Answers to '7 challenging crime-solving puzzles'

Question 1:

Use a shovel to dig a pile of dirt high, then climb onto the pile of dirt and crawl out the window.

Question 2:

The police knew Mrs. Smith was lying because the window was broken from the inside. If it had broken from the outside, the small pieces of glass would have been on the floor.

Question 3:

The killer was a math teacher. It was the first class of the new year, but he told the police he was giving his students a mid-year test.

Question 4:

The killer was the mailman. He was the only one who knew that nobody in this house read the Wednesday or Thursday newspaper.

Question 5:

Neither pill was poisonous. The poison was in the victims' drinking water.

Question 6:

John couldn't breathe into the windowpane and melt the ice because the windows usually froze on the inside.

Question 7:

If you combine the chemical symbols of the elements written on paper, you will get the words Ni-CO-La-S.

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