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I played a little logical game with my two highly intelligent godsons, Proddy and Addy. I had in mind three different digits chosen from 1 to 8 and I whispered the product of the three to Proddy and the sum of the three to Addy. I explained all this to them and our conversation then went as follows:
Me: 鈥淧roddy, can you now work out what my three numbers are?鈥�
Proddy: 鈥淣辞.鈥�
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Me: 鈥淣ow do you think that Addy will be able to work out what my numbers are?鈥�
Proddy: 鈥淣o, he will not be able to work them out.鈥�
Addy: 鈥淣ow I know what the numbers are!鈥�
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The winner Geoff Stone of North Bayswater, Victoria, Australia