EPThere's another one: an explorer in the jungle gets caught by a tribe of natives. according to their custom they have to execute any foreigner caught trespassing in their area. the custom dictates they will allow the condemned to make one final statement: if the statement is true, he will be executed by being thrown off a cliff, if false he will be executed by being eaten by lions. with what statement does the clever explorer avoid being executed?
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Famouzze
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here's another one: an explorer in the jungle gets caught by a tribe of natives. according to their custom they have to execute any foreigner caught trespassing in their area. the custom dictates they will allow the condemned to make one final statement: if the statement is true, he will be executed by being thrown off a cliff, if false he will be executed by being eaten by lions. with what statement does the clever explorer avoid being executed? | ||
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seeyoulater
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Famouzze
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travis the idea is that either way the natives will have broken their custom, and that they will not do. because if he is eaten by lions it is true and he shouldve been thrown off a cliff, and the other way around. here's one more: what gets wetter as it dries? | ||
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seeyoulater
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On November 21 2004 20:32 Famouzze wrote: fuck these are too easy, or u guys are too smart!! lol travis the idea is that either way the natives will have broken their custom, and that they will not do. because if he is eaten by lions it is true and he shouldve been thrown off a cliff, and the other way around. here's one more: what gets wetter as it dries? yeah but he will still have been killed regardless of it breaking their custom so it doesn't help him. a towel. | ||
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baal
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On November 21 2004 20:24 LTT wrote: I don't want to go through the calculations, but it's obviously based on the time delay. Like for the monk puzzle, assuming the monks are smart, say that there are 5 monks 3 of which have red eyes. So each monk with red eyes sees two other monks with red eyes. After two midnights of no suicides, all three monks will commit suicide. they dont know how many have red eyes -_- duh! | ||
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gg_hertzz
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pooper-scooper
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On November 21 2004 20:33 travis wrote: yeah but he will still have been killed regardless of it breaking their custom so it doesn't help him. a towel. Which is also required to flag down interstellar space ships | ||
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Bull-Demon
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It's just a dumb question. | ||
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seeyoulater
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On November 21 2004 20:36 baal wrote: they dont know how many have red eyes -_- duh! The tourist says at least one of you has red eyes. The 1 guy that has red eyes will look around, see everyone else's brown eyes, and kill himself. If there are 2, one of the people with red eyes will see the other guy with red eyes and assume that he can come up with the same reasoning above to kill himself the first night. If he didn't kill himself, that means he has red eyes as well. So on to infinity. | ||
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Pacifist
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Famouzze
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Let's say you're friends with a woman, and you know she has two children, but you don't know the gender of either child. Then one day you go over to her house and a girl answers the door and says my mom will be right down. So you now know one of her children is a girl, what are the chances that the other child is a boy? | ||
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rpf289
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gg_hertzz
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either a girl or a boy. | ||
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Famouzze
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