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Hey lazy heads! can you solve this problem?
Benito Torelli, a small time casino boss, gets his throat slit when he refuses to pay out protection money. The local police round up five subjects, who make the following statements:
THEO: I didn't kill Torelli. I never use a blade anyhow. Razor did it.
RAZOR: I'm innocent. Any of these schmucks who says I did it is lying. Must have been that hooker Roxane who got Torelli.
ROXANNE: I never wiped out Torelli. I was with Mustafah at the time. Wally pulled the Job.
WALLY: I did not kill Torelli. I've never been inside a casino. I am distinguished computer scientist.
MUSTAFAH: I'm innocent. I never saw Roxanne before. Razor did it.
Each subject uttered two truths and one falsehood. Which one of them spifflicated Benito?
How did you figure it out?
I guess I should of added this.
This is not homework. I'm a philosophy student and I read it in a book about AI (a class I took two semesters ago). I found it interesting and wanted to share it.
Each subject uttered two truths and one falsehood. Both Theo and Mustafah say Razor did it. But two things out of three that Razor says are about his supposed guilt: if one of these is false, the other is, too, which is impossible. So Razor is innocent, and Theo and Mustafah both lied about him being guilty. So the other two things Theo and Mustafah said must be true. So Roxanne lied about being with Mustafah at the time. Which means that she never wiped out Torelli, and that Wally pulled the job.
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