(Taken from the book "Logical Deduction Puzzles" by George J. Summers)
Malice and Alice
Alice, Alice's husband, their son, their daughter, and Alice's brother were involved in a murder. One of the five killed one of the other four. The following facts refer to the five people mentioned:
1. A man and a woman were together in a bar at the time of the murder.
2. The victim and the killer were together on a beach at the time of the murder.
3. One of Alice's two children was alone at the time of the murder.
4. Alice and her husband were not together at the time of the murder.
5. The victim's twin was not the killer.
6. The killer was younger than the victim.
Which one of the five was the victim?
This is a difficult one!, the more I try to solve it the more difficult it seems, but i'll say that Alice's husband was the victim and Alice's daughter was the criminal...
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Wow!!!! I agree with you Rafael, this is hard!!!
ReplyDeleteI was going to say the victim was the husband too, but what about the twin they mentioned???
I don´t know the answer!!!
Pleeeease tell us...
Solution: If you consider that Alice's son and daughter were adults, the only possible scenario is...Alice was with her son at the bar. Then the child who was alone was her daughter. Therefore Alice's husband was with Alice's brother on the beach. The victim could not be Alice's husband because none of the others could be his twins. But the victim could be Alice's brother because Alice could be his twin. Finally, Alice's brother was the victin and Alice's husband was the killer.
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