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[itachi-san]

some of these are old but I didn't find them in the search

1) A man lies dead in a large room. There is a chandelier attached to the ceiling and fancy artwork, sculptures and jewels all around. Near him there is a large window letting rays in, yet he was clearly not a vampire. What happened?

2) A man is returning home by train. If he was sitting in the non-smoking car he would have died. why?

3) A woman bought a new pair of shoes, went to work and died. why?

4) Two men enter a bar and order identical drinks. one lives, the other dies. neither had allergies or choked. what happened?

5) A woman has incontrovertible proof in court that her husband was murdered by another woman. The judge sat in wonderment and said: "I agree with the evidence, but this woman can't be punished" why did he rule that way?

[Joey D]

Spoiler for #5

Perhaps she had already been tried for the murder, and acquitted. Now that the wife had new evidence, the judge's hands were tied.

[Joey D]

Spoiler for #3

Was she a tight-rope walker, or some other occupation where the new shoes caused her demise?

[TrollMan]

Spoiler for 5

her IQ`s too low to be convicted of murder

[j.green]

A lot of these are pretty open-ended.

Spoiler for some

1. Heart attack.
2. The non-smoking car exploded or derailed.
3. Heart attack.
4. Heart attack.
5. Could be anything, but I've heard this as the murderer is a conjoined twin.

Edit: 69th post lololol !!!!1111one111eleventyone

Edited by j.green, 21 January 2012 - 04:38 AM.

[WitchOfDoubt]

I think I've got the first, and I've heard the fifth before.

The first:

Spoiler for Rays, indeed

The rays were fish. The room was on the Titanic; I just wrote a Titanic riddle, so this came easy.

[dark_magician_92]

i did some reasearch on non smoking car in trains and found out that

Spoiler for answer

there is a disease called small pox and its cure is to be in a "tobacco in the air" sort of atmosphere, so he shud hv chosen smoking car.

[SMV]

Spoiler for Guess for 2

Does it have anything to do with the fact that non smoking compartments are mostly air conditioned?

[SeaCalMaster]

Spoiler for 2 and 4

#4 is the old classic one with the ice cubes.

As for #2, I'm guessing that an assassin was trying to kill him with a sniper rifle. The smoke in the train car allowed him to see the laser sight and successfully hide.

[TheChad]

Looking at an old New York Times article, I can say that the answer to number 2 is

Spoiler for

that the man was beginning to get smallpox and inhaling the smoke helps cure it before it has a chance to get more dangerous to him.
In a more logical term, I'd say that the smoking car is probably the last car on a train and therefore didn't suffer from the accident/fall off the cliff/etc. as bad as the other cars.