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Solution:

At every floor, the detective had to open the window himself. If the man had committed suicide, then at least one of the windows must have been open. A person who is committing suicide won’t close the window behind him. Thus he knows that someone pushed him off the edge and closed the window afterwards.

Solution:

Mountain

Solution:

This is more of a philosophical question than being a riddle or a puzzle. The action of Brian directly led to the result which is the death of Chris. Thus he murdered Chris. In a sense, Chris died due to the lack of water. It is the circumstances that ultimately led to his death.

Solution:

No

Explanation:
7 is the only prime followed by a cube.
Assume that n3-1 is a prime for some n.
N3-1 will be equal to (n−1)(n2+n+1)
Now, n-1 divides n3-1.
If n-1>1, then we will have a contradiction to n3-1 being a prime.

Solution:

See the colored sticks in the picture. We have moved those sticks in the position given in the second image corresponding with the color.

Solution:

The wise man told them to switch the horses and then race. In this manner, both of them will be willing to race as fast as they can to prove that the other horse (his own horse) is slow.

Solution:

Yes We can do it.

9^(9-9)

Solution:

Fred Odea won.

Just look at the announcement lines. The first sentence in 'Ok now everybody!' If you take out just the first letter of every word, it will form 'ONE'. In the same manner the second sentence 'The winner of…..' will give form 'TWO' and the third sentence 'The Hardest Riddle Ever Event.' Will form THREE.

Thus the final sentence must form FOUR. There is only one candidate who can suffice with the first two letter and he is Fred Odea. The final sentence of the mastermind must be, 'Fred Odea: Ultimate Riddler!'

Solution:

* First, the fireman and the athlete will go spending two minutes.
* The fireman will come back taking one minute.
* The drunk guy and the old lady will go spending five minutes.
* The athlete will come back taking two minutes.
* The athlete and fireman will go spending two minutes.

Two + One + Five + Two + Two = Twelve.

Thus all of them will be out of the house before it collapses.