New riddle.

[MrDingleDangle]

Originally posted by: MaxDSP

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
i think you are missing a line from it...

when they unblindfolded the king asks, if you see a green mark, raise your hand...all three raise their hand

I remember something like the king says 2 might have 1 color, while the third has a different color to fool them. I think he forgot a crucial detail

well it goes...since all 3 raise their hands they should know

if you had red and all 3 raised their hands...one of the other two would know they had green
say u are #1
#1-red
#2-green
#3-green
automatically #3 knows #2 is raising his hand because he has green, because he cant be seeing it on #1

but since no one answers their hands, they are either braindead or all three have green

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
i think you are missing a line from it...

when they unblindfolded the king asks, if you see a green mark, raise your hand...all three raise their hand

i too think something is fishy with the wording, especially after seeing a similar riddle worded a bit differently

 

[Marty]

I think that the riddle was posed incorrectly. This is what I found online:

The King is about to die. He sends messengers throughout the land looking for the three smartest people. Finally, three are found. He gives them a task to see which one is the wisest. He tells them, "I will seat you in a triangle so that each of you faces the other two. Then I will blindfold you and paint either a yellow or a blue dot on each of your foreheads. When I remove the blindfolds you must each raise your hand if you see any yellow dots. As soon as you have worked out what colour your own dot is, lower your hand and tell me." So he seats them, blindfolds them, and then paints a yellow dot on all three foreheads. When the blindfolds are removed, all three hands go up. After a long pause, one hand comes down and the man says, "Your Highness, I have a yellow dot." How did he know?

Case: The blindfolds are removed, all three hands go up. This can only happen if at least two people have yellow dots or if all people have yellow dots. The man sees 2 yellow dots, so he raises his hand, and sees that the other 2 have raised theirs. If he had a red dot on his head, one of the other men would quickly figure out that he himself had a yellow dot. Since everyone sits there looking confused, and because our hero knows that the other 2 are wise men too, he deduces that his dot must be yellow.

 

[MrDingleDangle]

Originally posted by: MaxDSP

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
i think you are missing a line from it...

when they unblindfolded the king asks, if you see a green mark, raise your hand...all three raise their hand

I remember something like the king says 2 might have 1 color, while the third has a different color to fool them. I think he forgot a crucial detail

well it goes...since all 3 raise their hands they should know

if you had red and all 3 raised their hands...one of the other two would know they had green
say u are #1
#1-red
#2-green
#3-green
automatically #3 knows #2 is raising his hand because he has green, because he cant be seeing it on #1

but since no one answers their hands, they are either braindead or all three have green

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Marty
I think that the riddle was posed incorrectly. This is what I found online:

The King is about to die. He sends messengers throughout the land looking for the three smartest people. Finally, three are found. He gives them a task to see which one is the wisest. He tells them, "I will seat you in a triangle so that each of you faces the other two. Then I will blindfold you and paint either a yellow or a blue dot on each of your foreheads. When I remove the blindfolds you must each raise your hand if you see any yellow dots. As soon as you have worked out what colour your own dot is, lower your hand and tell me." So he seats them, blindfolds them, and then paints a yellow dot on all three foreheads. When the blindfolds are removed, all three hands go up. After a long pause, one hand comes down and the man says, "Your Highness, I have a yellow dot." How did he know?

Case: The blindfolds are removed, all three hands go up. This can only happen if at least two people have yellow dots or if all people have yellow dots. The man sees 2 yellow dots, so he raises his hand, and sees that the other 2 have raised theirs. If he had a red dot on his head, one of the other men would quickly figure out that he himself had a yellow dot. Since everyone sits there looking confused, and because our hero knows that the other 2 are wise men too, he deduces that his dot must be yellow.

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Yes! Thank you!

I wrote it off the top of my head.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: Marty
I think that the riddle was posed incorrectly. This is what I found online:

The King is about to die. He sends messengers throughout the land looking for the three smartest people. Finally, three are found. He gives them a task to see which one is the wisest. He tells them, "I will seat you in a triangle so that each of you faces the other two. Then I will blindfold you and paint either a yellow or a blue dot on each of your foreheads. When I remove the blindfolds you must each raise your hand if you see any yellow dots. As soon as you have worked out what colour your own dot is, lower your hand and tell me." So he seats them, blindfolds them, and then paints a yellow dot on all three foreheads. When the blindfolds are removed, all three hands go up. After a long pause, one hand comes down and the man says, "Your Highness, I have a yellow dot." How did he know?

Case: The blindfolds are removed, all three hands go up. This can only happen if at least two people have yellow dots or if all people have yellow dots. The man sees 2 yellow dots, so he raises his hand, and sees that the other 2 have raised theirs. If he had a red dot on his head, one of the other men would quickly figure out that he himself had a yellow dot. Since everyone sits there looking confused, and because our hero knows that the other 2 are wise men too, he deduces that his dot must be yellow.

 

[Garet Jax]

Great. I have a puzzle that I am going to change so that it makes no sense, ask a whole bunch of people who think about it long and hard until someone finds the right puzzle on the internet.

Oh wait this has already been done