Bungled Heist - Logic Puzzles
After a local bungled heist, five suspects were being interviewed by the police.
Eventually, the police managed to get a confession.
Below is a summary of their statements, and it turns out that exactly 5 of these statements were true.
Would you make a good detective? Try and work out who committed the crime.
Alex said:
It wasn't Brook
It was Charlie
Brook said:
It wasn't Alex
It was Dale
Charlie said:
It wasn't Dale
It wasn't Brook
Dale said:
It wasn't Emery
It was Alex
Emery said:
It wasn't Charlie
It was Dale
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Answer
Emery committed the crime.
Reasoning
If we assume that Alex was the culprit, we can see that there would be 6 true statements, but we know there were exactly 5 true statements, so it can't be Alex.
We can repeat this will all five suspects and quickly see that only Emery being the culprit would result in exactly 5 statements being true.
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