Essence Original Riddle by Zimi Jun
(br)A valuable painting was stolen from a wealthy person's home. JC arrived at the scene at 12:00. According to Party J's estimation, the painting was stolen between 11:30 and 12:00. At 11:20, there had been a light snowfall, and at the scene, there was a trail of footprints leading from the wealthy person's home towards the road. (br) JC then questioned the servants in the wealthy person's home and found that there had been no visitors recently; all the servants were present in the house. (br) JC arrived at the scene at 12:00, and the earliest possible time the painting was stolen was 11:30. (br) The wealthy person then called detective A. Detective A inquired about the events and examined the trail of footprints: “The painting is hidden in this house!” (br) How did detective A conclude that the painting was inside the house?
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The 9th floor is already very close to the standard answer. (br) The servant left footprints on the scene in advance, then sprinkled salt, so that after it snowed, footprints would appear on the ground. (br) As mentioned on the 9th floor, these are all illusions created by the servant to make it seem like the suspect fled with the painting, with the purpose of confusing JC.
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It should be that the servant stole it. He walked on the snow to the road, leaving footprints, and then followed the footprints back, creating the illusion that the painting was transported out.
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The painting was stolen at 11:20, and it started snowing at 11:30. Unless an outsider hid in the wealthy person's house during those ten minutes and then took the painting away after it started snowing. Since Detective A said the painting was still in the house, then it might be as I said on the third floor, and in this way, it can also explain why all the servants are accounted for.
Since no one came to visit, it must be an inside thief. Fewer people in the house means the painting hasn't been taken out.
Understood, it's exactly the issue of the footprints. Who would deliberately wait until after it snows so that footprints could be left at the scene? The person who really wanted to act would have moved the painting before 11:20, leaving no traces. Obviously, these footprints were deliberately faked to mislead and confuse JC's judgment. The saying 'there's no hiding three hundred taels of silver here' applies— the painting is inside the house.
Reply to 7th floor: Indeed, it was reversed... in that case, the situation of being stolen by outsiders does not apply.
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