Can't you speak clearly?

Logic Level 2

Person  Letter 1 2 3 4 Andy × Brandy × Candy × Dandy × \begin{array} {c | c | c | c | c } \text{Person \ Letter} & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ \hline \text{Andy} & \times & & & \\ \hline \text{Brandy} & &\times & & \\ \hline \text{Candy} & & & \times & \\ \hline \text{Dandy} & & & & \times \end{array}

Letters 1, 2, 3, and 4 were supposed to be delivered to Andy, Brandy, Candy, and Dandy, respectively. However, the delivery man made terrible mistakes and nobody got the right letter, hence the table above.

Andy and Brandy both know this, but Andy gives an additional information to Brandy by saying, "The letter I received is not Z Z ," with Z Z being one of 2, 3, 4. Brandy knows what Z Z is, whereas we the readers don't.

Using only this additional information given by Andy, Brandy immediately claims that she know which letter everyone received.

Given that all of them spoke the truth, can you determine which letter did Andy receive?

Letter number 4 Letter number 2 This is an impossible scenario Letter number 3

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3 solutions

Ajatshatru Singh
Feb 9, 2016

(PLEASE DO THE FOLLOWING BY DRAWING THE IMAGE,THAT IS IN THE QUESTION) We know that Brandy can get letter number 1,3,4 . If brandy gets letter number 1 it would be impossible for brandy to know which letter andy received , so 1 is out from this case So there would be following cases = -If brandy gets 3 ,then andy can get letter number 2 and 4 -If brandy gets 4 ,then andy can get letter number 2 and 3. Now , the important thing ,it has been written in the question that brandy knows that which letter is with whom.(that is brandy know which person is holding which letter ). SO THIS THING IS ONLY POSSIBLE WHEN ANDY RECEIVES LETTER NUMBER 2 (as in the other cases it would be impossible for brandy to know which person is holding which letter).

Daniel Liu
Jan 31, 2016

Andy receiving letter #3 versus Andy receiving letter #4 are equivalent cases symmetrically, so he couldn't have received #3 nor #4 or else we wouldn't know which. Thus he must have received #2.

Another nice solution! Thanks!

Pi Han Goh - 5 years, 4 months ago
Keanu Ac
May 28, 2017

3 and 4 are essentially the same. If Andy has letter 2, Brandy can have either 1, 3, 4. Regardless of which one she has, Candy. Dandy will have the wrong letter. For example, if letters 1 and 3 were left, then Candy could not have 3, leading the reader to deduce that Candy has 1.

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