Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-48285-20141118170709/@comment-17259909-20150402204645

Zazme Yakuza wrote:

OnePieceNation wrote:

DinoTaur wrote: A group of three logicians have been asked by the king to play a game. There are three black hats and two white hats, and the logicians must correctly say which hat they have on. The king makes them stand in a single-file line, although he lets them choose the order. The least wise one of the three chooses the back. The second most wise one of the three chooses the middle. The wisest of the three chooses the front. They are blind folded and each logician receives a hat on their head. The blindfolds are removed, and the one in the back can see the two in front, the one in the middle can see the one in front of him, and the one in the front can see neither. Without directly communicating to each other, or peaking at their hats, they each come to an answer:

The one in the back says, "I don't know."

The one in the middle says, "I don't know."

The one in the front says, "I know," and gives the correct answer.

What was the colour of his hat? Probably white since there is 66 % it might be. Yeah I don't do riddles. This is for you OPN,The answer is

Wrong Question,This is the answer,

There are supposed to be 4 guys to be hanged,this is the formation

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The correct answer is the guys in the middle,since he can only see his front but not in the back he can easily figure out that the hat color is alternating but his is white,as OPN said.

But if there is a question to that answer is white,(sorry to make this things like im the one on the topic this is just for OPN to know) Wrong.

RIDDLE SPOILER

The riddle basically uses deductive logic.

Here are all the combinations.

Let's start at the one in the back. He knows that there are two white hats and three black hats. Therefore, if he saw two white hats, he would know he had a black hat since he could have no other hat. But the fact that he didn't means that there weren't two white hats in front, therefore combination 1 can be eliminated.

Moving on to the one in the middle, he understands the logic that I just gave before. Knowing that there was either one or no white hat between the man in front and him, if he saw a white hat in front, he would know that his hat would be black (since the man in the back did not see two whites). Since he said he didn't know, that means he did not see a white hat in front. Combinations 2 and 6 can be eliminated due to this.

And we are left with the man in front. Understanding all of the logic I explained before, he narrows everything down to four combinations (3, 4, 5, and 7). In each case, the man in front has the black hat and knows the answer.

RIDDLE SPOILER END

How did you like my explanation?