Wrong Letter Puzzle
BrainBashers electronic pocket word processor is playing up again.
In each of the well know sayings below, every word has one letter that is wrong.
What should each sentence read?
Ill food thinks dust dome so in and.
Chat yog sea it chat yog wet.
Top mane corks smoil tie froth.
Beast sand moonest bended.
Sore sweed yess waste.
Bed sly it fight, shipherd's defight.
Solution (Previous Puzzle):
Steve Short won on Blue Paws.
By grouping the clues together we have:
1 Dave Diddy won on Morning Sunset.
2 Dave Diddy won on Quick Cloud.
3 Dave Diddy won on Quick Cloud.
4 Simon Small won on Blue Paws.
5 Simon Small won on Blue Paws.
6 Simon Small won on Blue Paws.
7 Simon Small won on Morning Sunset.
8 Steve Short won on Morning Sunset.
9 Steve Short won on Quick Cloud.
10 Tim Tiny won on Blue Paws.
11 Tim Tiny won on Morning Sunset.
12 Tim Tiny won on Quick Cloud.
As none of these statements were fully true, setting up a grid helps and entering crosses for these clues allows us to eliminate them:
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Blue Paws
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Morning Sunset
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Quick Cloud
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Dave Diddy
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O
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X
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X
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Simon Small
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X
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X
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O
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Steve Short
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O
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X
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X
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Tim Tiny
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X
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X
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X
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Which now only leaves three possibilities. We know that exactly 6 of the clues must be half true.
If it was Dave Diddy on Blue Paws then exactly 7 clues would be half true (clues 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10).
If it was Simon Small on Quick Cloud then exactly 8 clues would be half true (clues 4, 5, 6, 7, 2, 3, 9, 12).
If it was Steve Short on Blue Paws then exactly 6 clues would be half true (clues 8, 9, 4, 5, 6, 10) - so this must be the correct answer.
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