Riddle: A man is found murdered in his office. The suspects are Peter, Julie, Jason, Molly and Brian.
In the office is a calendar with the numbers 6,4,9,10,11 written in blood.
Who is the killer?
Answers
Answer:
Jason
Explanation:
The police, after reading the wrong answer (JASON : by converting the numbers into months, then into letters, 6=June=J, 4=April=A, 9=September=S, 10=October=O, 11=November=N refers to JASON) arrested an innocent man Jason.
Answer:
Jason
Explanation:
The code is easy to decipher.
Consider that these are numbers that range between 1 - 12 and not between 1 - 31. So it indicates an order of the lunar months as it is written on a modern calendar.
If we take all the initials;
6 - June
4 - April
9 - September
10 - October
11 - November
We’ll get the name that “the code is trying to point out” is JASON.
But just to consider, for a dying man, why didn’t he write 1 for (J)anuary instead of 6 which takes more seconds to be written? And needs to encrypt it instead of revealing the actual name? And it didn’t show how the strokes of the numbers were being written.
So I think of these cases:
If Jason was the suspect, he maybe still at the scene when the man is dying and trying to encrypt the culprit’s name in a way Jason wouldn’t figure out.
It may be other criminal who wrote the code, afraid of getting caught and tried to frame up Jason by putting his name on a puzzle.
If it was Jason who wrote the code, he might be trying to become a notorious criminal who wants to play with the police, or being ready to submit himself and giving the police some time to find out the culprit.