Can You Solve This Riddle?

[ReddGirl]

New Riddle: (to keep the peace)

Two men on an island one of them deaf and mute and other blind.  The deaf and mute want to tell the blind your father dead. How?
Remember: The deaf is also mute (he can't talk)

[sjonathan02]

New Riddle: (to keep the peace)

Two men on an island one of them deaf and mute and other blind.  The deaf and mute want to tell the blind your father dead. How?
Remember: The deaf is also mute (he can't talk)

The deaf mute writes a note in the sand/dirt and has the blind man feel the letters (or follow the shapes).


BTW, to my knowledge, there's no discord for which peace would need to be kept. 

[Fenix]

OK i have been looking at this argument and Sjon's way is EASIER.

Since you know that one lies and the other tells the truth, you ask

Are you twins? The answer identifi3es immediately who the liar is. The truth-teller tells you that they are. Therefore you know the other one is a liar and you ignore him. On the flipside, if you ask the liar if they are twins, he will obviously say no. In that case you will also ignore him as he has identified himself as the liar.

Doubles' way is no less wrong. But its a roundabout way of getting to the same answer.

[Fenix]

Oh we moved on?

Never mind...

[Doubles22]

Since, it's just me and you in this: You HAVE to get rid of the first sentence. Until you do that, we'll keep going round and round.

You ONLY know:

a. They're twins
b. One lies and one tells the truth.
c. Each twin knows which door they're guarding.

THAT'S. IT.


Anything else, and one is trying to make their argument based on something that's NOT in the original scenario.

That's all I'm saying. 

I see what you're saying.  Try it this way...



Let's say that we haveTwin A and Twin B.  We'll assume we don't know who's the liar or what door they are guarding. 

Here's the coversation.

Doubles: "Say, Twin A, if I go ask your boy over there which one of these doors leads to heaven, which one will he say is the Heaven door?"

Twin A: "He'll tell you that my door is the Heaven door.

1. If he's the lying twin, he's lying about what Twin B would say because Twin B would tell the truth and say his own door was the Heaven door. 
2. If he's the truthful twin, he's truthfully stating that Twin B will lie by saying that his own door is the Heaven door. 

Therefore, which ever door is stated, go to the opposite door.

[sjonathan02]

I see what you're saying.  Try it this way...



Let's say that we haveTwin A and Twin B.  We'll assume we don't know who's the liar or what door they are guarding. 

Here's the coversation.

Doubles: "Say, Twin A, if I go ask your boy over there which one of these doors leads to heaven, which one will he say is the Heaven door?"

Twin A: "He'll tell you that my door is the Heaven door.

1. If he's the lying twin, he's lying about what Twin B would say because Twin B would tell the truth and say his own door was the Heaven door. 
2. If he's the truthful twin, he's truthfully stating that Twin B will lie by saying that his own door is the Heaven door. 

Therefore, which ever door is stated, go to the opposite door.

Doing it that way doesn't tell me who the liar is, chief. 

I'll let that marinate as I drive home. See ya'll in about 20 min.

[ReddGirl]

The deaf mute writes a note in the sand/dirt and has the blind man feel the letters (or follow the shapes).


BTW, to my knowledge, there's no discord for which peace would need to be kept. 

I don't see any discord. Was joking : )

Your answer is incorrect sir!

[nessalynn77]

*out of sheer frustration, Ness gives up in disgust and walks through door three, Jesus is there waiting, saying, "I was wondering how long you would be out there fooling with those twins"*

LOL

[Doubles22]

Doing it that way doesn't tell me who the liar is, chief. 

I'll let that marinate as I drive home. See ya'll in about 20 min.

I'm not trying to find out who the liar is.  I'm trying to find out which is the correct door to go through.

Time Out!  Redd, what's the object here?

[ReddGirl]

*out of sheer frustration, Ness gives up in disgust and walks through door three, Jesus is there waiting, saying, "I was wondering how long you would be out there fooling with those twins"*

LOL

LOL!

[ReddGirl]

I'm not trying to find out who the liar is.  I'm trying to find out which is the correct door to go through.

Time Out!  Redd, what's the object here?

LOL! You are trying to find how who is the liar. Once you have that established then it is easy to know who to trust about the door selection.

[DBG2k5]

Here's a classic:

You're locked in a room.  The ONLY things you have is a mirror and a table to escape.  How do you do it?

[ReddGirl]

Here's a classic:

You're locked in a room.  The ONLY things you have is a mirror and a table to escape.  How do you do it?

Sorry this is a classic.  You look into the mirror to see what you "saw". You saw the table into 2 halves. Put the halves together to make a whole (hole). Climb out of the hole to escape.

[sjonathan02]

*out of sheer frustration, Ness gives up in disgust and walks through door three, Jesus is there waiting, saying, "I was wondering how long you would be out there fooling with those twins"*

LOL

 

[ReddGirl]

No more takers on my riddle?? 

[sjonathan02]

I'm not trying to find out who the liar is.  I'm trying to find out which is the correct door to go through.

Time Out!  Redd, what's the object here?

She was kidding. 

LOL! You are trying to find how who is the liar. Once you have that established then it is easy to know who to trust about the door selection.

*sounding like Emeril*


BAM!!! What she said.

No more takers on my riddle?? 

I just found out my answer is wrong, so give me a minute or two. Plus, I need some refreshment from this heat. 

[Doubles22]

LOL! You are trying to find how who is the liar. Once you have that established then it is easy to know who to trust about the door selection.

Then no need even worrying about the doors if that's the only objective.

Ask each one if they're twins.  Whoever says "no" is the liar.  Game over and walk away.

[lordluvr]

That's correct.

Here's one more easy one:

Sally's mother had four children. Their names were Penny, Nickel, Dime...but what was the fourth child's name?

Did someone answer this?  If not, the answer is Sally.

[Fenix]

Did someone answer this?  If not, the answer is Sally.

Yep

Sally.

[lordluvr]

Oh well, that's what I get for being late to the party.