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Can you solve the secret werewolf riddle? - Daniel Finkel

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You’re on the trail of a werewolf that’s been terrorizing your town. After months of detective work, you’ve narrowed your suspects to one of five people. You’ve invited them to dinner with a simple plan: to slip a square of a rare antidote into each of their dinners. Unfortunately, you only have one square left. Can you divide it into perfect fifths and cure the werewolf? Dan Finkel shows how.

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How did the werewolf from your town get infected?

the werewolf, or the carpenter got infected by a werewolf in a town were all the people tell the truth, but at least one of those humans is a Lie-telling werewolf. there are 100 people, all claiming, "at least one of us is a human" . How many of them are actually werewolves?

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