The Will
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
Detective Tannaj was looking at the dead body that lay sprawled on the ground. She noticed that the man had a great collection of Greek mythology ornaments. He had huge crystal statues of Zeus and the other gods and goddesses. A policeman handed the man's will to the detective. The will read:
"I, Thomas Moore III, do give all of my land, my home, and my beautiful platinum statue of Venus to my Daughter Cynthia Cordelia."
That night Cynthia Cordelia was arrested for murder and forgery. Why?
Answer
The man was a great collector of GREEK mythology. When Detective Tannaj saw that the statue was referred to as "Venus" in the will, she got suspicious. Surely the old man would have known that Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love, not Venus (who is the ROMAN goddess of love).
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frankenweoburger
Mar 31, 2003
| I got it after thinking for a while. Good one! |
griphook 
Apr 01, 2003
| A teaser inspired by the goddess of beauty. More please. |
Drunky 
Apr 01, 2003
| Nice one. Good thing I learned mythology in school or I wouldnt have got this one  |
Christina0213
Apr 01, 2003
| That was wonderful! good job |
blububble
Apr 03, 2003
| This is cute. |
jimbo
Apr 05, 2003
| I don't personally like teasers that give false information. There is nothing in the wording that suggests that he thought that Venus was Greek. You might as well say the detective was mistaken about the heredity of the ornaments. Why can't he give Venus to his daughter and all his Greek statues to the Greek museum? It occurred to me that Venus was not Greek but so what? |
WhAcKo1
Apr 05, 2003
| Hehehe good one. I got it after 5 seconds though. LOL |
angel_baby12
Apr 10, 2003
| I didn't see how the answer related to why the daughter was accused of murder |
smartgirl2000
Apr 15, 2003
| That was good, but another way I thought of was that the detective saw crystal statues. The will said a platinum statue. |
rose_rox
May 14, 2003
| angelbaby12, the relation between Venus and the daughter getting arrested, is that *most likely* the daughter killed her father. She probably forged the note to get a hold of the statues, and didn't know anything about Greek mythology. |
adoontourious
May 20, 2003
| i like it |
oosunshyneoo
Jul 11, 2004
| I rated it as hard because I don't know Greek Mythology that well, but I do have a great interest in the subject. GoodOne!  |
accordionman
Jul 12, 2004
| That made me think for a bit. Easy enough to get it, but hard enough to make you think. Excellent riddle. |
(user deleted)
May 15, 2005
| smartgirl2000-That's what I thought!  |
froggygg
Jun 12, 2005
| Good teaser. Had to think about that one!
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sweetime
Jul 07, 2005
| jimbo - the teaser didn't actually give out false information.
Aphrodite and Venus are the same deity, it's just that one is Roman and one is Greek. Therefore, if the father was a collector of Greek mythology he would refer to the statue as being of Aphrodite. A person who collected Roman mythology would refer to her as Venus. Therefore, when the Will stated that the statue of Venus was being given to the daughter, it meant that the Will hadn't been written by the father. |
srpwuzhere
Nov 16, 2008
| i thought it was cause they had differnet last names :\
but she's probably married |
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