Detective! Are you available for another case? It is a murder case. Can you find out who is the murderer is in this home? Good luck! Puzzle: One evening there was a murder in the home of married couple, their son and daughter. One of these four people murdered one of the others. One of the members of the family witnessed the crime. The other one helped the murderer. These are the things we know for sure:
Answer: We know from (3) that the youngest person was not the victim, from (4) that the youngest person was not the helper and from (6) that the youngest person was not the killer. The youngest person can only have been the witness therefore. We can work out from (5) that the father was the oldest, from (2) that the youngest person must have been the daughter. Therefore the next to the youngest must have been the son and the next to the oldest, the mother. From the statements, we can sort out the members based on age, from oldest to youngest as: Father, Mother, Son, Daughter. We can come to the following conclusion: Mother – Murderer Father – Helper Son – Victim Daughter – Witness Next Puzzle: Emergency at the Bank
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