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#1
08-06-2005, 04:14 PM
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Riddle
You come to a T intersection with the knowledge that one way will take you to a village of nothing but liars and the other will take you to a village of nothing but people who tell the truth, and you will meet a representative from each village at the intersection. You are allowed to ask only one question to the both of them at the same time in order to determine which way goes where. You do not know which person is from which village, only that one comes from each place. What one question do you ask to determine the way you want to go?
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#2
08-06-2005, 04:19 PM
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Ask each one what the other would say about a particular path. Whatever they say is must contain a lie (that of the person speaking or the other person) and is therefore incorrect.
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Brain-Trainers--Work those lobes, flex those synapses! "Side? I'm on nobody's side, because nobody's on my side, little orc."--Treebeard
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#3
08-06-2005, 04:22 PM
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You can only ask one question...the same question, and even if you did that you still would not be able to tell which one is lying or not so you still don't know which way is which.
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#4
08-06-2005, 04:29 PM
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For the record, I think, "Would the other one say this road goes to the village of truth-tellers?" is a single question that applies to both, and it would tell you which road leads where, even if it doesn't tell you who was lying.
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Brain-Trainers--Work those lobes, flex those synapses! "Side? I'm on nobody's side, because nobody's on my side, little orc."--Treebeard
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#5
08-06-2005, 04:31 PM
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#6
08-06-2005, 04:33 PM
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ROTFL!!
"Which road did you come down to get here?"
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Brain-Trainers--Work those lobes, flex those synapses! "Side? I'm on nobody's side, because nobody's on my side, little orc."--Treebeard Last edited by DeepShadow; 08-06-2005 at 04:35 PM. Reason: Must be more specific!
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08-06-2005, 04:34 PM
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Quote:
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My life is an open book; if you don't like the read, put me back on the shelf ....................
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#8
08-06-2005, 04:36 PM
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Thanks, I changed my original because I realized that they could both just tell me without pointing. Now it requires them to indicate a road, which must be the road to the truth-tellers.
Thanks for the encouragement, Michel!
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Brain-Trainers--Work those lobes, flex those synapses! "Side? I'm on nobody's side, because nobody's on my side, little orc."--Treebeard
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#9
08-06-2005, 04:39 PM
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that could work, if you want to take it to the Labyrinth type answer, but some people can't figure out that one still...no matter how many times they have seen the movie, which I think is funny. So, I was trying to keep this one simpler. The simplest answer is to just ask them both to point towards the village they came from. They'd both point the same way...the village of truth-tellers.
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08-06-2005, 04:40 PM
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