Brain Teaser Mysteries

One hot, dry day Nina saw Mr. Bentz shaking his head as he stood by his flowerbed.“Somebody ruined all my flowers,” he said, “I had the hose out watering them. When I went to put it away, somebody tromped through the rows and stomped on my flowers.”“Who’d do a mean thing like that?” Nina asked.Mr. […]

Detective John G. Abergail was on break from his life-saving career. He was just about to rest on his newly furnished hammock when he got a call from his cousin, Laura Plimott.“John, I know you are on break, and this may be silly, but no one else will listen.” Laura sped through her words. “Laura,

One day, while Levi was awaiting his new Take-A-Byte laptop, the doorbell rang. It was the NBDS delivery man. Excited as he was, he opened the package on the spot, and he noticed that the screen was scratched. The delivery man explained that the screen was scratched when it was dropped from the conveyor belt.

On 17 Greendale Street, Tony Owens owned a brass music store. Next to him, there was another music shop owned by Jeff Ringlington. One day, two kids named Jerry and Spencer went into one music shop and then the other looking for an instrument. A couple of days later, an instrument went missing. The police

One day, a farmer decides to put his five donkeys and five horses together in the same field to save space. He moves the animals into the empty field and leaves them with plenty of grass and hay to eat and water to drink.One year later, he decides to move the animals back into separate

One day, while mining in a cave some people came across a dirty note. Upon examination, they found it was a clue to where to find a treasure chest, full of rubber chickens. The clue said this:“A treasure of rubber chickensNot a single rubber henIn a secret spot near a lightGuides those in cloak of

A man was eating at a restaurant. When his food came, his waitress told him that they had run out of their usual fancy dinner plates and had to serve him their only plain dish. The man did not object, but there was a bug on his food. His waitress took it away and said

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

There is a monkey lover called Richard, and he collects stamps of monkeys in a binder. The last time when he checked, he had 8351 stamps of monkeys.One day, he found another 100 stamps. Going to his binder, he found that his stamps were all gone! He suspects these people:Jeff: The landlord. Loves collecting stamps.Jack:

Detective Smarttypaunts arrived at a suicide case. The man was the rich millionaire Dr. Snoot. Apparently, he hanged himself in his attic with a small stool and belt. The only witness was Dr. Snoot’s butler. The butler’s story was that he was outside bringing in groceries when he looked up and saw his master through

In summer, a man was walking lost in the desert. He had neither food nor water. When his body was found one day later by police, the ground was dry. They were baffled, because he had been drowned! How could this be? SolutionIn the desert, a flash flood can come at any time, and by

Colin Webster, the town of Loudan’s only 10- year-old genius and detective, was rushing to the lighthouse on the rocky shore along with every other kid in town. Zach Eddy had put signs up two weeks ago for a special gold-seeking diving rod. The reason Colin was so interested was that Zach was always trying

“I could have been killed, Inspector Wright!” cried Sam Dancer as the brilliant detective stepped in his disco.“Tell me what happened,” Inspector Wright asked.“I was closing my disco and then this guy came with a gun. He took all my money and took a shot at me. Luckily, it only scraped past my arm,” Sam

“Kaitlyn!” I shrieked when I saw my best friend run through the door, “You’re back!”Kaitlyn had been vacationing at Myrtle Beach for a week and we couldn’t wait to see each other. She glanced at my ears. “Where are your ear-rings?”She was referring to a pair of ear-rings she had bought me for my birthday

Elliot the detective heard the news of a double murder that occurred on a train.“The driver and the conductor were on the opposite ends of the train, but both were shot at the same time”, reported a policeman who was at the center of the train at the time. The policeman had heard both gunshots