Murder Riddles

#2121 - Pattern Puzzle

What do the following words have in common?

Assess
Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Voodoo

#2122 - Nonsense Riddle

Four men were in a boat on the lake. The boat turns over, and all four men sink to the bottom of the lake, yet not a single man got wet! Why?

#2123 - One Correct Answer

Here are three answers:
1. Answer A
2. Answer A or B
3. Answer B or C

There is only one correct statement.Identify It ?

#2124 - December Riddle

What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days?

#2125 - December Maths Puzzle

I am thinking of a 6-digit number. The sum of the digits is 43.

And only two of the following three statements about the number are true:

(1) it's a square number,
(2) it's a cube number, and
(3) the number is under 500000.

#2126 - What Word Riddle

Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three,
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
I am double, I am single,
I am black blue and gray,
I am read from both ends,
And the same either way.

#2127 - Simple Maths Puzzle

In a certain country ½ of 5 = 3. If the same proportion holds, what is the value of 1/3 of 10 ?

#2128 - Science Series Puzzle

H, Be, F, S, Mn, Kr, In, Gd, Tl, ?

What's the next in the series?

#2129 - Hard Probability puzzle

Three people enter a room and have a green or blue hat placed on their head. They cannot see their own hat, but can see the other hats.
The color of each hat is purely random. They could all be green, or blue, or any combination of green and blue.
They need to guess their own hat color by writing it on a piece of paper, or they can write 'pass'.
They cannot communicate with each other in any way once the game starts. But they can have a strategy meeting before the game.
If at least one of them guesses correctly they win $50,000 each, but if anyone guess incorrectly they all get nothing.
What is the best strategy?

#2130 - Poem Puzzle

I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I?