   A Riddle/Test/Exercise in Lateral Thinking/...
  I was asked this yesterday and thought it would be kinda cool to see if anyone could get it right.If you have heard it before and know the answer then please don't answer or give hints. Also no googling - try and work it out for yourselves or it spoils the fun [grin]Ok...A woman is at her mother's funeral when she sees a man she has never met before. She falls in love with the man at first sight but the man leaves before the funeral is over and the woman was unable to get the man's name of any means of contacting him.Two weeks later the woman kills her sister ...why?Regards,ViLiO   
He was the sisters husband?   ;Quote:Original post by CowardShe's never seen her sister's husband? That doesn't sound right.My answer: she's driving her car and collides with her sister.;  I know this one.I'll leave it open for others though (Unless GameDev has a way to hide text...which is harder now because of the 2 themes).-Jeff   ;  I would guess the man was her mothers secret lover, and the sister was their child.   ;  - The man was at her mother's funeral, so it's safe to assume the man knew her somehow. Very likely they are related, although he could possibly be a good friend or aquaintence.Here's a list of ideas (in relation to the mother):-husband-father-brother-uncle-son-nephew-cousin-son in law-brother in law-father in lawHusband, you may be asking? I say sure. Suppose the daughter and the sister she killed were twins separated at birth. One twin lived with the mother and the other with the father. At the mother's funeral, the daugher who lived with her mother fell in love with her father, Oedipus-style. When she found out a week later that it was her biological father, she flipped out and killed her sister for not telling her.Okay, that was awful. [grin]EDIT: Okay, I think Michalson's version was where I was headed, but something very wrong happened along the way. [lol]   ;  So far you've come up with some rather obscure but cool answers but nobody is technically correct yet. You all seem to add in extra information that was not provided in the riddle and everything you need has been given [smile]Like I said, if you do know please don't say yet. I'd like to let it run just a little while longer in the hope that somebody gets it right without any help [grin]   ;  Yeah I heard this not too long ago, it's an interesting one that's for sure.   ;  The man was the sister?   ;  It's elementary, my dear Watson! The man was professor Moriarty himself. She owed him money, but didn't pay. First, he killed her mother. Then, he killed her sister and arranged it this way that she was accussed of murder.   