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The person telling the truth is: because: and consequently, the killer is:

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I took the practical approach and came up with a strategy that could be optimal (I have not tried to prove it). In the worst case scenario it takes: I made a drawing to show my strategy. The yellow squares are the rooms the police officer looks into that night, the black squares are rooms in which the thief logically cannot be.

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Partial currently:

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This is a very nice 2-dimensional variation of this question.

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Who tells the truth is: because

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The drink is: Because the other things are: Smooth dance: Ball sport: Country's Capital: Month: Which are:

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Solution: Why?

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I think the answer is because

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This answer's a little eccentric, but bear with me. (Warning: this answer would fit a lateral-thinking puzzle, but since it is not explicitly a non-lateral-thinking puzzle, just treat this as light-hearted entertainment.) There is no killer.

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I was going to post a different answer, only to realize it was the same as Magma's. So I had to find a new one:

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The person telling the truth is because Since there can only be one person telling the truth, and we know that is telling the truth, and is therefore the killer.

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As an alternate line of thinking: Therefore This means

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Therefore:

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As others have said, the person telling the truth is Here's another approach to figuring this out: From this we conclude (since we know there is only one truth-teller) that:

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This is probably not the minimum, but it is an improvement to the answer from @Sriotchilism O'Zaic: with the sizes In 9 parts: In 8 parts: In 7 parts: In 6 parts: In 5 parts: I used the $18$ pieces from the linked puzzle as my starting point and

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