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Posted at: 6/26/09 07:41 PM

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on your way to the market, or Arcade, or Disco, or whatever. i don't fucking know what you do with your spare time.

you come to a fork in the road, and there're two people both on the different roads.

one is believed to only tell the truth.

the other can only lie.

you are allowed to ask them three questions.

the first one you ask them is "which way leads to the whatever?"

the first one says "this way"

the other says "nope, this way."

than you proceed to ask "are you both liars?"

one answers "no."

the other answers "no."

what can you tell about them from the second answer, and what question can you ask to find the way to the whatever?

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suck their cocks

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At 6/26/09 07:42 PM, H-h-h-heliopios wrote: suck their cocks

seconded.

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At 6/26/09 07:41 PM, homor wrote: what can you tell about them from the second answer, and what question can you ask to find the way to the whatever?

Ask either of them "What will the other guy say if I ask him 'is this the way to whatever?'"

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Why can I only ask you guys THREE questions?

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what if you're an idiot?

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Ask them for the answer to a very simple math question, like 1+1. Whoever answers correctly, I will go down their road.

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At 6/26/09 07:50 PM, JaY11 wrote: Ask them for the answer to a very simple math question, like 1+1. Whoever answers correctly, I will go down their road.

That, or I'd ask one of them "What would that guy say if I asked him which way lead to 'whatever'?"


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Ask them what two plus two is.


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Everything they say is a lie.

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homor

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no one has really got it yet.

HINT- the answer to the second question is very important.

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Ask the first one if he is gay for Tom Fulp. Whoever answers yes is telling the truth.

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Ask them what 2+3 is. One has to say five and the other can say whatever the fuck it wants. Then I gallop on down the right path on a camel with the brohan and pick up some Chinese takout on the way to da club.

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At 6/26/09 07:58 PM, homor wrote: no one has really got it yet.

If you ask the truth-telling guy, "which way will the other guy tell is correct?", he'll tell the truth and point you in the
wrong direction.

If you ask the lying guy the same question, he will lie and also point you in the wrong direction.

So you just go the way that neither of them pointed to.

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Ask them what they ate on their last birthday.

whoever says "cake" first is the liar.


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Hint 2- wording is very important.

"Everyone has 200,000 bad drawings in them, the sooner you get them out the better."
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Posted at: 6/26/09 08:34 PM

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they are both liars

at the begginning you stated that one lies one tell the truth, so then if they both say no to one being a liar, then they are both liars.

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ask if they are both men.

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Decide that this isn't worth your time to figure it all out and just sit and wait until something interesting happens (which will probably not happen).

Though, I remember this riddle, seems you reworded it to make it your own.

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If you ask them both if they speak the truth, the one that is lying will say yes, the one that is honest will say no.

Do I win now?

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homor would then be a liar instead of these men, and we would get together and kick his ass for spreading rumours about good men.

My 1,337th post (the second one I made in that topic).


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look at the wording "belived to only tell the truth" "can only lie"

therefore considering this i would just kill them or somthing....... i dunno.


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At 6/26/09 07:41 PM, homor wrote:
the first one says "this way"

the other says "nope, this way."

Hence
1. Both ways lead to the whatever.
2. One of them is lying
3. None of the routes goes to the arcade.

than you proceed to ask "are you both liars?"

one answers "no."

the other answers "no."

They both lie or they both tell the truth.

Since the answer to the first question, one said nope, it would mean that they are both liars and none of the routes lead to whatever.
We've established that one of them is always telling the truth

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At 6/26/09 07:41 PM, homor wrote: one is believed to only tell the truth.

the other can only lie.
At 6/26/09 07:41 PM, homor wrote: than you proceed to ask "are you both liars?"

one answers "no."

the other answers "no."

The one that would be telling the truth would of course say no, but the one lying would answer yes. And since the lying one is definitely lying, and the truth guy is a maybe, obviously they are both liars, since they both answered no.

But, they pointed in different directions, meaning that both those directions are false, and lead nowhere. And since those directions are out of the question, the only way I can possibly go is the way I came. I turn back and never speak of this again.


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Posted at: 6/26/09 09:20 PM

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At 6/26/09 08:34 PM, lifeofmystery wrote: they are both liars

at the begginning you stated that one lies one tell the truth, so then if they both say no to one being a liar, then they are both liars.

you got it!

but now that you know they're both liars, what question can you ask them to find the true route?

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Posted at: 6/26/09 09:21 PM

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At 6/26/09 09:13 PM, RubberTrucky wrote:
At 6/26/09 07:41 PM, homor wrote:
the first one says "this way"

the other says "nope, this way."
Hence
1. Both ways lead to the whatever.
2. One of them is lying
3. None of the routes goes to the arcade.

than you proceed to ask "are you both liars?"

one answers "no."

the other answers "no."
They both lie or they both tell the truth.

Since the answer to the first question, one said nope, it would mean that they are both liars and none of the routes lead to whatever.
We've established that one of them is always telling the truth

OMG you noob! i posted that 20 minuites ago but smaller, nad you just fucking stole it!...... but is the puzzle sloved now?

i apologise to all of NG. please read.
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