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K Sengupta
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A Theater Crime Puzzle
« on: Jun 7th, 2006, 9:13am » |
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Sid Shady slipped into the back row of the theater and strained his eyes to locate Sam Sham. Slowly, the image of Sam sitting 20 rows ahead came into focus. As soon as his eyes had adjusted, Sid pulled out his gun and methodically loaded three chambers. Sid didn't have anything against Sam personally, but everyone had to earn a living and Sid just happened to be a hit man. Besides, the pay was good and the hours were few. During a particular quiet scene when the loudest sound was crunching popcorns, Sid fired three shots into the back of Sam's head. Sid put his gun under his coat and calmly left the theater. It wasn't until the movie had ended that Sam's dead body was discovered. An autopsy confirmed that Sam had been shot 3 times and had died almost instantly.
Since Sid didn't use a silencer, how could he have left the theater unnoticed?
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #1 on: Jun 7th, 2006, 10:24am » |
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I'm guessing he was the only other person in the theater? Or the other people were deaf?
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #2 on: Jun 8th, 2006, 4:45am » |
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on Jun 7th, 2006, 10:24am, Weazel wrote:| I'm guessing he was the only other person in the theater? Or the other people were deaf? |
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I don't think that would work, as the shot noise would acho through the theatre, as wekk as the neighborhood.
However, it was stated that Sam was shot with bullets. So, maybe it was not a "regular" gun, but an injection gun, and Sam was shot with poison?
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #3 on: Jun 9th, 2006, 12:45am » |
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on Jun 8th, 2006, 4:45am, BNC wrote:
I don't think that would work, as the shot noise would acho through the theatre, as wekk as the neighborhood.
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But there might be plenty of shooting in the movie itself, so that a few more shots won't be noticed.
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #4 on: Jun 9th, 2006, 3:07am » |
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So how about a combination, there was no-one else in the theatre and he shot the guy with a poison-dart gun.
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #5 on: Jun 22nd, 2006, 3:30am » |
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Maybe there was noone else in the cinema and he left through the fire exit? Or maybe everyone else in the cinema thaught sam deserved it and had he been left alive they'd have done it themselves.
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #6 on: Jun 22nd, 2006, 3:53am » |
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on Jun 22nd, 2006, 3:30am, Lozboz wrote:| Or maybe everyone else in the cinema thaught sam deserved it. |
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Maybe the crunching popcorn was Sam's. Serves him right getting shot, people should be quiet in the theater.
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #7 on: Jun 27th, 2006, 5:13pm » |
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It was dark.
Or a reporter turned on her microphone by mistake while she was eating the crunchiest popcorn.
Or Sid is a Romulan so he has a cloaking device attached to his belt.
Quote:| Since Sid didn't use a silencer, how could he have left the theater unnoticed? |
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No way he could, so he didn't. Not sure about the wording of the question though.
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #8 on: Jun 27th, 2006, 6:02pm » |
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I got it! To get more people to vote for him, the presidential candidate gave free tickets to the deaf. He also gave free tickets to the blind, so they thought that shooting was a scene from the movie. 
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #9 on: Jul 8th, 2006, 5:00am » |
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[quote author=BNC link=board=riddles_whathappened;num=1149696823;start=0#2 date=06/08/06 at 04:45:38]
I don't think that would work, as the shot noise would acho through the theatre, as wekk as the neighborhood.
Most theatres have special material installed on the walls to absorb the sound so that it doesn't echoe. Maybe it was such a top of the art hall that it absorbed 100% of the noise making it sound-proof.
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #10 on: Jul 11th, 2006, 7:46pm » |
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| hidden: | | the hit man had seen the movie before, so he knew when the loud part came, and he prepared to shoot him just before the loudest part came, so maybe he was perfectly in sinc with the movie and no one noticed because all they were focused on was the movie |
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #11 on: Jul 12th, 2006, 12:48am » |
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on Jun 7th, 2006, 9:13am, K Sengupta wrote:| ... During a particular quiet scene when the loudest sound was crunching popcorns, Sid fired three shots into the back of Sam's head. |
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Sorry to spoil everyone's fun, but it does say it was a quiet part in the movie so the noise of the shot couldn't have been masked be the sound of the movie.
I came up with another idea: Maybe Sid was a cop and wasn't suspected or if he was he could have claimed Sam was a criminal or something. The riddle didn't say that hitmaning was his only job, it simply implied so.
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #12 on: Jul 13th, 2006, 9:37pm » |
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He also killed everyone else in the theatre?
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #13 on: Jul 14th, 2006, 5:05pm » |
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I google for lateral thinking puzzles and found a DIFFERENT puzzle to this but i reckon it's the same idea, | hidden: | | he was at a drive-in theater and shot sam who was in a convertable, by the end the ticket guy came to tell him to get out and saw he was dead! |
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #14 on: Jul 14th, 2006, 5:13pm » |
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also it was a | hidden: | | poison dart or something, but i reckon that's how he got out unnoticed. |
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #15 on: Jul 16th, 2006, 3:22pm » |
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I think that the crunching popcorn was part of the movie, there were other louder movies around so the gunshot could've been assumed to be part of another one, in addition to there being only two people in the theater. Sid left before the movie was over, then someone cleaning the floors after the movie was done found his body.
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #16 on: Jul 16th, 2006, 3:28pm » |
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Maybe it was an old Western.
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #17 on: Jul 16th, 2006, 7:05pm » |
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Perhaps Sam wasn't human, perhaps he was alien so nobody was sad he died. (sorry alien, they didn't get to kno ur personality and were too distracted by ur appearance) This is why they did an alien autopsy and Sid was awarded a medal for his bravery. He was the man hired by the government to kill him (kind of a hitman).
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #18 on: Jan 6th, 2007, 3:16pm » |
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Probibly he took a gun with a camafloging bullet, so no one SAW the shot, and shot the guy. The people didn't hear it because the music was loud, and he slipped away with an invisability shield around him. When the thing was over, everyone got up and saw the body. The police later came and investagated him. The bullet disinagrated into thin air and left no trace of a gun shot, just a bullet shaped hole. There were no mysteryous footprints beacuse everyone steped on it. HE HE, just a thought.... 
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #19 on: Mar 22nd, 2007, 3:42am » |
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K Sengupta never did tell us the correct answer, did he ?
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #20 on: Mar 22nd, 2007, 8:00am » |
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I furnish hereunder the solution to the puzzle in conformity with the
answer given in the book containing the problem.
SOLUTION:
Sid Shady shot Sam Sham with a blowgun using poisoned darts.
(NOTE:
It may be observed that an accurate solution to the foregoing problem
was already posted earlier in terms of the comments by BNC and graphia.)
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #21 on: Mar 23rd, 2007, 3:10pm » |
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i think that it would be during a gun fight, in a army movie, the loud fake gunshots would mask it, oh, and nice characters, where is Ari?
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #22 on: Mar 26th, 2007, 4:52pm » |
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I see. The silencer stereotype thing was holding me back. Blowgun is a much better choice, as it produces even less noise, I think. So you deliberately mentioned the silencer, just to mislead me, even though the answer is rather a similar one. This sure reminds me of some of the Conan Doyle stories. Not bad.
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #23 on: Mar 27th, 2007, 12:56am » |
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It says "the loudest sound was crunching popcorns". It could be the blowgun was loaded with popcorn. The scene was a very tense scene in a horror movie. When receiving popcorn in the hair at just that moment he died from a heart attack.
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Re: A Theater Crime Puzzle
« Reply #24 on: Mar 27th, 2007, 1:57am » |
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on Mar 27th, 2007, 12:56am, Grimbal wrote:| It says "the loudest sound was crunching popcorns". It could be the blowgun was loaded with popcorn. The scene was a very tense scene in a horror movie. When receiving popcorn in the hair at just that moment he died from a heart attack. |
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Again, leave it to Grimbal..
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