i bet you get this wrong. or you cheat.

alix2.0

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this one doesnt take nearly as long...
You are lost in a forest. The forest is between two villages. In villageA live only liars, they always lie. In village B people always tell the truth. You want to go to village B. Then you see a man from village A or B. You can ask him only one question.
Which question will you ask him to know for sure where each village is ?
 
jerthunter

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Well if you knew the towns were in opposite directions you could ask how to get to the town they are not from. Based on that answer go in the opposite direction. The liar would tell you the wrong way (Granted this isn't fool proof since the liar could just give a random direction and still be lying, but I'll assume he gives the opposite of the truth). If the man told the truth he would point you in the direction of the liar's town and based on the assumption that they were in opposite directions the village with the truthful people would be in the opposite direction.
Hmm, maybe this makes sense...
 
alix2.0

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Originally Posted by Jerthunter
Well if you knew the towns were in opposite directions you could ask how to get to the town they are not from. Based on that answer go in the opposite direction. The liar would tell you the wrong way (Granted this isn't fool proof since the liar could just give a random direction and still be lying, but I'll assume he gives the opposite of the truth). If the man told the truth he would point you in the direction of the liar's town and based on the assumption that they were in opposite directions the village with the truthful people would be in the opposite direction.
Hmm, maybe this makes sense...
theres an easier way... um... but i guess this might work...
 
jerthunter

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Originally Posted by alix2.0
theres an easier way... um... but i guess this might work...
I'm sure there is, but an easy way isn't much fun. Atleast that is my excuse..
 
kjr_trig

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Very interesting Alex....I didn't cheat and found 3
, just for fun, I went and got my wife, she counted 6...For the record, my wife has an I.Q. of 170 (not kidding, Nephrologist, thats a Kidney Doctor if you didn't know), me...I can hit a golf ball really really far.
I doubt everyone that found 6 is a genius (no offense), but it worked at my house
 
ruaround

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given that the liar is from A and the honest man is from B just ask him which village he is from... they will both point to B...
 
nietzsche

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id just ask if i could follow him/her back to the village? i dunno why it would matter if theres liars in one and people who tell the truth. if youre lost id follow either of them back. kind of like if you havent eaten in a long time why would you care if your food came from burger king or mcdonalds if your life depended on it? lol i dunno
 
dnraiders

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Originally Posted by alix2.0
this one doesnt take nearly as long...
You are lost in a forest. The forest is between two villages. In villageA live only liars, they always lie. In village B people always tell the truth. You want to go to village B. Then you see a man from village A or B. You can ask him only one question.
Which question will you ask him to know for sure where each village is ?

where is your village?
wait hes gonna lie about his viilage so when he does he will lie about the direction soo you would go the way he said. im confused
 
1journeyman

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You ask the villager which village the other villager would tell you to go too. Then you go to the opposite village.
That's all I can come up with.... That way the lie always negates the truth. Once you establish that you go in the opposite direction.
 
earlybird

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This one's kind of old.
Three men decided to split the cost of a hotel room. The hotel manager gave them a price of $30. The men split the bill evenly, each paying $10, and retired to their room.
However, the manager realized that it was a Wednesday night, which meant the hotel had a special: rooms were only $25. He had overcharged them $5!
He promptly called the bellboy, gave him five one-dollar bills and told him to return it to the men. When the bellboy explained the situation to the men, they were so pleased at the honesty of the establishment that they promptly tipped the bellboy $2 of the $5 he had returned and each kept $1 for himself.
The Problem: Each of the three men ended up paying $9 (their original $10, minus $1 back) totalling $27, plus $2 for the bellboy makes $29. Where did the extra dollar go?
 
agent-x

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Originally Posted by earlybird
Okay look really hard... there's actually 3 cobia in this picture.

I can't find em.
 
agent-x

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Originally Posted by earlybird
This one's kind of old.
Three men decided to split the cost of a hotel room. The hotel manager gave them a price of $30. The men split the bill evenly, each paying $10, and retired to their room.
However, the manager realized that it was a Wednesday night, which meant the hotel had a special: rooms were only $25. He had overcharged them $5!
He promptly called the bellboy, gave him five one-dollar bills and told him to return it to the men. When the bellboy explained the situation to the men, they were so pleased at the honesty of the establishment that they promptly tipped the bellboy $2 of the $5 he had returned and each kept $1 for himself.
The Problem: Each of the three men ended up paying $9 (their original $10, minus $1 back) totalling $27, plus $2 for the bellboy makes $29. Where did the extra dollar go?
There is no extra dollar. You have to subtract the $2 tip to the bellboy making the total they paid $25. So the $25 is in the till., $2 is with the bellboy and each man has $1 making the total $30.
 
ruaround

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Originally Posted by AGENT-X
There is no extra dollar. You have to subtract the $2 tip to the bellboy making the total they paid $25. So the $25 is in the till., $2 is with the bellboy and each man has $1 making the total $30.
its easy to get stuck on the $27 and the fact that each person paid $9... well they did pay $27, but $25 was to the hotel and $2 was to the bell hop leaving the $3 they got back... or reverse it... hotel kept $25 + $3 they got back = $28 + $2 the bellhop got = $30...
check this thread... people actually argued about this...
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/260223/are-you-smarter-than-a-5th-grader
 
alix2.0

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ok, i just woke up, but here are the answers.
the german has the zebra, took all night for me to figure that out.

to find where the villages are, you ask which village he is from. he will always point to village b.
 
alix2.0

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A butcher goes to the market with $100 cash. He has to buy exactly 100 animals. There are cows, geese and chicken for sale.A cow costs $15, a goose is $1 and a chicken costs $0.25. He has to buy at least one of each animal and has to spend all his money.
What does the butcher buy?
 
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