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Sherlock Holmes
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Puzzle ID: #10855
Submitted By: allenpitcher26 Corrected By: ace_of_spades
Submitted By: allenpitcher26 Corrected By: ace_of_spades
Mystery
Mystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.Mystery
One snowy night, Sherlock Holmes was in his house sitting by a fire. All of a sudden a snowball came crashing through his window, breaking it.
Holmes got up and looked out the window just in time to see three neighborhood kids who were brothers run around a corner. Their names were John Crimson, Mark Crimson and Paul Crimson.
The next day Holmes got a note on his door that read "? Crimson. He broke your window."
Which of the three Crimson brothers should Sherlock Holmes question about the incident?
Holmes got up and looked out the window just in time to see three neighborhood kids who were brothers run around a corner. Their names were John Crimson, Mark Crimson and Paul Crimson.
The next day Holmes got a note on his door that read "? Crimson. He broke your window."
Which of the three Crimson brothers should Sherlock Holmes question about the incident?
Answer
Mark Crimson"?" = question MARK, so the note on the door reads "Question Mark Crimson. He broke your window."
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I'd question them all anyway. Good Teaser!
Oh that's neat!!!
Keep 'em coming! :-)
Keep 'em coming! :-)
Very cool. More please.
I got that one right!!!!!!!Oh darn i got this song stuck in my head.
Great. I thought it was all three...
Very creative, and fun! Thanx.
Nice one I loved it
lol, I liked this one. It was actually funny now I got the right answer but not for that reason. I just guessed lol PE@CE Millionaire
Very clever. Thanks for posting it for us.
Really cute, so far the only one I like.
funniest brain teaser i eva read! never heard it. at first i didnt get it when it just said mark crimson then i got it!! awesome joke!
i woulda just taken them all out..then u wouldve had to have got the right one..at the expense f the other 2..but they probably deserve it anyway!
'speed reading' this morning, and I missed the ? - darn - excellent, fun teaser, thanks
That was fun.. and I got it right
very nice, it was fun and I got it right. good job.
NICE! I guessed MARK, but for the wrong reason. I guessed Mark because he was the brother who 'hit his mark'. nice job!
Very good. Liked this one.
Neat Teaser! I got it right away, Still good thought. Keep 'em comin'!
I got it! Too easy!
Nice teaser. I love mysyeries.
Aug 26, 2004
Wow
Very fun but very easy
Very fun but very easy
That was very clever
Kind of funny but tooooo easy
i thought maybe it was a typo but i get it now.
i think they were all accessories!
wow that one was really good!
Feb 25, 2005
Stupid ... no offense
Got me with that one. I just read it as "Question Coslin." Good one.
hi. Great teaser. I actually got it.
That was really good
That was pretty easy, I figured it out right after I read it! Thanks anyways, it was a good teaser!
Apr 05, 2005
Very creative and interesting, though easy.
Very nice! I enjoyed this one!
Apr 05, 2005
brilliant
Loved It!
I got it right, but I thought it was beause he hit the "mark"
I got it right, but I thought it was beause he hit the "mark"
wonderful. it reminds me of those 2 minute mysteries that i used to read as a teen. only this was a 2 second mystery
Bravo! a good thinking persons teaser more like it,it may take a few minutes to figure out, but in this day of instant gratification,take the time, your mind will thank you for it.
that was VERY GOOD
Great teaser
Aimeekspice- Did you really have to use that many faces?
Aimeekspice- Did you really have to use that many faces?
Groan. Easy peasy!
the mark part was corny but i woulda questioned all 3 ov em
oops i didnt see the "?" oh well!
that was a good one
i didn't get it until i read the answer, but i liked it anyways.
i didn't get it until i read the answer, but i liked it anyways.
ewe dew knot half too bee Sherlock Holmes two fig your Aldus won!
Apr 06, 2005
I am new to the site and this was the best daily teaser so far.
Very challenging first thing in the morning!
YAY i figured it out!
This one was real easy. I think I may have heard it before.
I liked that one! Nice!
didn't even see the ? in the note. yeah, i'm good at reading . nice teaser though.
Why'd he need to question mark it tells him in the note
The game is afoot!
i love that one i actually got it right when i read it! it was great
Apr 22, 2005
thats cool! i never wuld have guessed tho thats a good 1!
good one
Elementary, my dear Watson!...LOL....I loved it, but I am addicted to Holmes....I am currently collecting the old movies on DVD....
cute cute cute
awesome!!!!!
nice job man! U get my thunbs up!
Hehehe....i like i like!!! ....one of the ones that makes u go "oooooooh!" hehe....in my faves already!
That was a really cool teaser, loved it!
Excellent job! Keep up the good work
that was cool
Super easy, but extremely FUN! I love these mystery teasers. Keep them coming!
Great, why can't I every remember that?
Great, why can't I every remember that?
Sorry Couldn't remember I clicked either
Good teaser. I actually thought John because the question mark is an upside down j (pretty much)
Hehe very clever.
This was in a book also.
VEEEEEEEEEEEERY cool. Loved it!
haha , very nice, i LOVE it!
very clever
ssooooo cute!!!! going into my favs mos def!
LOL tat was a gr8 one and i got it! excellent teaser!
nice one!
? this one a winner.
ELEMENTARY
I actually got it, by using MARK. I didn't use QUESTION though. Pretty good teaser.
I wanted to make the connection to these brothers to their bibical name sakes. I thought John was beyond reproach, as John the Baptist is a major figure and revered by all. So I left with Paul and Mark, I saw Paul as the more important of the two. Which left Mark. Then I get the right answer for the wrong reason I credit the teaser more highly because of it's ability to mislead, an indication of a well thought out puzzle. Well done, I had fun and I must be more careful in the future.
I got it, yay!!!!! The only reason I got it, tho, is because there's a guy on this site called "Question Mark", and I thought Mark as soon as I saw the "question mark". Really good teaser!
btw: akg said he hates "gay riddles, gay songs, etc." in his comment. Why is that OK? That comment was made like two years ago! I don't care what shade of meaning calling something "gay" is supposed to have, it's a hateful use of the word, its def. not good, and if anyone used any similar word about any other minority it would be immediately deleted!
btw: akg said he hates "gay riddles, gay songs, etc." in his comment. Why is that OK? That comment was made like two years ago! I don't care what shade of meaning calling something "gay" is supposed to have, it's a hateful use of the word, its def. not good, and if anyone used any similar word about any other minority it would be immediately deleted!
I liked this one. Good teaser.
I guessed it rite but for the wrong reason good one!
cute, very cute......
akg keep your snide comments clean and pleasant please.no more derogatory comments!!
YAY i got one for once!!!YAY YAY YAY!!!! Righteous
I'm with shawneeo and saleprice. There are a couple of people who use that term regularly and inappropriately. I click on "This is Offensive," but I don't know if it changes anything.
Now - for the teaser - L VED it!!! By some stroke of genius (or luck), I got it right away. But it was still highly entertaining and clever!
Now - for the teaser - L VED it!!! By some stroke of genius (or luck), I got it right away. But it was still highly entertaining and clever!
Very Clever! Twas awesome, and fun!
Great job!
Great job!
CLEVER I LIKE IT
lame.....very lame indeed.
I didn't get it....he he he...I HAD to look at the answer...I guess I'm slow today.
Read too fast and missed the "?". So I didn't get it.
I thought that was so cool! It was very interesting. I would have never thought of that one. I had to read it twice before I got it but that's ok. It takes me a minute. Great one though.
I am so new at the teasers and such. Hope to try more of them . Maybe I will get a bit smarter. enjoyed this one a lot
I REALLY LOVED THIS ONE. I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE REALLY HARD (THATS WHY I DIDNT GET IT
) BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY VERY EASY. GREAT TEASER! DEFINATELY GOING TO MY FAVORITES. WOW! KEEP THEM COMING!
) BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY VERY EASY. GREAT TEASER! DEFINATELY GOING TO MY FAVORITES. WOW! KEEP THEM COMING!
Thought this one was very clever. The ? really gave it away!! Thanks for a good brain teaser.
Loved it
great-- keep them coming!!
5 smileys!!!!
5 smileys!!!!
I didn't get the answer at all. When I read the answer, I went, "Oh, my God!" It was so simple and if I wasn't so blasted literal in my thinking, I may have seen the answer right away.
I loved it!!
I loved it!!
I got it right but for the wrong reason, ie, Mark (marksman).
omg, i actually got that one! yay!
it was really good!
Great!
That was very cleaver. I thought it was cute.
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yeah, it was gud... n i lyk sherlock holmes...
Again, I got in too big of a hurry and didn't see the ? or didn't understand it, or something. Was a cute teaser anyhow. And welcome back Besa Have missed you.
shouldn't this be in trick or rebus???
oh well...
(by the way, i got it after reading the note out loud)
oh well...
(by the way, i got it after reading the note out loud)
Haha, cute. I got it
Clever...easy, but clever. And fun.
This was great!
GR8 teaser!
Very clever. Very fun. Made me Smile. (and not just because I got it)
Got it quickly, but very clever.
Clever!
Thanks! I LOVED this one! It was clever and it was fun!
I share these teasers with my teenage grandkids - THEY are also clever and fun!
I share these teasers with my teenage grandkids - THEY are also clever and fun!
Great Teaser!!! I got it. Keep up the good work.
pretty good teaser. i got the question part, but not the question mark, so i came up with "question crimson" which told me nothing i didnt already know.
not as fun this year as in years past.
With hundreds of teasers we should be able to go at least two years before we repeat
With hundreds of teasers we should be able to go at least two years before we repeat
too easy but cute
Excellent teaser. Can't believe I didn't see it last year, but I didn't. Glad I saw it this year. The answer was much better than the one I came up with which was he should question all three. What was I thinking?
Kindergarden material
yawn
Wow- so much easier the second time around
Good one! I actually got it
Yay!
Yay!
i love pusslez like this
event hough i didn't get it
event hough i didn't get it
I have seen this one before. But, still cute.
Easy enough when you think about it!
Very good! It does seem to be easy when you think about it, but I believe you should question ALL three of them, anyway! Keep up the terrific work!
omgsh i should known!!!
That was easy, but fun.
Took me a min. but eventually the little grey cells went to work, to borrow a phrase from M. Poirot !
Keep up the good work.
Keep up the good work.
It was a little on the easy side, but I liked it all the same.
That was a fun teaser but it was too easy!
Yes i agree with you merrypippin!!
merrypippin246 to you!!!
srry
LOL, I was actually 'laughing out loud' this time...maybe cause there's no one in the room MuahAhaHa
Great Teaser!!!!!!
Great Teaser!!!!!!
Excellent!!
good one
M E S S A G E
M E
P L E A S E
M E S S A G E
M E
P L E A S E
LOVE IT!! this was funny it was so obvious and i didnt get it!
good one
good one
LOVED IT!! DEFINITELY GOING ON MY FAVES!!!
i liked it, mostly because I got it. it was cute though. I almost missed the fact that the question mark was inside the parenthesis. I thought that was a great teaser!
DUH.......IM A DUMMY TODAY....COULDNT GET IT......GIMME SOME JUMBLES OR CRYTPOQUOTES - I CAN BREAK CODE.... CAN U???
a little too easy for Mr Holmes
I hope Mark has allowance $ to pay for that! Got it after reading it a second time.
Loved this one! I got it but it did make me slow down a little. A+++!
I love mysteries! I actually got this one after the second reading. Well done!
Cute. Easy. A joy to get in my email today!
i got it!!!
wow there are a lot of comments on this one! easy but fun!
best one i've read thus far
$ourDough gives this the best score so far! Kudos to the writer! Four Thumbs Up!
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I liked that
I have seem this question a lot of times... so it is very easy and a little broing...
Easy, but an excellent teaser.
Give me a break. This was on a kindergarden quiz. And all the kids got it right.
that means it probably wasn't mark. It was probably from one of mark's brothers and said brother was really the one who broke the window
I liked it. Had to think for a minute and got it. Just the way a short little brain teaser should be. Cheers
Loved this one before, love it still. Cute & clever. Thanks.
Good one.
This one was too easy! Naturally you would question Mark?
easy but very nice,
Apr 02, 2012
so who write the note?
Someone tell me why my 9 year old brother got it before I did!?! lol
I got that one so fast it even shocked me! Really cute though
? for sure, but never trust any of those Crimson brothers.
It's been 10 years since Mark broke the window. Did he for the replacement yet?
and this is why I need these-I thought I'd looked at all the possibilities Loved the answer!
Sure it's been posted before, but it's still cute and clever. Love it!
Cute Teaser - I had to read it twice for it to soak in!
Very easy.
Sorry that was way to easy. When I figure it out just by reading it, that's very easy, but thanks for posting.
It still was fun.
It still was fun.
Haha, I found it very clever. I didn't get it, I guess I'm a bit slower than this person^ :-)
Sep 06, 2013
i have the same answer but different reasoning XD for me it's Mark because he left a MARK on the window by accidentally breaking it.
hey, everybody .....
you're missing the "Van Gogh" party in yesterday's TOTD .....
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Be there or be ...
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The Bunny One (er ....uh ... TWO)
you're missing the "Van Gogh" party in yesterday's TOTD .....
Apr 04 #46315
Be there or be ...
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The Bunny One (er ....uh ... TWO)
Seems to me the answer could equally well be Paul (Poll) Crimson, with "poll" meaningm in this context, "question".
Nice one ! Super fun and easy, though I had to think about it a little.
Elementary, but fun thanks!
Unoriginal, but fun!!
My answer was to question any of them, since they probably all saw who threw the snowball.
Wonderful! The best Sherlock Holmes teaser!
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