Brain Teasers.

Romeo and Juliet are found dead on the floor in a bedroom. When they were discovered, there were pieces of glass and some water on the floor. The only furniture in the room is a shelf and a bed. The house is in a remote location, away from everything except for the nearby railroad track. What caused the death of Romeo and Juliet?

clue: R& J are not the Shakespeare lovers.
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Kris148 said:
Romeo and Juliet are found dead on the floor in a bedroom. When they were discovered, there were pieces of glass and some water on the floor. The only furniture in the room is a shelf and a bed. The house is in a remote location, away from everything except for the nearby railroad track. What caused the death of Romeo and Juliet?

clue: R& J are not the Shakespeare lovers.
@Sunny
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If at first glance this or any other riddle looks too hard to solve.. simply ask me questions and I will clue you to the solution.
 
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Romeo and Juliet are a pair of goldfish who were on the shelf in a bowl, and a passing train rattled the bowl enough so it fell? But where does the bed come in? And what difference if it was a remote location? So that's probably wrong.
 
Sunny said:
Romeo and Juliet are a pair of goldfish who were on the shelf in a bowl, and a passing train rattled the bowl enough so it fell? But where does the bed come in? And what difference if it was a remote location? So that's probably wrong.
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You are 100% correct. Very good deduction. How did you know R & J were fish? I regard myself as having a reasonable intellect. I can tell you in all honesty it took me longer than you to get this one.

a bed. The house is in a remote location, superfluous information.
 
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Ok if that was easy this is a snack.
A bus driver was heading down a street in Colorado. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no left turn" sign, and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still - he didn't break any traffic laws. WHY?
 
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To answer your question about Romeo & Juliet, I arrived at it by a kind of backward reasoning. At first I thought maybe there was a glass of water on the shelf above two sleeping people, and the train made it fall on them and shatter, killing them.

But then, I thought, what glass would be heavy enough to do that much damage? Well, who says it has to be a glass? Maybe something large like a fishbowl? And then it popped into my head that maybe R&J were not people, but were the fish.

It all made sense except for the bed and the fact that it was in a remote location, which I guess were just thrown into the puzzle as "red herrings" to further confuse things. Cute puzzle!
 
Sunny said:
To answer your question about Romeo & Juliet, I arrived at it by a kind of backward reasoning. At first I thought maybe there was a glass of water on the shelf above two sleeping people, and the train made it fall on them and shatter, killing them.

But then, I thought, what glass would be heavy enough to do that much damage? Well, who says it has to be a glass? Maybe something large like a fishbowl? And then it popped into my head that maybe R&J were not people, but were the fish.

It all made sense except for the bed and the fact that it was in a remote location, which I guess were just thrown into the puzzle as "red herrings" to further confuse things. Cute puzzle!
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Like I said that was brilliant deduction. Do you want to post a riddle yourself and tease our brains?
 
Sunny said:
Don't know any good ones. They just don't stick in my head.
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You will find plenty online. Meanwhile an easier one.
A pet shop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears". Davey bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot.
How can this be?
 
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