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The Murderer
Situation
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.Situation
A cop was outside a local bar talking to a friend. Just then the cop heard someone scream from inside the bar, "No, Jim, don't do it!" Then there was a gunshot. The cop ran inside the bar and saw a dead body and a gun on the floor, and a lawyer, doctor, and mailman standing around. The cop immediately arrested the mailman. How did he know who did it?
Hint
Think about what types of people they would be.Answer
The lawyer and the doctor were both female. So when the cop walked in, he remembered someone had screamed, "No, Jim, don't do it!" Jim is a guy's name, and the mailMAN was the only guy there.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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How are you suppose to know that the doctor and lawyer are both females?
Why did the cop assume that the suspect would have to be one of the 3 people standing around the body, even if there warent other customers at the bar, there would have to be a bartender anyways, so whos to know that the bartender wasnt the murderer?
It doesnt make sense, who is Jim? Maybe its the victim, who tried to ie. attack, or shield someone [body gueard].
I thought maybe the mailman was in his uniform and as a public servant he was wearing a name tag "Jim.."
ok that was nice
I feel my answer is better, get this the cop arrested the mailman because he knew the doctor would be trying to heal the victim and the lawyer would have been raiding the victim's wallet or something so she could call the family of the victim to like extend her client base and the mailman couldn't do anything except know a name like Jim. Yeeah. I know it's complicated and detailed but you know it's sweet!
if ur a woman mailman ur still called a mailman.
I thought that the mailman was wearing a nametag, and the other two were off duty or something, and they didn't have a nametag on, but then again, what type of mailman has a nametag?
o well... I enjoyed it...
o well... I enjoyed it...
Very cute. I should have gotten that.
I just assumed the lawyer. It better that way.
I thought it had something to do with going postal...
How on earth were we supposed to know that the doctor & lawyer were females?
How on earth were we supposed to know that the doctor & lawyer were females?
well, maybe the person on the floor is Jim, and he wanted to suicide.
I tried putting this joke on here before,I could never figure out who else had it i even searched for it, i love this teaser though
i thought it was cause he knew the people's names or they told them afterwards.
Much better answer: The policeman runs in says, "who did it, Jim?". Then the mailman said "It was the lawyer". Because of this the policeman knows that the mailman is Jim so he commited the crime.
Nice!
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