Enigma
By anoyzz
@anoyzz (32)
Portugal
January 16, 2007 1:51pm CST
Here i give you all an enigma a friend told me and asked to solve it. I took some time to resolve it, but the answer is quite intelligent.
Well, a guy starving to death enters a room, where there are two twin brothers, and a table with two similar baskets with food on it, one poisoned and the other not. One of the brothers always lies, and the other always speaks the truth. You don't know witch one is witch, and you don't know witch basket is poisoned. The question is: doing ONLY one question to ONLY one of the brothers, how would you determine witch basket can you eat from ?
Don't cheat using google ! Think a little :P
I'll give the answer if no one resolves it.
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3 responses
@Pablovs (2)
• Portugal
17 Jan 07
Hmm, that's quite an enigma! The problem is the one question limit! It must be something that envolves asking both something, but beeing actually only asking to one, am i on the right way ? The question he does, has to be an yes/no question?
@dopey22girl (3319)
• United States
9 Apr 07
Ok, I am going to do this without looking at the reponses previous to mine, as I just did with the last one I just did. Let's see...this is a really tricky one! At first, I would've said ask, "Are you the liar?" But obviously that wouldn't work because the liar could just say no. Hmm this is really difficult! Ooh..an answer just occured to me! Maybe ask them, what is 2 plus 2. Since the one brother always lies, he wouldn't answer 4, and then you would know. Am I right?
