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Problems 6 and 7 have now been correctly answered. Congrats, folks! :)

6. Yes, the man should enter the third room. The way the puzzle is phrased, the reader is meant to think that the lions would be extremely hungry and would immediately devour a man who entered the room. The key is to realize (as you folks did) that if the lions hadn't eaten in three years, they'd be dead.

7. Also correct, the woman is a photographer. She shot her husband with a camera, held the picture underwater to develop it, and then hung the picture on a line.

That still leaves Problem 5.

Sorry, no. The woman was not looking at a reflection of herself, nor was she looking at a television. She really did see a man strangling a woman when she looked through her windows.

Here's a small hint : Try reading the question again, but this time, read it very literally. The way it's set up, the reader is meant to assume something that is actually not the case.

Regarding Lotstar's Problem 1 :

At first, I thought this was the classic puzzle that a man jumped out the window of a 10-story building and somehow survived, and the solution is that he jumped out a window on the first floor of the 10-story building. But then I realized that the question actually says he jumped out a window on the 10th story.

I don't have a clue. I keep thinking of things that seem too contrived (like that there was a balcony on the other side of the window that he hit instead).