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This is a peculiar game, being both abnormally easy and abnormally tricky. The deductions are quite simple, once the set-up is figured out. The problem is that the "skin" of this game is intentionally obfuscatory: who is actually speaking in any given slot turns out to be a red herring. If this is not clear from the clues, we should skim the answer choices and notice that they never refer to the speakers other than by their number. If they don't care who they are, then neither do we.