my riddle (only for smart people), if you don´t enter.........

[NickRock]

The Tale of Two Villages
You are lost in a forest. The forest is between two villages. In village A 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 village B is ? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[chezlaw]

ask him what the other will say then do the opposite.

chez

[Silent A]

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ask him what the other will say then do the opposite.

chez

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ditto

this is an old one

[tolbiny]

Crush you enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.

Sorry what was the question?

[slickpoppa]

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ask him what the other will say then do the opposite.

chez

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I think you are getting at the right answer, but a good answer to this question depends on exactly how you word the question. Asking him what the other would do is problematic because a liar can only technically lie about things which he has personal knowledge. Since the liar does not know where the non-liar would tell him to go, how would the liar respond to where the non-liar would tell him to go?

Therefore, I think you need to add something before the question to inform the liar of what a non-liar would say.

So I would say "Excuse me, there are two villages, A and B. I am looking for directions to village A, where people only tell the truth. I know that you are from either village A or village B, and that if you were from village A, you would tell me the truth, and if you were from village B, you would lie to me. So, where would a person from the village that you are not from tell me to go?"

Kind of nitpicky, but I think its necessary.

[diebitter]

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The Tale of Two Villages
You are lost in a forest. The forest is between two villages. In village A 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 village B is ? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Can't you just kill em all and let god sort it out?

[BruceZ]

Which way to your village?

[hmkpoker]

Hey dude, which villiage did you come from?

*EDIT* Hey dude, which OF THOSE TWO *point point* villiages did you come from? (That way I'm covered if the liar makes up a villiage in some arbitrary location and points it out [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img])

[slickpoppa]

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Which way to your village?

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Lol, I guess that works too

[chezlaw]

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ask him what the other will say then do the opposite.

chez

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I think you are getting at the right answer, but a good answer to this question depends on exactly how you word the question. Asking him what the other would do is problematic because a liar can only technically lie about things which he has personal knowledge. Since the liar does not know where the non-liar would tell him to go, how would the liar respond to where the non-liar would tell him to go?

Therefore, I think you need to add something before the question to inform the liar of what a non-liar would say.

So I would say "Excuse me, there are two villages, A and B. I am looking for directions to village A, where people only tell the truth. I know that you are from either village A or village B, and that if you were from village A, you would tell me the truth, and if you were from village B, you would lie to me. So, where would a person from the village that you are not from tell me to go?"

Kind of nitpicky, but I think its necessary.

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Most glorious nitpick of all time [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]