#701 - Haunted House Riddle

To spice up your Halloween, you decide to enter a haunted house with your girlfriend. As you enter, an eerie silence embraces you and you can see nothing because its dark. You fumble your way and try your luck to find the switches, but it turns out to be a waste as there is no electricity connection to the house.

When you decide to turn back, the door closes on you and you are trapped in the house with your girlfriend who has now started panicking.

While you are trying to console her, an evil laughter takes you by surprise. Then, you see a faint figure who tells you that you have three doors in front of you and you must take one of them; it is the only way to free yourself. The figure describes that the first door opens up to a compact space filled with a swarm of deadly bees and you will be stung endlessly by them. The second door opens up to the electricity chairs. You both will be strapped to the chairs for five minutes and exposed to high voltage electricity. The third door opens up with a pit that has no bottom and you will keep falling endlessly into nothingness.

While this leaves you all panicked, which door will you choose if you have no other choice?

You must choose the door that opens with electric chairs. This is because there is no electricity in the house. Thus, you will just have to sit on the chairs for five minutes and then you will be free to go.

#702 - 99 More Than 100

When 99 is considered higher than 100?

The timer of a microwave.

The the timer of a microwave generally consists of 4 digits. First two digit for minutes and next two for seconds.
So,
99 indicates - 1 minute 39 seconds
100 indicates - 1 minutes (1:00)

#703 - Calendar Murder Mystery Riddle

A few friends meet at a guesthouse. In the wake of the night, Aleph is killed by someone among them. Before Aleph breathes for the last time, he cleverly writes and mark something on his pocket calendar, careful not to write the name of the killer because he knows the killer is smart enough to get rid of any evidence.The police arrive at the crime scene and searches for the evidence; not able to find any. Then they find a pocket calendar inside the inner pocket of the vic jacket.Attached is the image of the pocket calendar. Can you guess the name of the killer even though you dont know the name of the friends?

Calendar Murder Mystery Riddle

MITCH

A few friends meet at a guesthouse. In the wake of the night, Aleph is killed by someone among them. Before Aleph breathes for the last time, he cleverly writes and mark something on his pocket calendar, careful not to write the name of the killer because he knows the killer is smart enough to get rid of any evidence.

The police arrive at the crime scene and searches for the evidences; not able to find any. Then they find a pocket calendar inside the inner pocket of the vic jacket.

Attached is the image of the pocket calendar. Can you guess the name of the killer even though you dont know the name of the friends?

A.
The numbers 12, 4, 8 and 3 are written by Aleph. A few numbers are also circled.

Its fair to assume that the circled numbers refer to the letter present on that position of the month name and the written numbers define the sequence of the letters.

12 = December
5th letter of December = M

4 = April
4th letter of April = I

8 = August
6th letter of August = T

3 = March
4th and 5th letter of March = CH

Therefore, the name of the killer is MITCH.

#704 - English Vowel Trivia Puzzle

There are many words that contain all vowels. Do you know the shortest English word possible that contains all vowels?

The shortest, 6 letter word that contains all vowels is EUNOIA, meaning alertness of mind. However, many dictionaries rejected this word to be an English word.

If we ignore above word, next word that contains all vowels with length=7 are br>:SEQUOIA
:EULOGIA

:MIAOUED
:ADOULIE
:EUDOSIA
:EUNOMIA
:EUTOPIA
:MOINEAU
:DOULEIA.

#705 - The Stairs Riddle

You need to climb ten stairs. At every stair, you can either take one step up or you can jump two steps up.

In how many different ways you can climb 10 stairs?

89

#706 - Smart Algebra Equation Riddle

If
Aakriti = 742
Lavesh = 622
Shruti = 620
Anmol = 522
Then,
Sonal = ?

522

1st Number = Number of alphabets
2nd Number = Number of vowels
3rd Number = Number Of Circles

Example,
Lavesh = 6 alphabets + 2 vowels(a,e) + 2 circles(in "a" and in "e") = 622

#707 - Matchsticks Equation Puzzle

You need to move four matchsticks to make matchsticks equation true.

Matchsticks Equation Puzzle

It can be solved as below.

#708 - Who Is The Spy Puzzle

Jane Doe, a top MI6 Cop is found in Times Square with almost no memory and mysterious tattoos on her body. She just remembers that she had embraced this tattoo so that she can remember who is the spy that was responsible for the blast in London.
MI6 had shortlisted 6 suspects and ask jane if she can identify with them who is responsible for the blast. She doest not remember anything but when she look into her tattoo she was able to identify the spy.

Following are the suspects name
1. Kurt
2. Edgar
3. Tasha
4. Oscar
5. Bethany

Tattoo found on her body was "ymarspseneptunehtssaturniravenuscso"

Who is the spy ?

Tatoo:
ymarspseneptunehtssaturniravenuscso

She deciphers the tattoo in below steps
1. Separate planets name
y mars pse neptune hts saturn ira venus cso

2. Remove planets name and join remaining text
ypsehtsiracso

3. Reverse it
oscaristhespy

4. Add space to make sense
oscar is the spy

#709 - Relationship Numbers Riddle

Can you replace the question mark with the correct number, given the pair of numbers exhibits similar relationship?

? : 3839 :: 11 : 1209

16

Formular used :
pow(x,3) - pow(x,2) - 1
11*11*11 - 11*11 - 1
1331 - 121 - 1
1209

Similarly, we can solve
pow($x,3) - pow($x,2) - 1 = 3839
This condition holds true for number-16.

#710 - Fun Algebra Puzzle

The following alphametic has only one solution. Can you find it?
ENLIST + SILENT + LISTEN = ANAGRAM

PS: You may start the number from 0.

Since leading a number with 0 is allowed, it can be the only possible solution:
547809 + 087549 + 780954 = 1416312