Modals: Speculation and Deduction | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

CRIME! Every day, a man used to cross the border on a bicycle with two bags of sand. The border officers got a tip that he is a smuggler. So the customs officers checked his and found they had only sand. As they could not find any evidence,

He was smuggling bicycles.

CRIME! A woman named Cathy goes to the police claiming that someone broke into her house and stole her diamond bracelet while she was at work. The policemen investigate the crime scene and notice that the bedroom window is broken. There are

Cathy was convicted of fraud because the bedroom window was broken from the inside. If somebody had broken in from the outside, there would have been glass piec

CRIME! A couple went to Hawaii for their honeymoon. Unfortunately, the husband returned home alone because his wife had died in a horrible boating accident. The police contacted the travel agent he booked the trip with and arrested him for

The travel agent revealed that he had only booked a one-way ticket for his wife.

CRIME! A girl is at the funeral of her mother. She meets a nice guy that she didn’t know who also was at the funeral and they hit it off. She was busy at the funeral and didn’t have time to ask him for his number before he left. She tried r

She killed her sister. She was hoping that if someone else in her family died, the man she met at her mother’s funeral would show up again.

CRIME! Marissa and Juliana went out for drinks together. They ordered the same drink. Juliana was really thirsty and finished five in the time it took Marissa to finish one. The drinks were poisoned, but only Marissa died. How?

The poison was in the ice. Since Marissa’s ice had time to melt, she was poisoned but Juliana wasn’t.

EVIDENCE Your school/ work mate is selling all his/her furniture.

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EVIDENCE As you are walking on the street, everybody stops you and asks for your autograph.

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EVIDENCE On your way back home, you see lots of reporters and press cars in front of your house.

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EVIDENCE There is a person sitting across from a hotel filming everyone who goes in and out.

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EVIDENCE You walk into the library and all the books have disappeared.

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EVIDENCE You meet an interesting person in a café. You are talking and you notice he/ she has paint on his/ her back.

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EVIDENCE Your teacher is wearing different colour socks.

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EVIDENCE You are not home and your best friend leaves you 20 “call me” messages.

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EVIDENCE Your neighbour is leaving the house running.

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