動動腦 -推理系列-小偷篇

一艘日本船剛駛離港口航向公海, 船長著手準備去幫一些機械設備上油, 為了避免手上戴的戒指弄髒受損, 他把戒指拔下來放在他床舖旁的桌子上. 當他完成工作回到房間時,發現戒指不見了. 他懷疑有三個人可能是竊賊, 於是把三人叫過來問他們, 過去十分鐘(船長不在的時候)他們在做什麼事.

廚師說他在廚房準備晚餐.

技師說他在引擎室查看機械是否都運作正常.

一級水手說他在甲板上換桅杆的旗子, 因為有人把旗子掛反了.

船長馬上抓出竊賊. 你知道為什麼嗎?

A Japanese ship was leaving the port and on its way to open sea. The captain went to go oil some parts of the ship and took his ring off so it wouldn’t get damaged. He left it on the table next to his bunk. When he returned, it was missing. He had suspected three crew members could be guilty and asked them what they had been doing for the ten minutes that he had been gone.

The cook said, “I was in the kitchen preparing tonight’s dinner.”

The engineer said, “I was working in the engine room making sure everything was running smoothly.”

The seaman said, “I was on the mast correcting the flag because someone had attached it upside down by mistake.”

The captain immediately knew who it was. How?

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答案:

小偷是一級水手. 

因為是日本船, 所以掛的是日本國旗, 日本國旗是白布中間有一個紅圈, 不會被掛反.

It was clearly the seaman. It was a Japanese ship and a Japanese flag is white with a single red dot in the middle. It can’t be hung upside down.