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  • You must work together in order to try and solve the mystery. 
  • You can only ask yes or no questions in order to find out       more information about the circumstances surrounding the mystery. 
  • If the question cannot be answered with a yes or no you must   rephrase your question. 
  • If you ask a question using a false assumption, I will tell you so.
  • If you ask irrelevant questions or are going in the wrong direction,       I will help the you get back on the right track.

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Black Stories
A man was pushed out of an airplane, without the parachute. How was he able to survive?


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The plane was still on the runway...


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There’s a black car driving on a black road. Both the street lights and the car lights are turned off, and the buildings are also black. A black cat is crossing the road and the car stops to let it pass. How could he see it?

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It was daylight.

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Black Stories
There are a man and his son in a car. The car crashes and the father dies. When the ambulance takes the son to the hospital, the surgeon says: “I can’t do the surgery,because he is my son”. How can that be possible?

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The surgeon was a woman, she is his mother.

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A woman dies because of a long telephone conversation.


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She was just coming from the mechanic, where she had picked up her car. The mechanic forgot to put the brakes, and he was trying to reach her and tell her, but it was impossible because she was talking.

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A man is found in the middle of the countryside dead, with the only company of a box closed next to him.


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The box is a parachute that didn’t open … It wasn’t the luckiest day in the man’s life.

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Black Stories

A man is found dead in a field. He is clutching a broken match. 

What happened?

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Black Stories

He and a number of other passengers were making a balloon trip in a desperate attempt to flee a country. The balloon had to lose weight to stop it from crashing. He drew the short match and had to jump.

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Black Stories Mystery

Anthony and Cleopatra are lying dead on the floor of a villa in Egypt. Nearby is a broken bowl. There is no mark on either of their bodies and they were not poisoned. How did they die?

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Black Stories Solution
Anthony and Cleopatra were goldfish whose bowl was knocked over by a clumsy dog.

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