Match the print

Fingerprint A was found on several objects at the scene

of a robbery. Below are the fingerprints of six suspects

who the police think may have been involved.

Which of the six fingerprints matches A?

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There was the convict who had never been to prison before. And at his first meal, when they were eating together, one of the other convicts suddenly got up and shouted ‘twenty-four!’ All the other convicts roared with laughter.

So the new convict asked his neighbour what was so funny. ‘Oh’, said the neighbour, ‘you see, we’ve all been here so long that we know all each other’s jokes. So instead of telling them we give them all numbers’.

So at the next meal the new convict decided to tell a joke himself. He felt terribly nervous but finally he gathered up his courage, stood up and said in a very low voice ‘twenty-eight’. But there was no reaction at all. He sat down in complete silence, red in face. After a bit, he asked his neighbour what was wrong with joke twenty-eight. ‘Nothing’, said his neighbour. ‘It’s a veiy good joke. But you know, it depends on the way you tell the story’.

So at the next meal the new convict decided to make them laugh. He stood up and in a firm voice shouted out ‘two hundred and forty- four! ’ Immediately, eveiyone was convulsed with laughter. They rolled in the aisles.

When the laughter died down, the new convict turned to his neighbour, ‘That was all right, wasn’t it?’ he said. ‘Oh, yes, you couldn’t have been better. And what’s more, we had never heard that one before’.

* * *

A dangerous criminal had escaped, so the police issued the usual photographs: left profile, front view, and right profile. A few days later they received the following telegram from an Irish detective: ‘Have captured the fellow on the left, and the fellow in the middle, and I’m going soon to get the fellow on the right as well’.

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