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Puzzle #246: Can you work out how many delegates speak one language?

Can you solve this week’s logic puzzle, Monoglots? Plus the answer to puzzle #245

1 November 2023

#246 Monoglots

Set by Daniel Griller

At an international conference of the utmost import, there are 1000 delegates present. Rarely has such a linguistically talented company assembled: half speak English, half French, half Greek, half Mandarin and half Hindi.

I hate these conferences. It’s all double-talk and snobbery over canapés. Worst of all, I am fluent in nothing but English.

I would do well to seek out the other poor souls whose linguistic capabilities are similarly capped at one. Not that I could talk to all of them, obviously. But I would understand their plight.

Perhaps it’s just me.…

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