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Someone under house arrest?

yes, very serious

Smoke doesn't go up a chimney down.

Sounds like pre-digital photography to me.

You can't see a stool in an attic from street level. The whole story could be made up if the grocery store was on the same block and he walks to it, not drives. But yeah, its the stool deal.

The sun melted Frosty

Can we only place mathematical symbols between the numbers or can we really mess with them?

Half made of the shade that is almost white and half made of the shade that is almost black. This sounds too easy a solution though... hmm

They both did it, but James was so shocked from killing his girlfriend that he got amnesia and forgot the whole thing. He even forgot he had a girlfriend, which is why it took him so long to figure out that he one and that she was missing. The friend was happy when James got amnesia (now no one could rat him out), but when James partially recovered and called his friend, the friend began to panic. So when they got to the house James went in first and the friend suspiciously 'just waited' by the door. He was really moving the body to a safer location, when he got uninterrupted by James returning. He promptly dropped the body and returned to his waiting spot to not arouse suspicion, and James tripped over the moved body still not having remembered the killing. Also, James had a cold and couldn't smell the decayed body, but his friend knew what to expect so he wasn't surprised by the smell. Case solved

Noct's answer is awesome

one word! minus the exclamation point of course

As I'm writing this I realize it's the cleaners because they said a corner and they're in a round castle, but my original thought was that it was the cleaners because they said they were cleaning the 'kingdom'. That's a lot to clean! And it also sounds like a quickly thought up lie.

Noct stop solving my puzzles! j/k You're right except for the reason. There is more to a siphon than gravity. It also accounts for total distance in height and (most importantly) air pressure into account. Gravity alone would not do the trick. Good one though

An underground pool is located on a hill that's 20 ft. above sea-level. The pool is surrounded by a 5 ft. fence. The bottom of the pool goes no lower than 10 ft. above sea level. The pool's owner notices that the pool could use about 10 more gallons of water. So he stands at the base of the hill holding a hose that goes up the hill, over the fence and into the pool and pours the water into the hose and begins to fill up the pool. After he pours all the water into the hose he drops his end onto the ground and walks away. What happens and why?

Congrats again Noct, you really got my number on these And yes, Lausus, it's just meant that he put all the pieces together. Nice one as well. Just to throw the reasoning out there: his footsteps wouldn't be able to be heard above the running saw.

I posted this same riddle 2 days ago and it got locked immediately Oh never mind, I didn't realize someone dug it up, my bad

Good call. You're very close. This is my bad for not clarifying the power to the saw. Please let me add that the saw is plugged into a floor outlet that is functional. Sorry.

For this riddle, a jigsaw is an electrical saw that is quite large (can cut large pieces of wood) and is a self-supporting, standing device.

Detective Somerset was called to the scene of the apparent suicide of Mr. Smith, the high school shop teacher (please know that I have nothing against shop teachers) The room was left for Somerset exactly as it had been found. When Somerset arrived he was amazed at how large the shop lab was. The walls were extremely high and the vaulted ceiling caused his footsteps to echo in sharp taps as he entered empowering him with a sense of authority. The beams and rafters were visible above him as if a normal ceiling had never been made. The massive windows near the top of the walls let in so much of the early- afternoon sun that almost the entire room was illuminated. The sunlight was so intense that Somerset had to look away from the window area after a time and blink his eyes for several seconds to get a clear picture of the dead man on the jigsaw. The jigsaw was positioned almost exactly in the center of the room and fully lit up by the sun almost as if it were a spotlight. The jigsaw was so massive and powerful that it surely would have killed Smith the moment his neck made contact with it. Aside from the grizzly gash on Smith's neck, there were no signs of struggle or other wounds. Somerset prodded a note left behind by Smith that lay slightly crumpled on his desk. The note made perfect sense out of why Smith would want to kill himself and do it this gruesomely and in this setting. The writing looked to be a perfect match as well, and would at least take days to be proven a forgery by an analyst. Somerset took one more quick glance around the room and proclaimed that Smith was murdered. How did he know?

Haha. Yes, 'not weeping alone' definitely doesn't mean the companion is weeping also.

But who turned it on?