Chemist Murder

Logic Level 1

A famous chemist was murdered in his own lab. There was no evidence except for a piece of paper with the names of chemical substances on it. On the day he was murdered, the chemist had only 3 visitors: his wife, Mary, his nephew Nicolas, and his friend Jonathan.

The police arrested the murderer right away. Who was it?

Read the piece of paper in the picture.

Mary Jonathan Nicolas

Ceci K. by Ceci K. , 15, Hong Kong

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1 solution

Ceci K.
Aug 11, 2018

The piece of paper had a clue on it. If you combine the short names of the chemical substances on the paper, you’ll get a name: Ni-C-O-La-S. So the murderer was the chemist's nephew, Nicolas.

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A good question. It is quite different from all the murderer questions on brilliant.

Ram Mohith - 2 years, 10 months ago

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It is an example of murder questions that have clues for the solvers to answer the questions.

Ceci K. - 2 years, 10 months ago

I think that this problem should be under chemistry or another science rather than logic

Adrian Ma - 1 year, 2 months ago

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but it involves a bit more logic than science sure u have to know science skills to find the short names but that is the only scienceskills part

NSCS 747 - 11 months ago

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