Four perfect logicians, who all knew each other from being members of the Perfect Logician's Club, sat around a table
that had a dish with 11 apples in it. The chat was intense, and they ended up eating all of the apples. Everybody had at
least one apple, and everyone knew that fact, and each
logician knew the number of apples that he ate. They didn't know how many apples each of the other ate, though.
They agreed to ask only questions that they didn't know the answers to.
Alonso: Did you eat more apples that I did, Bertrand?
Bertrand: I don't know. Did you, George, eat more apples than I did?
George: I don't know.
Kurt: Aha!!
Kurt figured out how many apples each person ate. Can you do the same?
I agree with TomM's answer (sorry about the fubar logic and the invalid post before, I'm new here).
The only information that can be gleaned from the given conversation is that Bertrand had at least 2 and George had at least 3, and none of the questioners had more than 4. The only way for Kurt to derive the answer is if he had eaten 5, leaving 1 for Alphonse, 2 for Bertrand, and 3 for George.
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