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Four of a Kind

You arrive at the sprawling Akihabara Mall for your planned meetup with your friend, but the moment you enter the atrium, your stomach drops. Standing at different points throughout the crowded shopping center are four women who look unsettlingly similar—same hair color, similar builds, comparable styling. One of them is definitely your friend, the others are not. As you stand frozen by the entrance, watching them browse different stores and move through the crowd, you realize your friend hasn't texted you a specific meeting location, and the mall is beginning to fill with more people. You have maybe twenty minutes before the afternoon rush makes finding anyone nearly impossible. One woman is standing near the cosmetics counter. Another is browsing a bookstore. A third sits on a bench sipping coffee. The fourth moves deeper into the crowd toward the electronics section. Your phone has one bar of signal. Time is slipping away.

Which one is really your friend?