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The Logic Puzzle You Can Only Solve with Your Brightest Friend

You have to cleverly build “common knowledge” to solve this lethal riddle.Wikicommons

ou’ve been caught snooping around a spooky graveyard with your best friend. The caretaker, a bored old man fond of riddles (and not so fond of trespassers), imprisons each of you in a different room inside the storage shed, and, taking your phones, says, “Only your mind can set you free.” To you, he gestures toward a barred window. Through it, you can see 12 statues. Out of your friend’s window, which overlooks the opposite side of the graveyard,

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