Playing with your intuition

[poetrygirl]

That's easy. Go with the classics: Blow up the entire hotel. (just in case)
Fast, Efficient, Effective.
lol I really studied this question. I came up with all sorts of creative ways (dressing up as a chef poisoning his food, crawling through air vents) but none of them seemed realistic they seemed like a bad spy movie.
Have a package delivered to a room that you booked but have it under a false name with an automatic timer set to go off.
I'm basing this question on the assumption of course that I was a iron skinned homicidal highly trained assassin who cared nothing about innocent people.

My story (listed above)

 

[Sithious]

That's easy. Go with the classics: Blow up the entire hotel. (just in case)
Fast, Efficient, Effective.
lol I really studied this question. I came up with all sorts of creative ways (dressing up as a chef poisoning his food, crawling through air vents) but none of them seemed realistic they seemed like a bad spy movie.
Have a package delivered to a room that you booked but have it under a false name with an automatic timer set to go off.
I'm basing this question on the assumption of course that I was a iron skinned homicidal highly trained assassin who cared nothing about innocent people.

My story (listed above)

Blowing up the hotel causes massive attention, I really doubt your contractor would enjoy risking being in the spotlight. An explosion like that would lead to a huge investigation and there's a good chance you would get caught, considering the scope of the situation and the amount of people that would need to be involved to blow up an entire hotel. Besides getting enough explosives to blow up an entire hotel is incredibly implausible, not to mention even if you did, you have no guarantee if the politician dies, he could survive.

And it's very hard to get that amount of explosives into an hotel without getting caught, not to mention eye witnesses. It's a bit supicious if you bring hundreds of bags into the hotel, and yes you would at least that to be able to blow up an entire hotel. This isn't the movies you know.

So Fast? NO. Efficient? NO. Effective well, if you did against all odds manage to blow up the hotel then guy most likely would have been killed, but you can't know that, and you must, you're a hitman.

Dressing up as a chef? Yeah, sure, noone in the staff would notice that someone who's never worked there before suddenly turns up as the chef. In that case you would need to apply for a job weeks or days in advance, and the scenario never stated that you had weeks or several to finish the job. I think it's pretty much in the cards that this was classified information and couldn't have been availible weeks or many days in advance. And even if it was you'd still have no guarantee you got the job, and even if you got the job as even a chef, how would you know what food to poison? Not to mention eye witnesses. And you would have to have the skills of a chef, or you would get fired pretty fast. In that case it's much better to be the one who delivers the food to the rooms, however you can't know if they will actually order room service, so that's a bad idea. Besides you don't know who will consume the goods, maybe it's the guards, which would screw up that plan.

Oh and your package, what kind of explosives is in that can make it blow up an entire hotel? Is it perhaps a hydrogen bomb?

Oh and that air vent plan, you would need the plans for the entire hotel's air ventilation system and it would have to be big enough for you to actually pass through, which you can't know in advance. Besides even if you are lucky it's hard to pull of, so when you are in the vent in the hotel room, you have to get down to the hotel room, how? And if you manage that chances are the guard will hear sounds and you will get shot and killed.

Now try to come up with a plausible plan. You get this mission at 0800, and the politician will arrive some unknown time during the next day.

 

[Milon]

Either way there'll be massive attention - we're talking about assassination of a political figure.

Unless, of course, you can mask the murder as accident or death by natural causes....

 

[poetrygirl]

My gosh people I was thinking on terms of Cartoon land or something. You people really take this seriously. It's a really hard question. Maybe you should try it then?

 

[Milon]

Got it. Sprinkle anthrax in front of his door, on the handle, etc. You can easily do this any number of ways without detection. You can also sprinkle it in several random locations to give the appearance that it was the hotel that was targeted, and not the individual.

 

[AUM]

Blowing up the hotel causes massive attention, I really doubt your contractor would enjoy risking being in the spotlight. An explosion like that would lead to a huge investigation and there's a good chance you would get caught, considering the scope of the situation and the amount of people that would need to be involved to blow up an entire hotel. Besides getting enough explosives to blow up an entire hotel is incredibly implausible, not to mention even if you did, you have no guarantee if the politician dies, he could survive.

And it's very hard to get that amount of explosives into an hotel without getting caught, not to mention eye witnesses. It's a bit supicious if you bring hundreds of bags into the hotel, and yes you would at least that to be able to blow up an entire hotel. This isn't the movies you know.

So Fast? NO. Efficient? NO. Effective well, if you did against all odds manage to blow up the hotel then guy most likely would have been killed, but you can't know that, and you must, you're a hitman.

Dressing up as a chef? Yeah, sure, noone in the staff would notice that someone who's never worked there before suddenly turns up as the chef. In that case you would need to apply for a job weeks or days in advance, and the scenario never stated that you had weeks or several to finish the job. I think it's pretty much in the cards that this was classified information and couldn't have been availible weeks or many days in advance. And even if it was you'd still have no guarantee you got the job, and even if you got the job as even a chef, how would you know what food to poison? Not to mention eye witnesses. And you would have to have the skills of a chef, or you would get fired pretty fast. In that case it's much better to be the one who delivers the food to the rooms, however you can't know if they will actually order room service, so that's a bad idea. Besides you don't know who will consume the goods, maybe it's the guards, which would screw up that plan.

Oh and your package, what kind of explosives is in that can make it blow up an entire hotel? Is it perhaps a hydrogen bomb?

Oh and that air vent plan, you would need the plans for the entire hotel's air ventilation system and it would have to be big enough for you to actually pass through, which you can't know in advance. Besides even if you are lucky it's hard to pull of, so when you are in the vent in the hotel room, you have to get down to the hotel room, how? And if you manage that chances are the guard will hear sounds and you will get shot and killed.

Now try to come up with a plausible plan. You get this mission at 0800, and the politician will arrive some unknown time during the next day.

Either way there'll be massive attention - we're talking about assassination of a political figure.

Unless, of course, you can mask the murder as accident or death by natural causes....

My gosh people I was thinking on terms of Cartoon land or something. You people really take this seriously. It's a really hard question. Maybe you should try it then?

Got it. Sprinkle anthrax in front of his door, on the handle, etc. You can easily do this any number of ways without detection. You can also sprinkle it in several random locations to give the appearance that it was the hotel that was targeted, and not the individual.

You are all starting to scare me with your stories, and I just forgot I had to do something...so...umm...yeah, I'm leaving ***runs away****

 

[Sithious]

Got it. Sprinkle anthrax in front of his door, on the handle, etc. You can easily do this any number of ways without detection. You can also sprinkle it in several random locations to give the appearance that it was the hotel that was targeted, and not the individual.

There are two guards outside his doors guarding at all times, ofc at times there will be only one as one have to go to the bathroom etc. Unless you want to die of it yourself, you need a full protection suit, or something along those lines. I think the guard would be alert if someone with a full protection suit walks by and sprays anthrax in their face and outside the door. Sure it may infect the politician, but you would possibly be attacked by the two guards and put to arrest. Also the first thing they would do after such an event would be going to the doctor, unless they are retards ofc.

So slim chances of actually killing him, and big chances of getting caught. Not a brilliant plan

 

[Sithious]

Yes, the scenario is very hard, but that's the point you have to really think hard to solve it.

 

[Sithious]

A solution?

Well, you can easily find out which room they are staying in by looking at where the guards are guarding (you know how they look, as stated in the OP), then if the area around the hotel allows it, you can find a sniper position and shoot the politician in his room through one of the windows. Ofc you'd have to take into account that the bullet trajectory would be affected slightly by the glass.

However this method is very dependant on the area around the hotel, which is not stated. So it's not the best solution.

Another way to solve this puzzle, is to start a significant fire to create a distraction ( you could also pull the fire alarm, however this could easily be turned off by the control room which does not detect any fire) Then when him and his guards have evacuated you can place a bomb or poison in the room if they have not locked the door, which is rather unlikely. Not to mention your fire could burn down the entire hotel for all you know and they could escape as the area is no longer safe. Still before you have started the fire, you have placed small remote control bombs in all exit ways the politician can go. (since they need to be hidden you might have to place certain objects like plants and such in the paths so the bombs aren't in the wide open) Then you follow them and blow the specific bomb they are near. You'd have to make sure he is dead ofc, and kill him with a gun if the blast didn't kill him, but you would make sure it would.

It's hard yes, but it could be done. It would lead to a big investigation, but the only trail you're leaving behind is the bomb debris, which is bombs you could have made yourself thus being practically untraceable. Since you might have to place certain objects you'd need the whole day you have in advance to make research regarding the hotel, are there people walking around at all hours, when are there none etc. You'd probably use the night at the day the politician arrives to place your stash and start the fire at night or early in the morning.

And you must try not be seen doing it

 

[Milon]

Another horrible approach:

Creative individuals will find a way to confirm when the Target is in the hotel. Windows can be handy, as can children looking for extra cash. Deliver (or have delivered) a package to the hotel containing a small nuclear warhead (a W54 SADM for instance). Remote detonate before anyone can discover what it is. Target has been eliminated... in fact, the whole block has! :tongue1:

 

[Sithious]

Another horrible approach:

Creative individuals will find a way to confirm when the Target is in the hotel. Windows can be handy, as can children looking for extra cash. Deliver (or have delivered) a package to the hotel containing a small nuclear warhead (a W54 SADM for instance). Remote detonate before anyone can discover what it is. Target has been eliminated... in fact, the whole block has! :tongue1:

Now that's a plan!

People would automatically think Muslim terrorists stood behind this and you'd never get caught! :madgrin:

 

[Shai Gar]

I like how twisted you lot are.

 

[evalura]

You're walking through a forest, it's windy and a chilly breeze is hitting your face. It looks very calm and peaceful there, however you find yourself a little bit uneasy and you don't know why. It's getting dark but you keep walking and in each step you feel even more uncomfortable. What is some of the possible posiblities that this character is feeling uneasy? What is going through his/her mind?

As I stumble through the shadows, I sense someone is watching. I pick up my pace, choosing my steps oh, so, carefully so as to make the least sound possible. Behind me I can hear twigs snap, leaves rustling but when I turn, I see nothing in the pitch darkness. I'm running now, blinking the water from my blurring eyes. How cold it has become since darkness fell. I am almost to the clearing now and I can see the glow of lights coming from a cottage. Something bushes past, I feel the the drag against my cloak, there is a low grumble that I can not hear with my ears but I can feel in the pit of my stomach.
I am in the open now, only a few feet from the cottage door. I throw open the door and stop to catch my breath, the fire on the hearth casts a soft glow in the room. I hang my red cloak on the peg by the door then I slowly walk down the hall. When I enter the darkened bedroom the first thing I notice is a dank, musty smell permeating the room. I quietly approach the end of the bed, my beloved grandmother has been so ill lately, I do not want to disturb her. But wait, something is not quite right.....

 

[Cecilff2]

Hmm, I was expecting something interesting, instead I get all this touchy feely scenarioes.

How about this, you're an assassin, and you are set out on a mission to kill a very important political figure. This political figure is being escorted to an Hotel in an armored car from an unknown location sometime during the 28th of June, and he will stay there during the night. The armored car will arrive in an underground parking lot with heavy surveillance, and three bodyguards will escort him to the nearest elevator which takes him to his room (first the floor then the room ofc). However you have no idea which room he will go to nor which floor.

When he arrives at his hotel room, 2 guards will stay outside the entrance, while 1 is inside. The next day he will leave at an unknown time to an unknown location.

 

[Sithious]

Considering we know what elevator he's going to use, I can see all sorts of ways to setup his death before he ever arrives. Going with the anthrax route, you could spray the buttons before they get there. But there's plenty of other ways. The elevator is an easy way to get to him.

We don't know which elevator he is going to use. However we can assume he would take the same elevator when he leaves, as it seems logical.

The nearest elevator means the elevator nearest to his car. There are more than one elevator.

 

[Cecilff2]

Do the same to each then?