Three boxes are labeled 'Apples', 'Oranges', and 'Apples and Oranges', but all three labels are currently placed incorrectly on the wrong boxes. You are allowed to draw exactly one piece of fruit from only one box to fix all the labels. Which box do you choose?
The box labeled 'Apples and Oranges'
Since all labels are wrong, the box labeled 'Apples and Oranges' cannot actually contain both. Therefore, whatever fruit you pull from it must be the sole contents of that box. Once you know what is inside that box, you can deduce the rest.
About this riddle
Logic riddles give you a few facts and ask what must be true. List what you know, cross out what cannot be, and see what is left.
Difficulty: Hard. More like this: Logic riddles with answers or try Einstein's Logic Grid for a different kind of puzzle.
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