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Accountants and Lawyers
You are attending a business meeting which consists of only accountants and lawyers. From your previous dealings with these two professions, you know that accountants always tell the truth about everything, and lawyers always lie about something.
Two gentlemen, Sam and Adam, approach you. Sam introduces himself and says, "I am a lawyer, but Adam is an accountant."
Based on what you know from your previous dealings, what are each of the men's actual professions?
Two gentlemen, Sam and Adam, approach you. Sam introduces himself and says, "I am a lawyer, but Adam is an accountant."
Based on what you know from your previous dealings, what are each of the men's actual professions?
Answer
Both Sam and Adam are lawyers.Since an accountant ALWAYS tells the truth about everything, he would never say that he is a lawyer. Therefore, Sam must be a lawyer. Since he is telling the truth about being a lawyer, and you know that he always lies about something, he must be lying about the second part of his statement. Therefore, Adam is not an accountant but also a lawyer.
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Fun and easy. Well done!
Braingle must be making me clevererer - I got this!
I cannot lie (I'm an accountant) -- this was easy but fun.
Great teaser but one thing: I didn't get it that lawyers only lied about one thing. Still, great teaser!!!!
good one but it was a bit confusing
You put down what the characters should be in this kind of teaser and for this I applaud you. Great teaser, a bit easy, but great.
Really good! (I wonder if you could weave a Real Estate Agent in amongst the lawyers????)
Hey! Im an honest man, and my profesion is being a lawyer! JK, good one! also by the way boodler, cleverer isn't a word, so braingle must be getting you more stupid.
eh
VERY NICE.
I didn't understand why Sam couldn't have been lying about being Sam-Maybe he was Adam
Sam could have been the accountant. Adam could have been the laywer.
I loved this! It was not too difficult, but made me think for a few minutes. Good one!
Seemed too easy to me; I thought it must be a trick?
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