Suspicious Murder
Logic
Level
1
One afternoon, a man was murdered in a village house. There were four people living in that house:
- A Gardener
- A Cook
- A Businessman (not the man who was murdered)
- A Teenager
Each made a statement:
- The Gardener said: "I was watering the plants."
- The Cook said: "I was cooking breakfast."
- The Businessman said: "I was reading a book."
- The Teenager said: "I was playing the piano."
Who murdered the man?
Note: Only 1 person was the murderer.
The Gardener
The Businessman
The Cook
The Teenager
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1 solution
The cook said: "I was cooking breakfast." But the man was murdered in the afternoon, so how could the cook be cooking breakfast at the time?
All of the other people's statements were reasonable, so the cook was the murderer.