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You meet three friends: Alex, Bernie and Carol. Alex asked Bernie “Are you the kind who could ask Carol whether she is the kind who could ask you whether you two are of different kinds?".
You might realise that it is only possible to deduce the kind of one of the three friends. Which one and are they a Crick or a Goop?

You meet an alien (either a Crick or a Goop) called Charlie. He asks you “Are the wizard and I the same kind?"
Who is the wizard?

Label the vertices of a cube with the numbers \(1,2,3,\dots,8\) so that the sum of the labels of the four vertices of each of the six faces is the same.