Black stories and riddles

• A lonely woman jumps from the rooftop of a skyscraper. Just before crashing,
she completely regrets doing it.
O She was the only survivor (or that she thought) of a nuclear war. After
a year all by herself, she decides to commit suicide. In the moment when she
jumps from the building, she hears a phone ringing. Obviously, there is another
survivor out there.

• One priest is making a goodbye speech. Near the ending of the speech, the
mayor appears to say some greetings words, but he dies from a shooting before
finishing it.
O During the speech, the priest says that he remembers a murderer
committed his first day in the town. He says that the very first person to go and
confess his sins that day was the murderer. The mayor, who missed the
beginning of the priest’s speech, said that he was the first confess or of the
new priest in his first day. The mayor, having betrayed himself, is killed by
the victim’s brother.

• A woman dies because of a long telephone conversation.

O 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.

• A man is found in the middle of the countryside dead, with the only company
of a box closed next to him.
O The box is a parachute that didn’t open... It wasn’t the luckiest day in
the man’s life.

• A person committed suicide in an old barn. He is hanged from the middle point
of a beam that is 1.5 meters up. How could he do it if the barn is empty?
O He went up of an ice cube that melted after.

• A woman buys a new pair of red high heels. Hours later, she dies.
O Her husband was a magician that was doing a gun trick with an apple
on her head and his eyes closed. He didn’t realize she was wearing high heels
so he didn’t calculate the height accurately... so he killed her.

• A man goes into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The waitress takes a gun
from the bar and points at him. He says “thank you” and leaves without drinking.
O He had hiccups. She pointed the gun at him to scare him and it
worked so he thanked her and didn’t need the water anymore.

• 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
over the road and the car stops to let it pass. How could he see it?
O Because it was daylight.
• Acting on an anonymous phone call, the police raid a house to arrest a
suspected murderer. They don't know what he looks like but they know his
name is John and that he is inside the house. The police bust in on a carpenter,
a lorry driver, a mechanic and a fireman all playing poker. Without hesitation or
communication of any kind, they immediately arrest the fireman. How do they
know they've got their man?
O Because the other three are women.
•
A man is found dead in the mountain, completely naked and with a match in his
hand.
o
He was in a balloon with other people. The balloon is losing h
eight, so they throw everything, including their clothes. It is not enough and one
of them has to jump. The man took the smaller match.
•
A man is dead in the floor of a sauna. Next to him, there’s a thermos flask.
o
His killer murdered him with an ice screwdriver. It melted after.
•
A woman opens her suitcase. When she finds inside a man’s corpse, she
commits suicide.
o
The man was his friends, who couldn’t travel abroad. She hid him in the
suitcase
. Unfortunately, the heating system in the cargo hold didn’t worked,
and he died because of the cold.
•
A man takes a step back and dies.o
He was a glass cleaner and when he finished cleaning one window
, he tried to see if it was completely clean. Unfortunately, it killed him.
•
A man jumps and hours later, he dies.
o
He jumped from his yacht, but forgot to put the stairs. He went for a swim but
couldn’t go up again.
•
A woman goes into her building and tries to use the elevator for going up to her
apartment. The elevator is not working, and she knows that her husband is
dead
.
o
He needed a machine to breath, and if the elevator doesn’t work is because
the light went off. The machine, then, stopped too.
•
A man has a wound in his finger. He puts his finger into the water and when he
takes it back, the wound has disappeared.
o
It was a river full of piranhas. They ate his finger.
•
A woman stands in front of a hotel. Only two more steps and all will be lost.
o
She was playing monopoly and her piece was on park place. If she rolled two,
she would move to Boardwalk, causing her to go to bankrupt.
•
A man packed a severed arm and put it in the mail. The package was opened
by three one-armed men; satisfied, they threw the arm into the sea.
o
They all were once in a plane crash. They were for a long time alone in an
island with nothing to eat, so they decided to cut one arm
each for eating and surviving. The one that was cutting the arms was a
surgeon, who didn
’t cut his
arms because they were rescued. When they were home, as it was a promise,
he cut his arms and send to the others.
•
A woman se
lls his husband
’s Porsche
for only 500 euros.
o
Her husband
committed suicide in
side the car. The body was found days later,
and the smell could
n’t go away. Finally, she had to get rid of the car.
•
A man lives in the t
enth floor of a bui
lding. Everyday, he takes the elevator
to go to
work or go shopping. When he comes back, he always goes to the seventh floor
and
goes up the other three floors walking
, but when it rains
. Why?
o
He s
uffers from dwarfis
m,
so he can
’t reach the numbers. When it rains, he
has his umbrella and presses
the buttons wit
h it.

Five men were

together
in a country road. It starts rain
ing and four of them st
art
walking faster. The last one doesn
’t make any effort for speeding u
p and he stays dry
all the same. The five reach the destiny at the same time. How can it be? Note:
they
could only travel with their feet.
o
The four men were taking the last one, that was dead in his coffin.
•
On
e man lives alone
in his house d
uring two months. He didn
’t received
any visits and
never
left
the house.
At the end o
f the two months he went crazy, so he turned the
lights off,
extinguish
the fire and left the house. As a consequence, 90 people died.
Why?
o
He was living in the light house, so wh
en he t
urned off the lights,
the ships
couldn
’t see the rocks and
sank
.
•
Two men, in 1930, were driving a Ford from New York to Los Angeles. The trip,
of
5.375
km
lasted for 18 days. Th
is wasn
’t the first, the
fastest,
or the slowest of its kind.
They
travelled the nor
mal roads, the car was normal and also the drivers were normal.
But, as a consequence
of the trip, this two men have a worldwide
record
 that hasn
’t
been beaten yet. What is it?
o
They were driving
in reverse.
•
You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you
pass by a
bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus:
1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Knowing that there can only be one passenger in your car, whom would you
choose?
o
The old lady of course! After helping the old lady into the car, you can give
your keys to your friend, and wait with your perfect partner for the bus.
•
A woman has incontrovertible proof in court that her husband was murdered by
her
sister. Both the woman and her sister are before
the Judge. The judge declares, "This is
the strangest case I've ever seen. Though it's a cut-
and
-dried case, this woman before
me cannot be punished." How can this possibly be?
o
They are conjoined twins.
•
Five pieces of coal, a carrot and a scarf are lying on a hill near a remote h
ouse. Nobody
put them on the lawn but there is a perfectly logical reason why they should be
there.
What is it?
o
A snowman.
•
A woman gave natural birth to two sons who were born on the same hour of the
same
day of the same month of the same year. But they were not twi
ns and she had no
access to a time machine. How could this be?
o
They were triplets.
•
A man was driving alone in his car when he spun off the road at high speed. He
crashed through a fence and bounced down a steep ravine before the car
plunged into
a fast flowing river. As the
car slowly settled in the river, the man realized that his arm
was broken and that he could not release his seat belt and get out of the car.
The car
sank to the bottom of the river. He was trapped in the car. Rescuers arrived two
hours
later, yet they fou
nd him still in the river, but alive. How come?
o
The
water in the river only came up to the man
’s chest.
•
A police officer saw a truck driver clearly going the wrong way down a one
-way street,
but did not try to stop him. Why not?
o
Because he was walking.
•
A New York city hairdresser recently said that he would rather cut the hair of th
ree
Canadians than that of one New Yorker. Why?
o
Because he would earn three times as much
money
!