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Who is the Killer? : Detective Puzzle
Solve the Detective puzzle and find the killer?
There are 5 friends A, B, C, D, and E. One day one of them killed one of the other 5.
The detectives found the following clues:-
- A ran in the marathon yesterday with one of the innocent men.
- B considered being a farmer before he moved to the city.
- C is a software engineer and wants to fix D’s computer the next week,
- The killer had leg surgery last month
- D met E for the first time six months ago
- E has been in seclusion since the murder
- A used to drink
- D and C built their computer together
- The killer is E’s brother, and they grew up in Seattle.
From these clues, who was the killer? And who was the one killed?
Who is the Killer? : Detective Puzzle
Solve the Detective puzzle and find the killer?
There are 5 friends A, B, C, D, and E. One day one of them killed one of the other 5.
The detectives found the following clues:-
- A ran in the marathon yesterday with one of the innocent men.
- B considered being a farmer before he moved to the city.
- C is a software engineer and wants to fix D’s computer the next week,
- The killer had leg surgery last month
- D met E for the first time six months ago
- E has been in seclusion since the murder
- A used to drink
- D and C built their computer together
- The killer is E’s brother, and they grew up in Seattle.
From these clues, who was the killer? And who was the one killed?
Solution
C is the killer and C killed B.
Let us examine all the hints that are given,
- From deduction no.9. We can say E is cleared as the killer is E’s brother
- From deduction no.1. We can clear A, as A recently ran in a marathon, and the killer had leg surgery. Therefore we can assume that he is in no state to run a marathon.
- From deductions no. 9 and 5. We know that D met E six months ago, while the killer and E grew up together in Seattle. Therefore D is not the killer.
- From deduction no.8. C had plans with D for the upcoming week, so we can assume that C is alive.
- From deduction no.2. Since B moved into the city and wanted to be a farmer, we can assume that he did not grow up in Seattle. Thus B is not E’s brother.
Since we have cleared everyone except B and C, we have deduced that C is alive, while not having any information about B’s whereabouts. We can conclude that B is dead and C is the one who killed him.
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