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Explorers:
A famous chemist was found dead in his laboratory.

There was nothing around him except a paper with the names of chemical substances:

Carbon
Oxygen
Nickel
Lanthanum
Sulfur


On the day he was murdered, the chemist only had 3 visitors: his wife Mary, his nephew Nicolas, and his friend Jonathan.

The police arrested the murderer right away.



How did they know who killed him?

the chemist wrote down the name of his killer which is his cousin nicholas. The short form of the chemicals spelt his name

Mud? How? Was the cell built with mud? How will you make a mud from normal sand without water?

ikbnice:
Jack had a shovel, he could use that to dig around for sand and mould it high enough to reach the window. That's his only chance and two days will even be more than enough.

Plausible and likely the answer!

NeuroBoss:
You mentioned that he is in a 2x2 compartment. This means that his outstretched hands and legs would touch the parallel walls either way. Jack would simply use the shovel to make holes on the sides of the walls to support his hands and legs and he will do that upwardly till he reaches the top and escapes.

somehow:
Mud? How? Was the cell built with mud? How will you make a mud from normal sand without water?

the floor of the cell specifically, if he digs the floor of the cell, it would produce enough heap to reach the window

Explorers:
A dead body is found at the bottom of a multistory building.

It looks quite clear that the person has committed suicide by jumping off from one of the floors.

A detective comes, goes to the first floor and walks in the room facing the direction in which the body was found.

He opens the closed window of that room and flips a coin towards the floor.

He goes to the second floor and does the exact same thing till the last floor.

Then, when he climbs down, he tells the team that it is a murder, not suicide.



How did he know?

if it was suicide the window should still be opened.

Explorers:
A lonely old man lived in a lonely old house in the suburbs of a city.

He never left his house for long.

It was a midsummer, a Friday when the mailman walked by the house and called the lonely old man.

There was no answer.

When he looked into the window, he saw that old man lying in a pool of blood.

When the policemen arrived, they found a newspaper from Tuesday, 2 bottles of warm milk and one cold bottle.

The next day, the killer was arrested.

Who was the killer, and how did the police figure this one out?

He had a visitor, hence the two kinds of milk(cold and warm).
I suspect the visitor as the killer.

Explorers:
A lonely old man lived in a lonely old house in the suburbs of a city.

He never left his house for long.

It was a midsummer, a Friday when the mailman walked by the house and called the lonely old man.

There was no answer.

When he looked into the window, he saw that old man lying in a pool of blood.

When the policemen arrived, they found a newspaper from Tuesday, 2 bottles of warm milk and one cold bottle.

The next day, the killer was arrested.

Who was the killer, and how did the police figure this one out?

The man had a visitor, hence the two kind of milk(warm and cold). I suspect the visitor.

Explorers:
A serial killer kidnapped his victims, held them hostage and offered them a possibility to stay alive.

They had to choose from two pills.

One was poison, other was harmless.

Whichever pill the victim took, the serial killer would take the other one.

The victim took their pill with water and died.

The killer obviously survived.



How did the killer always end up with the harmless pill?

The poison is in the water. The kidnapped victims took their medicines with water while the kidnaper took his without water.

Explorers:
Jack was placed in a cell 2×2 with one window at the top of the wall.

The window was big enough for him to go through it but too high for anyone to reach it.

The cell was empty.

It had nothing in it, except a shovel.

He had only two days to break out.

How will Jack escape?

He should dig as much as required, climb the sand and get out of the cell through the window

He can't get mud sand in such place. Remember it's even 2:2

ikbnice:
the floor of the cell specifically, if he digs the floor of the cell, it would produce enough heap to reach the window

Explorers:
A famous chemist was found dead in his laboratory.

There was nothing around him except a paper with the names of chemical substances:

Carbon
Oxygen
Nickel
Lanthanum
Sulfur


On the day he was murdered, the chemist only had 3 visitors: his wife Mary, his nephew Nicolas, and his friend Jonathan.

The police arrested the murderer right away.



How did they know who killed him?

NICOLAS
NIckel Carbon Oxygen LAnthanum Sulphur

Explorers:
A serial killer kidnapped his victims, held them hostage and offered them a possibility to stay alive.

They had to choose from two pills.

One was poison, other was harmless.

Whichever pill the victim took, the serial killer would take the other one.

The victim took their pill with water and died.

The killer obviously survived.



How did the killer always end up with the harmless pill?

The water was poisoned.

Someone got number 1

Explorers:
A dead body is found at the bottom of a multistory building.

It looks quite clear that the person has committed suicide by jumping off from one of the floors.

A detective comes, goes to the first floor and walks in the room facing the direction in which the body was found.

He opens the closed window of that room and flips a coin towards the floor.

He goes to the second floor and does the exact same thing till the last floor.

Then, when he climbs down, he tells the team that it is a murder, not suicide.

How did he know?

the windows are closed on all the floors.
if the man comitted suicide....at least one window should be open!

Explorers:
A famous chemist was found dead in his laboratory.

There was nothing around him except a paper with the names of chemical substances:

Carbon
Oxygen
Nickel
Lanthanum
Sulfur


On the day he was murdered, the chemist only had 3 visitors: his wife Mary, his nephew Nicolas, and his friend Jonathan.

The police arrested the murderer right away.



How did they know who killed him?

There's something about re-arranging those chemical substances to get the killer's name - Nicolas

Explorers:
A man was found dead with a cassette recorder in one hand and a gun in the other.

When the police came in, they immediately pressed the play button on the cassette.

He said “I have nothing else to live for.

I can’t go on,” then the sound of a gunshot.

After listening to the cassette tape, the police knew that it was not a suicide.

How did they know?

Probably the recording stopped after the gunshot... Which is not supposed to be if it was suicide.

Robbin7:
He stood on the shovel.

Explorers:
A serial killer kidnapped his victims, held them hostage and offered them a possibility to stay alive.

They had to choose from two pills.

One was poison, other was harmless.

Whichever pill the victim took, the serial killer would take the other one.

The victim took their pill with water and died.

The killer obviously survived.



How did the killer always end up with the harmless pill?

Since it wasn't specified whether the serial killer used the drug with water.
I think both drugs are harmless but taking any of it with water will make a poisonous.

Own opinion

Explorers:
Jack was placed in a cell 2×2 with one window at the top of the wall.

The window was big enough for him to go through it but too high for anyone to reach it.

The cell was empty.

It had nothing in it, except a shovel.

He had only two days to break out.

How will Jack escape?

Jack needn't break out...he's not in the cell afterall...the cell was empty .

The chemical symbols of the element he wrote can be arranged to form Nicholas

RobinHez:
There's something about re-arranging those chemical substances to get the killer's name - Nicolas

Explorers:
A man was found dead with a cassette recorder in one hand and a gun in the other.

When the police came in, they immediately pressed the play button on the cassette.

He said “I have nothing else to live for.

I can’t go on,” then the sound of a gunshot.

After listening to the cassette tape, the police knew that it was not a suicide.

How did they know?

The gun won't be in His hand
Shikenah
And also from visual inspection on the wound sustianed from the bullet you can determine a close range shot

Explorers:
A man was found dead with a cassette recorder in one hand and a gun in the other.

When the police came in, they immediately pressed the play button on the cassette.

He said “I have nothing else to live for.

I can’t go on,” then the sound of a gunshot.

After listening to the cassette tape, the police knew that it was not a suicide.

How did they know?

well...he could reverse the tape himself & then pull the trigger

but the the gun in his hand
shouldn't that have fallen down if he killed himself?

dfrost:
My exact thoughts. No need to reiterate. These are the type of guys I like to roll with on NL.

naptu2 is also one of them.

Me self dey roll with una...smarties Explorers baba, I'm gonna take permission to kiss you from madam

Ojugunrege:
well...he could reverse the tape himself & then pull the trigger

but the the gun in his hand
shouldn't that have fallen down if he killed himself?

Remember the sound of the gunshot was heard in the recording, if he stopped the recording himself the gunshot would not have been heard

Aniekpeno11:
Remember the sound of the gunshot was heard in the recording, if he stopped the recording himself the gunshot would not have been heard

OK then

Wow

sisisioge:
Me self dey roll with una...smarties Explorers baba, I'm gonna take permission to kiss you from madam

Sisioge I salute. I no follow for smarties abeg ooo. Na uncle naptu2 be alaga here.

Now the dudes on this thread are the real MVPs on NL. See smart guys hovering over this thread and tearing down puzzles like no man's business.

Explorers:
A man was found dead with a cassette recorder in one hand and a gun in the other.

When the police came in, they immediately pressed the play button on the cassette.

He said “I have nothing else to live for.

I can’t go on,” then the sound of a gunshot.

After listening to the cassette tape, the police knew that it was not a suicide.

How did they know?

he have never finished talking before the gunshot

Explorers:
A dead body is found at the bottom of a multistory building.

It looks quite clear that the person has committed suicide by jumping off from one of the floors.

A detective comes, goes to the first floor and walks in the room facing the direction in which the body was found.

He opens the closed window of that room and flips a coin towards the floor.

He goes to the second floor and does the exact same thing till the last floor.

Then, when he climbs down, he tells the team that it is a murder, not suicide.



How did he know?

all windows were closed I guess

Explorers:
Jack was placed in a cell 2×2 with one window at the top of the wall.

The window was big enough for him to go through it but too high for anyone to reach it.

The cell was empty.

It had nothing in it, except a shovel.

He had only two days to break out.

How will Jack escape?

digg the opposite side and heap the excavated sand below the window till he can climb through

Explorers:
A serial killer kidnapped his victims, held them hostage and offered them a possibility to stay alive.

They had to choose from two pills.

One was poison, other was harmless.

Whichever pill the victim took, the serial killer would take the other one.

The victim took their pill with water and died.

The killer obviously survived.



How did the killer always end up with the harmless pill?

water was poisoned

Explorers:
A dead body is found at the bottom of a multistory building.

It looks quite clear that the person has committed suicide by jumping off from one of the floors.

A detective comes, goes to the first floor and walks in the room facing the direction in which the body was found.

He opens the closed window of that room and flips a coin towards the floor.

He goes to the second floor and does the exact same thing till the last floor.

Then, when he climbs down, he tells the team that it is a murder, not suicide.



How did he know?

Possibly reasons:
1) closed windows
2) position of body not consistent with fall from such height