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Bungled Heist - Logic Puzzles

After a local bungled heist, five suspects were being interviewed by the police.

Eventually, the police managed to get a confession.

Below is a summary of their statements and it turns out that exactly 5 of these statements were true.

Would you make a good detective, try and work out who committed the crime?
Alex said:
It wasn't Brook
It was Charlie

Brook said:
It wasn't Alex
It was Dale

Charlie said:
It wasn't Dale
It wasn't Brook

Dale said:
It wasn't Emery
It was Alex

Emery said:
It wasn't Charlie
It was Dale

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Answer
Emery committed the crime.

Reasoning
If we assume that Alex was the culprit we can see that there would be 6 true statements, but we know there were exactly 5 true statements, so it can't be Alex.

We can repeat this will all five suspects and quickly see that only Emery being the culprit would result in exactly 5 statements being true.

 

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