Riddles & Brain Teasers

[MrKaplansGlasses]

Does anyone know any good ones? DH and I live an exciting life and have been trying some brainteasers out on each other. I appear to have run out now but I want some really tricky ones to get him with tomorrow if anyone can help!

Sirifred. You're right. I'm a dope and wrote the riddle wrong.

The woman was stabbed with an icicle.

Queen - it seems to me that a perfectly sensible explanation is that the murder weapon was a knife that the murderer rinsed off in the glass of water then took away with them. But I suspect it's going to be that the murder weapon was a piece of ice which melted in the glass.

A man is found dead in a middle of a field. The only thing with him is an unopened parcel. How did he die?

Queen - 6 is correct.

DadDadDad yup.

Hmm, these brainteasers are more satisfying to me if the setup eliminates mundane possibilities to make it more mysterious, eg for the stabbing one, if the murderer was found still by the bed but police could not find the murder weapon anywhere.

agreed......

The unopened parcel was his parachute

Three marriage ones - can you explain them?

1. A man married his brother on 1 January but no law was broken.

1. A couple married in March but celebrate their wedding anniversary in September.

1. In February, I went to a wedding. It was a perfectly normal ceremony, but the couple will celebrate their wedding anniversary in January.

1: ????
2: Queen Elizabeth and Duke Edinburgh ? (guess)
3: wedding on 29th feb.

Marriage ones;

1. The man is a vicar

1. March / January is the name of a town?

Little - you've got 1 and 2. (March is in Cambridgeshire). I'm not aware of a town called January, and it's not the intended answer.

As a (kind of) hint to Q3, I should point out it was a summer wedding.

so wedding is in southern hemisphere on/near date line?

DadDadDad - you left the UK on the 1st Feb but arrived in South America on the 31st Jan, just in time for the wedding? (Not sure if the timing's work, but you get the general idea of what I'm saying.)

I know a couple who legally got married on Oct 31st but had their "Wedding" on Nov 1st so the guests would have gone to a wedding in November but the couple celebrate their anniversary in Oct.
True story
Is it something like that.

wedding on 29th feb.

Surely then the couple would celebrate their wedding anniversary on 28th February or 1st March, not in January?

My guess is that they married on a ship/plane as they crossed the International Date Line.

Which month has 28 days?
All of them

Monger has the solution I was looking for. I was trying to make the wording as precise as possible but might need more work: the ceremony began on 1 February on a cruise ship which sailed over the international dateline (going west) so that they officially got married on 31 January.

You can play around with twins being born either side of midnight on a cruise ship going east, so that their birthdays are (say) 1 January and 3 January.

A, who knows only French, publishes an article in an English magazine. At the end of the article are the following three footnotes:

1. I thank my friend B for translating the above article into English so that it could be published in this magazine.
2. I thank my friend B for translating the above footnote.
3. I thank my friend B for translating the above footnote.

Why are there only three footnotes when logically, A will have to go on forever to be able to thank B properly?

monger the wording for 2 and 3 is exactly the same so A now knows the wording required - B no longer needs to translate so the thanking stops.

Correct

Today is Kevin's birthday. A year ago on his birthday, he had five candles and lit all except the last one. Today he is going to light all of the candles. How old is Kevin today?

31

Kevin is 5??? maybe???