Play The Tape is a short riddle about a man who is found dead under mysterious circumstances. See if you can figure out the answer to this riddle. If you can’t get it, you’ll find the answer in the comments section below.
Play The Tape
Many years ago, there was a rich old man who lived alone in a mansion on top of a hill. One night, the police received a call saying that the man committed suicide. When they arrived at the scene, the old man’s butler opened the door. He said that he had been working late, cleaning up in the kitchen when he heard a shot ring out. He ran upstairs and was horrified to find his employer had killed himself.
The police asked to see the body and the butler led them upstairs, to the old man’s bedroom.
The old man was sitting, slumped over on his desk. There was a pool of blood around his head and there was a bullet wound in his temple. A gun was resting on the desk, just beside the old man’s right hand. Near his left hand, there was a tape recorder. After dusting the gun for fingerprints, they found only the fingerprints of the old man on it.
One of the policemen pressed the play button on the tape recorder. They heard the old man’s voice saying, “My name is Samuel Richardson, I’m lonely and unhappy so I have decided to leave this cruel world. I’m sorry. May God have mercy on my soul.” A second later, they heard the sound of a gunshot.
After listening to the tape, the police arrested the butler for murder.
Why did they arrest the butler?
The old man died, and then the tape stopped. The police only found the old man’s prints because butlers always wear gloves.
The “butler” did it. The “butler” forced him to say the words, then shot him. But that “butler” wasn’t who he said he was. The man lived ALONE.
The butler made the man say that stuff to make it seem like a suicide. Except the man wAsnt lonely, he had the butler, and you can’t press the stop button on a tape recorder if ur dead.
I still don’t get the answer……
Because the butler was the only one in the house? Idk, I suck at riddles XD
I’m happy I solved that one so fast! I’m getting good. I think it was easy.
BAD BUTLER!! >:(
whtt??? im so confused?
Butler doesn’t equal friend. Obviously the bulter wasn’t too friendly if he killed the old guy.
Ive heard this before!! It’s one of my favorite riddles. :D
ooooooooooooooooooo darn i was worng
who truned off the tape it had to be the butter
i hope i am right and i sear i did not read the correct answer before i submit this
THE OLD MAN LIVED ALONE…… HOW IT THERE A BUTLER!!!!!
butler made it look like the old man commit suicide
also, why would the gun be placed on the table by his right hand? I don’t know, that just didn’t really seem to add up. If someone were to shoot themselves, chances are they’d lose the gun also. Chances are, of course.
Answer: When the policeman pressed play on the tape, it started playing from the beginning. How could the old man rewind the tape after shooting himself in the head? The butler must have forced the old man to speak into the tape recorder, then murdered him and staged the scene to look like a suicide.
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How did the DEAD man stop the recorder after he shot himself???? hhhmmmm
Oh my God…
The butler did it!
Omg I need someone to talk to
@ dinofire
That could be a possibility as well :O
@ im_watching_you
lol the first guess was funny xD the story says that they found only the finger prints of the old man :)
maybe they heard the butler laugh evily on the tape when it was done or they looked at the gun and found the butlers finger prints
because it said that he lived alone, but then why is there a butler? I didnt read the answer :D
Haha LOL XD Silly butler :P If it was me, i would have thought of better ways to do it :P
The butler shot the cop after he finished the listening to the tape.