In the Court of Law #1 (Solution)

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A prisoner at the bar was allowed to say one sentence to defend himself. After a while he said, “A swindlecant committed the crime.” Did it rescue him?

One thing that could rescue the prisoner is if he could convince that he did not commit the crime. He said that a swindlecant committed the crime (or in other words, an honestant did not commit the crime). So far, we don’t know whether he is an honestant or a swindlecant, nor whether he committed the crime or not. But we know that there are 4 possibilities as below:

Now we can see that whether he’s an honestant or a swindlecant, he didn’t commit the crime. And it rescued him.

P.S.: This brain teaser I copied from Brain Teasers (http://brainden.com/logic-problems.htm). Just on click on that link, then you’ll get more brain teasers to tease your brain or even just to ease your boring day. When you get stuck, you can visit brain teasers forum to get extra “clues” from them whom have tried to solve it (but for me, it’s better to do it by myself as I did in solving this quiz).