After a Christmas Tree theft, six suspects were being interviewed.
Below is a summary of their statements.
The police know that exactly four of them told one lie each and all of the other statements are true.
Mike said:
It wasn’t Brian
It wasn’t Dave
It wasn’t Eddie
Brian said:
It wasn’t Mike
It wasn’t Joshua
It wasn’t Eddie
Joshua said:
It wasn’t Brian
It wasn’t Freddie
It wasn’t Eddie
Dave said:
It wasn’t Mike
It wasn’t Freddie
It wasn’t Joshua
Eddie said:
It wasn’t Joshua
It wasn’t Dave
It wasn’t Freddie
Freddie said:
It wasn’t Joshua
It wasn’t Dave
It wasn’t Mike
From this information can you tell who committed the crime?
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All answers are negative … so-and-so didn’t do it. Therefor the person who did do it is the subject of lies. Four of the people tell one lie each. A review of the answers show that Josh “didn’t do it” four times, Therefor Josh did it!
Howard, you are right and today’s winner.
In the Great Christmas Tree Heist, Joshua committed the crime. If any other person had committed the crime there would not be exactly 4 lies told.