Article 38GME Did you solve it? This apple teaser is hard core!

Did you solve it? This apple teaser is hard core!

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Alex Bellos
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The solution to today's puzzle

On my puzzle blog earlier today I set you the following puzzle:

You and your two friends Pip and Blossom are captured by an evil gang of logicians. In order to gain your freedom, the gang's chief, Kurt, sets you this fearsome challenge. The three of you are put in adjacent cells. In each cell is a quantity of apples. Each of you can count the number of apples in your own cell, but not in anyone else's. You are told that each cell has at least one apple, and at most nine apples, and no two cells have the same number of apples.

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