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There is a room with a table, 53 bicycles, and four men. One of the four men is dead. How did he die?
The “bicycles” are the (famous) Bicycle playing cards. The four men were playing poker, but one of them was cheating with an extra card, so he got killed.
In 1972 there was a chess game between two famous players. One of them lost the game without moving any pieces. How?
It was the game in 1972 between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, when Bobby Fischer’s clock ran out of time. Fischer himself even did not appear for the game due to his protest against the cameras installed in the playing hall.
The director of a company wakes up early for a morning flight. He realizes that he forgot some papers at work and goes there. In the office, he meets the night watchman who is leaving for home. The watchman stops the director and tells him that he shouldn’t fly. “I had a dream last night,” the watchman says, “I saw you crash. I saw you die sir, please do not fly today.”
The director listens to the advice of the watchman and decides not to travel. On the next day, the director returns, gives the watchman a generous bonus, and then he fires him. Why?
The plane indeed crashed, so the watchman saved the director’s live. However, apparently, he has been sleeping during his shift, which is the reason the director fires him.
One night, a man received a call from the Police. The Police told the man that his wife was murdered, and that he should get to the crime scene as soon as possible. The man immediately hung up the phone and drove his car for 20 minutes. As soon as he got to the crime scene, the Police arrested him, and he got convicted for murder.
How did the Police know that the man committed the crime?
The police did not tell the man where the crime scene was.
A man is lying dead in a field. Next to him, there is an unopened package. There are no other people or animals in the field. How did he die?
The man was sky diving and his parachute did not open.
