Everything changed when the fire crystal got stolen - Alex Gendler
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Someone has tripped the magical alarms in the Element Temple. When you and the other monks arrive on the scene, you know you have a disaster on your hands. Four young apprentices broke into the temple’s inner chamber to steal the sacred element crystals. But when the alarm went off they panicked, and each of them swallowed a crystal. Can you determine who ate which crystal? Alex Gendler shows how.
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The young apprentices who tried to steal the four element crystals have bitten off more than they can chew. Can you figure out which one has which crystal before it’s too late?
Learn more about proof by contradiction and the underlying philosophical argument of reductio ad absurdum.
Learn more about proof by contradiction and the underlying philosophical argument of reductio ad absurdum.

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