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September 17, 2009 at 1:09 pm (GMT) by Emilie | 56 Comments Latest by Mike Whelan

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Hardboiled, Part Twelve

Prevarication

There was no way out. Mary blocked our exit, carving knife in her hand. She didn’t look like any farmer’s wife we’d ever seen, but we weren’t going to quibble. All the other details fit and we figured we knew what was coming next.

“I’m going to ask one of you a question,” Mary said, “and I know that one of you is incapable of lying to me. So before I ask the question, you’d better tell me which one of you it is.”
We weren’t dumb. Yes, one of us always tells the truth, while the other two were perfectly capable of lying. But we’d prepared for moments like this, when someone would try to exploit our Achilles heel. So we put on our little show for her.

Sam said, “Ray is a liar.”
Ray said, “Nick is a liar.”
Nick said, “Sam and Ray are both liars!.”

Mary glared at us angrily and then her eyes narrowed. She paced up and down gesticulating with her knife. She went to run her hand through her hair and dislodged a wig, revealing long golden curls. I was just thinking to myself that she looked familiar when she pointed her knife at one of us, “All right, you–you’re the one who always tells the truth. Let me just ask you this one question…”

QUESTION: Presuming she got it right, which mouse was Mary talking to?



Answers in the comments please - we’ll approve all the comments tomorrow when we announce the answers. New to the quiz? It’s part of MOO’s third birthday celebrations!

56 Responses to “Question 37 in our cryptic quiz: “Three is the magic number””
  1. Aandnota

    Sam

  2. Matt Hryhorsky

    She’s talking to the mouse telling the story. The Narrator.

  3. Liz Randell

    Ray. I hope I’ve got this right!lol

  4. Daniel

    Ray … ?

  5. Mike

    Mary is talking to Ray because he’s the one telling the truth.

  6. Kat

    Nick

  7. Chi

    Ray speaks the truth.

  8. Victoria

    Ray

  9. Jeff

    Ray is telling the truth.

  10. Aaron Kafton

    Nick.

  11. Lorna Morris

    She’s talking to Sam

  12. jessica Goldberg

    Ray

  13. Andy

    Nick.

  14. Christina

    Mary is talking to Ray

  15. Dominic

    Ray

  16. Abby Carinder

    Ray is the truth telling mouse.

  17. jgardy

    Nick!

  18. Stephanie

    Nick

  19. Sally

    Ray

  20. macpug

    She was talking to Ray

  21. Kevin

    She was talking to Ray.

  22. Eric

    Presuming that the liars always lie, I’d say Mary was talking to Nick.

  23. stefania

    Nick

  24. Sarah McCallion

    Nick!

  25. Melissa

    Mary was talking to Nick!

  26. Bart Braem

    Ray

  27. yenju

    she’s speaking to Ray

  28. Michael

    Ray is telling the truth.

  29. Isabelle

    She was talking to Ray.

  30. Calvin Tam

    Nick

  31. Kerri Singh

    Nick

  32. David

    Nick

  33. Oriol

    Mary was talking to Ray.

    The only sensible option is that Ray is incapable of lying. Sam is lying. And Nick is lying because his sentence is a lie whether only one of them are lying as if are lying both.

    Sam is lying (because Ray can’t lie) and Nick is lying too (becouse only Sam lies now).

  34. Scott

    Ray

  35. Justine

    Nick is not a liar.

  36. Kelly

    Ray!

  37. Hannah Getty

    Ray

  38. istoo

    Ray.

  39. Cherry

    RAY

  40. Agata

    To tell the truth, Ray was telling the truth.

  41. Aaron McFann

    Ray always tells the truth.

  42. melanie

    Ray

  43. Janet

    Ray

  44. Jo Carter

    Ray

  45. Vivian Kendall

    Ray

  46. Sophia

    Ray.

  47. Nina Udvadia

    Ray

  48. ellesy

    Ray is telling the truth.

  49. Vince Foo

    Ray

  50. Dave

    Ray.

  51. Vicki

    Mary was talking to Nick, of course!

  52. Katie

    Mary was talking to Ray.

  53. Anne Carr

    Ray

  54. Anastasia

    Mary is talking to the narrator, the mouse which is not lying.

  55. Annie

    Nick

  56. Mike Whelan

    Nick

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