A guy is in a prison cell that has two doors and a guard at each door. One door is the door to "Life" and the other door is the door to "Death". He is allowed to ask one question to one of the guards; however one of the guards always lies and the other guard always tells the truth. He can ask any question to only one guard and then make his decision which door to open and walk free.
Your job should you choose it is "What is the question?"
If you are here Joe go for it.
Let's call them Door A and Door B, with appropriate guards.
Question to Guard A: "Would Guard B say that Door A is the door to Life?"
If the answer is "no," then A is the door to Life. If the answer is "yes," then B is the door to Life. Because both guards are involved, the answer returned will be a lie.
This brings back fond memories of math and logic problems....
Let's call them Door A and Door B, with appropriate guards.
Question to Guard A: "Would Guard B say that Door A is the door to Life?"
If the answer is "no," then A is the door to Life. If the answer is "yes," then B is the door to Life. Because both guards are involved, the answer returned will be a lie.
This brings back fond memories of math and logic problems....
There is only one door to life so the answer has to be the same no matter which one you ask.
OK, here's one:
There are two hills, side by side, with a stream that runs between.
On top of one hill is a tiny house, in which a woman and her very young daughter live.
One day, the house caught on fire, so the mother grabbed her daughter's hand and they ran out the door. They ran down the hill, crossed the stream and ran to the top of the other hill.
While sitting safely on the hill, looking across at their burning house, the young daughter said, "Thank God the three of us made it out of there."
what's going on?
Conjoined twins?
Wise men are certain of it
Fools know it
Great heroes fear it
Cowards run from it
It is...
Nothing.
the daughter is pregnant.
Or the mother...
I say tapeworm.
Always the last part of a bird to leave the ground?
Shadow?
Or tapeworm again.
I'm wondering if the riddle with the hills and the river and the house on fire isn't supposed to be two mothers and two daughters as opposed to just a mother and her "young daughter".
If this were the case the obvious answer would be that the three people were grandmother/mother, mother/daughter and daughter/granddaughter.
Nah, she's just "very young," so she's still too stupid to count.
Or perhaps she has an "imaginary friend", or they picked up an urn containing the father's ashes, or they have a pet monkey....
Wise men are certain of it
Fools know it
Great heroes fear it
Cowards run from it
It is...
The truth?
Yep. It looks like it. If you let x be the number of face-up cards in pile 1 (which has 20 cards total), then pile 2 has x - 20 cards faced up, and pile 1 has x - 20 cards faced down. When you flip pile 1 over, then you get x - 20 face-up cards in both piles.
A decent attempt Seamaster!
Here is the solution:
I will label the coins 123456789ABCD.
1. 1234 v 5678
2a. Balanced in 1, we weigh 9AB vs 123 (known to be good).
3aa. Balanced in 2a, we weigh C vs 1.
3ab. Unbalanced 2a, we now know if the fake is light or heavy; weigh A vs B
I'm sure you can work out the logic, but should you have any questions, ask away and I will try to explain. I kept the solution text to a minimum to make it easier to follow.
Thanks,just couldn't figure out what to do when the first weighing was equal. Nice question that wasted(but I did have fun) 2 hours of mine :D
i'm not going to bother with an IQ test given by someone who would write, "There are 2 rooms across from to each other ."
go away.
It's a rheum -- you idiote...