FILE No.26Unsolved
The teacher brought a popular shop’s limited-edition tart to the Class 3-2 classroom. It was topped with plenty of peaches. The teacher took a photo of the cut tart, pinned it to the blackboard, and set the shop’s card beside it. The card is written in English cursive that nobody in the class can read.
Afterward, only one of Torii, Nomura and Yagi ate the tart. The other two only looked at the pinned photo. When the teacher asked all three, "What was the tart like?", they answered as follows. None of them lied.
Torii: "It had lots of peaches on top, and a brown tart underneath."
Nomura: "There were the same peaches inside as on top."
Yagi: "There was fruit like peach inside too, but when I ate it, the taste and texture were different from the peaches on top. I don’t know what fruit it was."
Who actually ate the tart?
If you get stuck, open the hints one at a time, in order.
Separate what a photo shows from what it does not.
Which account sticks to what appears in the photo?
Do taste and texture show up in a photo?
Who actually ate the tart?
Choose the answer closest to the truth.
Yagi
The answer is “Yagi.”
From the photo you can tell that peaches are lined up on top, that there is brown crust below, and that something fruit-like is inside. Torii’s account could be given from the photo alone. Nomura’s “the same peaches inside as on top” is also something you could assume from how it looks. Only Yagi says the taste and texture differ from the peaches on top. Taste and texture cannot be known without eating, so someone who only saw the photo could not say that. Since none of the three lied, Yagi is the one who ate it.
All three talk about peaches, so they sound alike. You miss “taste and texture,” which no photo can show.
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