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Breanne Sawyer
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Say you are stuck in a room with two doors, one leads to the exit and one leads to certain death. Unfortunately, you dont know which is which. However, there are two other people in the room as well. One of these people always tells the truth and one always tells a lie. Unfortunately, you dont know which is which of these either. You are allowed to only ask one of the people one question in order to get out of the room. How do you get out of the room?
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Re: Stuck in a room with two people
« Reply #1 on: Nov 28th, 2003, 10:38pm » |
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1) This is Easy.
2) It, as well as sundry variants, has already been posted.
For example, see the thread entitled Fork in the Road.
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Re: Stuck in a room with two people
« Reply #2 on: Nov 29th, 2003, 7:39am » |
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More usefully, try looking in the Hard forum at threads: Fork in the road I etc.
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Re: Stuck in a room with two people
« Reply #3 on: Jan 18th, 2005, 12:05pm » |
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That's easy->
heres what U need to ask to anyone of the two->
Which door will the other person point out to, as the door to death...
What ever the answer is...
Walk out of the other door which is not pointed out.
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Re: Stuck in a room with two people
« Reply #4 on: Jan 20th, 2005, 4:40pm » |
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thats easy all you have to do is open each door then move out of the way, killing the thruth/lie dude and then either walk through the door if it doesnt kill him or walk through the other door if it does. 
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Re: Stuck in a room with two people
« Reply #5 on: Jan 20th, 2005, 4:42pm » |
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Re: Stuck in a room with two people
« Reply #6 on: Jan 20th, 2005, 7:08pm » |
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on Jan 20th, 2005, 4:42pm, Bon BON wrote:
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Re: Stuck in a room with two people
« Reply #7 on: Jan 21st, 2005, 8:34am » |
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on Jan 20th, 2005, 4:40pm, Bon BON wrote:| thats easy all you have to do is open each door then move out of the way, killing the thruth/lie dude and then either walk through the door if it doesnt kill him or walk through the other door if it does. |
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It only says the door leads to certain death, not that opening the door kills anyone in front of it. Maybe both doors lead to elevators, one of which goes safely to the exit, and the other drops you into a volcano. In that case, even forcing the guy through the door, closing it and reopening it wouldn't help much - you'd just see the same featureless box as before in both instances.
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Re: Stuck in a room with two people
« Reply #8 on: Jan 22nd, 2005, 9:32am » |
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Yes, very like the 'fork in the road', but as worded, the question does not imply whether the other two occupants of the room are aware of which door is which.
Should the question you ask also try to check whether the answerer is in possession of this information?
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