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Re: Minute Mysteries Game!
« Reply #240 on: August 05, 2009, 05:23:48 AM »
The river was obviously in a rather populated city, otherwise there wouldn't be a walkway underneath a bridge. xD So, the city could be on the coast and hence the tsunami would make sense. Plus, many tsunamis are caused by underwater earthquakes. = )
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Re: Minute Mysteries Game!
« Reply #241 on: August 05, 2009, 06:20:50 AM »
Well, the tsunami didn't come from the river it just took out the whole area is what I was implying.


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Re: Minute Mysteries Game!
« Reply #242 on: August 05, 2009, 08:06:16 AM »
-nods- That's generally what tsunamis do. That's their "thing".
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Re: Minute Mysteries Game!
« Reply #243 on: August 05, 2009, 03:32:10 PM »
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When Superman arrived at his friend's office, he saw that he was in the middle of looking over some résumés.

"I'm looking to hire a new tour guide to help with a new ancient Chinese exhibit that's due to arrive next week" said Dr. Hydra. "I expect that this exhibit will attract hundreds of visitors and to tell you the truth, I'm a little worried that I may not be able to find a suitable guide to help with the attraction."

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Typed on a plain sheet of white paper was the resume of a man whose name was Leo The Lion . Under his qualifications he had a few relevant jobs listed with all the required references but it wasn't the job history that caught Dr. Hydra's attention. Rather, under the heading of hobbies and interests, leo had listed that he was very much interested in the Chinese culture and had been studying their language, alphabet, geography, religions, history, and customs for close to ten years. The resume then went on to list other desirable traits and details that would be of some benefit to the position.

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"I'd hold off on phoning him just yet if I were you. There's something off about his resume that leads me to believe that he is not being totally honest about his qualifications."

What mistake did Leo make in his resume?
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Re: Minute Mysteries Game!
« Reply #244 on: August 06, 2009, 06:20:00 PM »
He wrote that he had studied their alphabet which the Chinese do not technically have one? (not really sure)

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Re: Minute Mysteries Game!
« Reply #245 on: August 06, 2009, 06:21:19 PM »
What happened to all the other posts? This had already been answered and a new one already posted.


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Re: Minute Mysteries Game!
« Reply #246 on: August 06, 2009, 06:21:37 PM »
Never mind, I knew what happened.


MXY can you please post your riddle again?


Btw, Nateo, you are correct.


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Re: Minute Mysteries Game!
« Reply #247 on: August 06, 2009, 07:17:25 PM »
Never mind, I knew what happened.


MXY can you please post your riddle again?


Btw, Nateo, you are correct.


LOL


Okay, here it is AGAIN!  (GL, Kiwi!  :winkgrin: )

Sergeant Douglas Morson and Officer Angella Stout of the Hillshire Police were seated Wednesday morning at the Dobson kitchen table. David Herbert Dobson, professor emeritus of history at Dartmouth, finished pouring coffee and sat down.

"Perhaps, professor, you could describe the letter again," said the burly Morson.

"As I have told you, sergeant," Dobson replied, frowning, "the letter was written and signed by President Lincoln in 1863. Its recipient was John Hacker, a Shakespearean authority of the day with whom Lincoln conducted a brief correspondence. You will find the text in Basler's Collected Works of Lincoln. A writer from Americana magazine visited my home last year and profiled the letter, including its location.

"As you know, my basement is nicely fixed up," he continued. "Until last week, the framed letter hung on my basement wall, just outside the door to the small bathroom. When I went down last Friday morning, I discovered that someone had removed the back of the frame, taken the letter, and inserted as a laughable substitute a wrinkled copy of the handwritten Gettysburg Address."

"And you owned the letter for how long?" asked Morson.

"Nine years. I finally decided to donate it to Baker Library at Dartmouth, and was going to hand it over in three weeks. I never got around to having it insured."

Morson glanced at Stout, who nodded almost imperceptibly.

"Your basement had three visitors last week, professor," said Stout. "John Healy of Carney Furnaces came on Tuesday afternoon to clean your furnace. He has been with the company about five months. Ken Cantwell, who has been with the town water department for many years, stopped by on Wednesday afternoon to read your meter, as he does every four months. On Thursday morning, the tank of the toilet down there overflowed, and your wife called in Russell McNutt, a local plumber."

"That's right. I was away at a conference all day Thursday."

"McNutt was tried for petty theft six years ago, but acquitted," noted Morson. "Were any prints were found on the frame, Angella?"

"No, sarge. And no one has tried to sell the letter."

"It couldn't be sold!" exclaimed Dobson. "It was too well known. The theft must have been arranged by a private collector. My pending donation to the library was common knowledge in Dartmouth and Lincoln circles."

"I see." Morson frowned in thought. "Well, there were no signs of forced entry. You always keep your house locked, professor? And you and Mrs. Dobson had no other visitors last week?"

"Correct on both points," Dobson replied sadly.

"Does anyone else have a key to your house?"

"No."

"Any particular reason why you had your furnace cleaned now?"

"Well, I've had it done every two to three years, whenever it occurs to me. There are eight or nine companies around here that clean furnaces. I can never remember which one I last used, so I just picked one at random. We made the appointment about two weeks ago."

"Professor," said Stout, "I understand that these men did their work downstairs without supervision. Is that right?"

"Yes. Doris or I just showed them the stairs and let them do their jobs. I didn't have occasion to go down there from Tuesday morning until Friday."

Morson smiled.

"Angella, have any of the three shown a previous interest in historical documents or artifacts?" he asked.

Stout smiled too. "Not a trace, sarge."

"Very well." Morson pushed back his chair and stood up. "Thank you, professor. I think I know whom we need to question further to get this resolved."

Whom did Sgt. Morson suspect of involvement in the theft?

Why did he suspect them?




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Re: Minute Mysteries Game!
« Reply #248 on: August 06, 2009, 10:03:26 PM »
It has to be the meter reader.

He's the only one that can be predicted to visit the house!

ie. Any person who hired someone to steal the document couldn't have predicted the need for a plumber of furnace cleaner, but the meter reader comes periodically.
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Re: Minute Mysteries Game!
« Reply #249 on: August 06, 2009, 10:57:38 PM »
o.o my post has disappeared... = /

Not cool.

Anyway, my hypothesis was that the wife received a call from someone who wanted to buy it, decided that she could benefit from it and then messed up the toilet so that she could hire the plumber to steal it for her while she was "busy" doing other stuff.

My supporting evidence:

The fact that Herbert (Formerly Hubert Herbert Hudson xD) was donating it to the library was "common knowledge in Dartmouth and Lincoln circles."

"The framed letter hung on my basement wall, just outside the door to the small bathroom."

The fact that the wife called in the plumber.

The assumption that the plumber would be wearing gloves to fix the toilet, I know I would... Hence the lack of prints.

Also, the fact the plumber was called in on a Thursday morning when the Professor hadn't been down there since Tuesday to use it. = )

And.... the fact that the letter was replaced by a wrinkled up Gettysburg Address replica/copy... the wife, who saw the letter, took enough notice to wrinkle up the substitute (which I imagine the letter was wrinkled as well) and then replaced it with a very handy Gettysburg Address which was probably just lying around the house.

Edit: My other evidence that would make it less likely that the others would have stolen it would be that the meter reader would've had plenty of opportunities to steal it before. The guys cleaning the furnace were picked at random.
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Re: Minute Mysteries Game!
« Reply #250 on: August 06, 2009, 11:04:43 PM »
It has to be the meter reader.

He's the only one that can be predicted to visit the house!

ie. Any person who hired someone to steal the document couldn't have predicted the need for a plumber of furnace cleaner.

Well, Kiwi was REAL close on his (now long-gone!) previous post, but the nod goes to Hydra for getting the answer spot-on!


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Re: Minute Mysteries Game!
« Reply #251 on: August 06, 2009, 11:09:24 PM »
v.v -needs to think less?-

xD Nice job Hydra. = )
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Re: Minute Mysteries Game!
« Reply #252 on: August 06, 2009, 11:25:52 PM »
Alright, here goes another one of my made up fantasy deaths!



Sergeant Paul Kouriopolous sat on the chair in front of the owner of the house, nodding thoughtfully with a pen in lodged above his ear. The owner was still pretty shaken up after what he had discovered - a dead body in his bathroom. This just didn't happen in Albertown! No one ever even ran a red light, let alone committed a horrendous murder.

"Okay," Paul said breaking the deathly silence. "Run me through it again."

"Well," said Nathan and shifted uncomfortably in his chair. "I got home from work at around eight, as usual for a Thursday night. I walked in and turned the light on in the lounge before heading over to the bench where I had left a box of tissues earlier. I had a bit of a chill and reached for a tissue to blow my nose, and I noticed that the box and tissues were stained blood-red. I immediately ran out to go and throw up in the bathroom, which is where I saw the dead body." He said all this very quickly, as though he wanted to remove it from his memory forever.

"Can anybody verify your wherabouts for the entire day?" Paul asked. "Just a mandatory routine check" he assured Nathan, when he saw the shock on his face.

"My boss was at work all day with me, and also dropped me home in his ute." He pointed to the cast on his arm. "I can't drive you see, so he offered to give me lifts until it heals."

Paul nodded. "One more question. Do you know the deceased?"

Nathan answered quickly. "No, I've never seen him before."

"Thank you," Paul said calmly. "You are free to go. We will contact you if we have any further questions."

Nathan got up and left the room silently, still with an anxious look on his face. Paul knew that something didn't quite add up. There were no signs of forced entry, and the deceased had died due to an enormous amount of head trauma. There was blood all over the bathroom.

Paul got up and drove to the house to check out the crime scene. Nathan wasn't allowed back until tomorrow. He went back into the bathroom where she fell and died, and he noticed that some of her shirt had ripped off on a loose screw on the cupboard. He studied it closely, and realised it was the pocket of some sort of uniform of a cleaning company.

He rang the cleaning company and had a long conversation with the manager. Satisfied, he put the receiver down and ordered the arrest of Nathan and eventually he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.


How had this happened?


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Re: Minute Mysteries Game!
« Reply #253 on: August 07, 2009, 10:32:27 AM »
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Paul nodded. "One more question. Do you know the deceased?"

Nathan answered quickly. "No, I've never seen him before."

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Paul got up and drove to the house to check out the crime scene. Nathan wasn't allowed back until tomorrow. He went back into the bathroom where she fell and died, and he noticed that some of her shirt had ripped off on a loose screw on the cupboard.[...]

Dunno the answer yet, but the fact that Nathan thought the deceased was a MAN instead of a woman is pretty-good proof that - if he killed her - he didn't know who she was....

(Unless upon arriving home he found this unknown (hired, not-the-usual cleaning) person in his bathroom, grabbed the (pretty-darned heavy?!?) tissue box and beaned her with it thinking it to be a robber or some such....)
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Re: Minute Mysteries Game!
« Reply #254 on: August 07, 2009, 02:41:40 PM »
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(Unless upon arriving home he found this unknown (hired, not-the-usual cleaning) person in his bathroom

Yes

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grabbed the (pretty-darned heavy?!?) tissue box and beaned her with it

Noo

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thinking it to be a robber or some such....)

Yes!



Now just figure out how he killed her! :XD:



(The him/her thing was a great pickup, but actually a typo LOL)


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