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“I lost ten thousand dollars and still can’t understand how it happened,” blind violinist Archer Skeet told Dr. Meridit when two friends met at the musician’s library.
“Marta Skopez came in last night,” Skeet began. “Martha has a bottle of ale, and we started arguing about the mysteries of locked rooms.” And then I made this crazy bet. Then Marty went to the bar, put six ice cubes in a glass and gave it to me. And he took a bottle of ale and left the room. I locked the doors and windows from the inside, checked if there was only ice in the glass, and put it in a safe behind me. Then he turned off the light, sat down and waited. The bet was that for an hour Marty had to enter a locked dark room, open a safe, take a glass, remove ice, pour half a glass of ale, close the safe and leave the room, locking the door behind him. And all this so that I did not hear! Martha argued that he would do so. Before the alarm rang an hour later, I did not hear anything. Then I unlocked the door. Martha, whistling, waited in the hallway. I opened the safe. In the name of all holy things, the glass was half full of ale and only ale, I tried it! How did he do that?
“Without a doubt, like an experienced fraudster,” Meridit answered after a little thought. - Everything is in order with your ears, but not a single person could hear how ...
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