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There are two kinds of people on a mysterious island.....................................

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There are two kinds of people on a mysterious island. There are so-called Honestants who speak always the truth, and the others are Swindlecants who always lie.
Three fellows (A, B and C) are having a quarrel at the market. A gringo goes by and asks the A fellow: "Are you an Honestant or a Swindlecant?" The answer is incomprehensible so the gringo gives another quite logical question to B: "What did A say?" B answers: "A said that he is a Swindlecant." And to that says the fellow C: "Do not believe B, he is lying!"

Who is B and C?

posted Sep 18, 2014 by anonymous

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B is a Swindlecant and C is the Honestant; if A was really a Swindlecant, he would lie and say that he isn't, because both Swindlecants and Honestants will say that they are Honestants, except one is lying and the other one is not. C is the Honestant because C knows that B is lying (A did not admit that he was a Swindlecant), and C is telling the truth.

answer Dec 7, 2016 by anonymous



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