MadBaz Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 I get one of these every fortnight in my inbox from a supplier www.cclonline.com, this one took me a while though, see if anyone else can figure it out. You approach two doors that have the ability to talk. One door leads to paradise and the other door leads to hell, you don't know which door is which. The door to paradise always tells the truth and the door to hell always lies. You want to get to paradise and you are allowed to ask only one question. What question should you ask to determine which door leads to paradise? Considering that these doors don Quote
NikpV Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 (edited) I get one of these every fortnight in my inbox from a supplier www.cclonline.com, this one took me a while though, see if anyone else can figure it out. You approach two doors that have the ability to talk. One door leads to paradise and the other door leads to hell, you don't know which door is which. The door to paradise always tells the truth and the door to hell always lies. You want to get to paradise and you are allowed to ask only one question. What question should you ask to determine which door leads to paradise? Considering that these doors don?t have eyes and are not psychic, please think about this one ;) pick a door and ask 'if I asked the other door if it led to paradise what would it say' 1) If asked the lying door, the other door would have said yes and the lying door would have reported no so you go through the other door 2) If I asked the truful what the other would have said - lying door to hell would say yes and so the truthfull door would report yes and so you go throigh that door so ask the question if answer is yes go through that door if no go through other door my mother made me do 'progress papers whrn I was a kid - full of these problems Edited March 15, 2007 by NikpV Quote
MadBaz Posted March 15, 2007 Author Report Posted March 15, 2007 Considering that these doors don?t have eyes and are not psychic, please think about this one ;) pick a door and ask 'if I asked the other door if it led to paradise what would it say' 1) If asked the lying door, the other door would have said yes and the lying door would have reported no so you go through the other door 2) If I asked the truful what the other would have said - lying door to hell would say yes and so the truthfull door would report yes and so you go throigh that door so ask the question if answer is yes go through that door if no go through other door my mother made me do 'progress papers whrn I was a kid - full of these problems Sorry Nik, I think the point is they're not psychic, I know what your saying though.Your thinking needs to be more basic.... Quote
gregers Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 how about asking the door(s)to open? Quote
Darklord Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 surely ask one of the doors if it is a blamanche if the reply is yes it goes to hell if the answer is is no its heaven all the way Quote
steve67car Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 ask them are you a door the paradise one will say yes the door to hell will say no ;) Quote
MadBaz Posted March 15, 2007 Author Report Posted March 15, 2007 Along the right lines, but not being able to see I'm not sure if they'd know they were blancmanges. The clue is in the first sentence... Quote
Darklord Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 Along the right lines, but not being able to see I'm not sure if they'd know they were blancmanges. The clue is in the first sentence...ask one of the doors if it can see Quote
MadBaz Posted March 15, 2007 Author Report Posted March 15, 2007 Almost right Darklord, but I think the answer is ask either door if it can speak, if it says no......... Heres another one, this one beat me, Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One father said, that is enough for all of us, we will have one each. How can this be possible? Quote
adrianf. Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 Almost right Darklord, but I think the answer is ask either door if it can speak, if it says no......... Heres another one, this one beat me, Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One father said, that is enough for all of us, we will have one each. How can this be possible?Three generations of the same family Quote
MadBaz Posted March 16, 2007 Author Report Posted March 16, 2007 Adrianf gets a pat on the back, they are of course Grandfather, Father and Son. Quote
Smilge Posted March 16, 2007 Report Posted March 16, 2007 my mother made me do 'progress papers whrn I was a kid - full of these problems Not much progress there then Nik ......... 2/10 for spelling!!! :D Quote
NikpV Posted March 16, 2007 Report Posted March 16, 2007 my mother made me do 'progress papers whrn I was a kid - full of these problems Not much progress there then Nik ......... 2/10 for spelling!!! :D bit short of work then Bleeno :P Quote
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