Riddles

Post a riddle or answer this one!


My riddle:


There are three doors: two doors lead to death, one door leads to safety.

The three doors are guarded by three men. One will always lie, one always tells the truth, and one will tell the truth sometimes. You have no idea which man guards which door.

You can ask only one question.

What is your question?

Ah..

I am used to the normal batch of global players.

I'll find another one.

Lol I can't get my head round that first one even when I know the answer.

EDIT:

So you are the 'sometimes' guy and you are standing infront of the safe door.

Person walks up to you and says "if I were to ask you if this was the safe door, would you say 'yes'?"

Now if you were currently telling the truth you would say 'yes'. But ONLY if you knew that if the same person came back to you later and asked "if this the right door?" that you would say yes. If you knew you were going to lie later you would say 'no' to the initial question. If you didn't know if you might lie or tell the truth later you would have to say you didn't know.

If you were currently lying you would say 'yes'. But ONLY if you knew that if the same person came back to you later and asked "if this the right door?" that you would say no. If you knew you were going to tell the truth later you would say 'no' to the initial question. If you didn't know if you might lie or tell the truth later you have to randomly pick either yes or no (but not say you didn't know cos that'd be the truth).

Basically... I reckon Kelis answer above gives a good solution if there are only two doors and 2 men and no 'sometimes' guy. The sometimes guy messes things up and it is impossible to say whether he is standing infront of the safe or death door unless you get more information about the problem (like: "the 'sometimes' guy sometimes lies and sometimes tells the truth, but he is consistent for 2 questions at a time from 1 person)

Then you could change your question to "If the next question I ask you is 'is this the safe door' would you say 'yes'?"

SOLVED (kinda) :D


Edited by Createure - 08 Jun 2011 at 03:49

Beer! (or alcohol in general)

The third riddle:

Who killed one-fourth of mankind?