in a pool of red with two
- sticks crossed near his head.
- 68. A man called to a waiter in a restaurant, "There's a fly in my
- tea!" "I will bring you a fresh cup of tea," said the waiter. After a
- few moments, the man called out, "This is the same cup of tea!" How did
- he know?
- 69. A man is found dead outside a large marble building with three
- holes in him.
- 70. An ordinary American citizen, with a clean police record but no
- passport, managed to visit over thirty foreign countries. He was
- welcomed in each country, and left each one of his own accord. He did
- this in one day.
- 71. Three heavy people try to crowd under one umbrella, and nobody
- gets wet.
- 72. A black man dressed all in black, wearing a black mask, stands at
- a crossroads in a totally black-painted town. All of the streetlights
- in town are broken. There is no moon. A black-painted car without
- headlights drives straight toward him, but turns in time and doesn't hit
- him.
- 72. The wind stopped blowing and the man died.
- 74. An Arab sheikh 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.
- 75. A man puts a quarter down, and leaves.
- 76. A man lies dead next to a feather.
- 77. A man carrying an attache case full of $20 bills falls on the way
- to the bank and is never seen again.
- 78. The pope is giving a speech. A man in the audience shoots the
- mayor who is behind the pope.
- 79. A man travels to twenty countries and stays in each country for a
- month. During this time he never sees the light of day.
- 80. King Henry VIII is lying at the bottom of the stairs with a gash
- across his face.
- 81. Joe wants to go home, but he can't go home, because the man
- in the mask is waiting for him.
- 82. A man lies dead in a room with fifty-three bicycles in front of
- him.
- 83. Two people are playing cards. One looks around and realizes he's
- going to die.
- 84. A woman opens an envelope and dyes.
- 85. A man is holding a box. Though he cannot see into it, he knows
- what's inside.
- 86. A man was walking along some railroad tracks when he noticed that
- a train was coming. He walked toward the train before stepping aside.
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- 87. A man was going about his daily occupation when he noticed that
- his shirt was torn. 15 minutes later, he was dead.
- 88. A train pulls into a station, but none of the waiting passengers
- move.
- 89. In his own home a man watches as a woman dies, yet does nothing
- to save her.
- 90. There is a dead man, a beetle on top of a book, and a pile of
- bricks.
- 91. A dish moves, a scientist makes a discovery.
- 92. A man is alone on an island with no food and no water, yet he
- does not fear for his life.
- 93. A husband coming home hears his wife call "Bill, don't kill me!".
- He walks in and finds his wife dead. Inside are a postman, a doctor,
- and a lawyer. The husband immediately knows the postman killed his
- wife.
- 94. Bruce wins the race, but he gets no trophy.
- 95. A man rolls over a glass bottle. He travels the last 100 miles
- of the Sahara 5000 roadrace with a flat tire.
- 96. Man pleads with boss not to fly to Chicago. The boss goes and
- when he returns, he fires the man.
- 97. On an archeological dig, the frozen remains of a man and woman
- are found. Immediately, the archeologists realize that the remains are
- those of Adam and Eve.
- 98. A horse jumps over a tower and lands on a man, who disappears.
- 99. It's the year 860 A.D., at Camelot. Two priests are sitting in
- the castle's chapel. The queen attacks the king. The two priests rise,
- shake hands, and leave the room.
- 100. Two people are talking long distance on the phone; one is in an
- East-Coast state, the other is in a West-Coast state. The first asks
- the other "What time is it?", hears the answer, and says, "That's funny.
- It's the same time here!"
- 101. A boy and his father are injured in a car accident. Both are
- taken to a hospital. The father dies at arrival, but the boy lives
- and is taken to surgery. A grey-haired, bespectacled surgeon looks at
- the boy and says, "I cannot operate on this boy -- he's my son."
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