The Broken Vase
Mystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.
One day, Jessica Brown and Arthur Brown, the parents of Jenny and Harry Brown, awoke to find one of their valuable vases broken on the ground. They immediately suspected that either their children, Jenny or Harry, or their Yorkshire Terrier, Hershey, had somehow accidentally broken it.
Both parents didn't want to punish anyone before they knew who had done it, so they investigated the "crime scene". They found a long piece of brown hair. That didn't help much, since oddly, all the Browns had brown hair, and so did Hershey. Unfortunately, that was all that they found.
After Arthur thought about it for a while, he knew who had broken the vase. Who broke it, and how did Arthur know?
HintThe piece of hair is very important.
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Answer
Jenny Brown had broken the vase. Arthur knew this because she was the only person (other than Jessica, the mom) who had long hair. Boys tend to have short hair, and Yorkshire Terriers normally do not shed. After being accused, Jenny admitted that she had clumsily knocked the vase over when she wasn't paying much attention.
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BeanSC  
Jun 05, 2010
| I assumed the hair was Jenny's but decided that Harry had broken the vase and had placed her hair there to set her up! Oh well! |
beyonce123
Jun 07, 2010
| Kinda easy but really good. |
lunarrainbow 
Jun 09, 2010
| The hair could have just fallen there randomly! |
cutieluck 
Jun 10, 2010
| cant it be jessica cuz shes also a girl and she mightve tried to just blame her daughter and dat was pretty easy  |
Marple
Jun 11, 2010
| That's a little bit biased these days. Not all boys have short hair!  |
logicgenius
Jun 11, 2010
| I agree with Marple. I have long hair and I'm a boy! |
precious1026
Jun 20, 2010
| this teaser should have been a situation teaser. As a mystery this teaser lack Clues... It must give a a number of clues to induce thought or trigger the mind into action. This teaser lack all those qualities and events that would make it a geniune Mystery. Jenny had long hair. How the heck did we know this?   |
mizchey
Jul 12, 2010
| There are not enough clues, and the one clue isn't interesting or something we'd assume since you can be any gender with any hair length. |
unklemyke
Aug 16, 2010
| Whew- where to start? Mr Brown accused Jenny on the strength of some long hair? So is Mrs Brown such a sterling housekeeper that no hair ever remains on the floor for more that a day?  and "Yorkies don't shed"? but if they are jumping about excitedly enough to knock over the vase, they could also lose a lock of hair. Are our editors asleep at the switch here? I agree that this would be better in the "Situation" category.  |
cutieluck
Oct 07, 2010
| commenting again... jenny doesnt HAVE to have long hair! I mean she could have short hair like a boy! so i agree, this teaser should be in the SITUATION category |
kittygirl19
Dec 27, 2010
| Jenny is sorry!  |
geekymeek
Feb 21, 2011
| I agree about the whole situation thing. This really isn't fair because it does lack clues and there are many other explanations for why a piece of hair is there. Way to be biased. |
Illusionist
Feb 23, 2011
| I agree. This quiz has many to few clues to ACTUALLY figure it out.  Also females tend to have long hair, but some women prefer short hair. And boys have short hair because THEY tend to cut it short, but it does not have to be that way. I know various boys that have longer hair than girls I know. It also could have been the girl, because since you're saying all females have long hair (not true) it could EASILY be the girl! Bad work bad work! |
shlee
Feb 27, 2011
| Sorry guys for this teaser 
it was my first one and i realize that i made a lot of mistakes...
thanks for the advice  |
princess2007
Mar 14, 2011
| For a first one, it was pretty good! But maybe you could have included a hint like this was a very conventional household or idk old england!? i got it but i had to make the assumption that the guy didnt have long hair and the girl didnt have short hair. fun tho! |
Jeppydog
Mar 21, 2011
| I like that this mystery was short but interesting. I thought it was the dog because his hair had a different texture and they noticed that. |
s75morse
Apr 16, 2011
| I was thinking it was the dog because the two kids (in theory, and that's all we have with this puzzle" should have been intelligent enough to clean it up! |
Thekid4
Jun 24, 2011
| I thought it was Harry because their last names are all "brown" and they all have brown hair I thought that Harry was hairy. |
BookwormAnG
Sep 07, 2011
| Way easy but great explaination |
Benjiboo
Nov 21, 2011
| yahoo its a girl! i hate girls (except my mum and sis :lol |
Marple
Dec 29, 2011
| I knew the answer straight away but some boys do have long hair! |
Vivica
Jul 10, 2012
| Oh, I hate gender stereotypes like this... What a bunch of BS |
ursulanq
Nov 20, 2012
| Nice!! Pretty easy, but a good one. |
Rileyd
Feb 24, 2013
| Pretty easy |
starwarsfan7533
Mar 31, 2013
| Yeah ok guys it is a little biased but there are thousands more teasers on this site that you can check out. If this was your first teaser, well done! It wasn't BAD WORK BAD WORK whatsoever !! |
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