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Violence is always the answer
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This puzzle is always presented as difficult, but why not just ask a known? If your eyes are brown just ask “Are my eyes brown?” You’d immediately know which one lies or tells the truth.Knowing who lies and who tells the truth doesn't tell you which door leads to the prize and which to death.
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I mean, the Barbarian asked the one question and didn't gain anything from it. Knowing which one is the liar doesn't... help anymore.That's why it's funny.
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This post did not contain any content.This still doesn't accomplish the goal of knowing which door will kill you. All you've done is determine which guard is the liar.
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This still doesn't accomplish the goal of knowing which door will kill you. All you've done is determine which guard is the liar.So you ask them which way leads to the castle and you don't pick the way they say. If we're assuming that these things are actually bound by some kind of rule stating they literally cannot lie or literally cannot tell the truth.
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So you ask them which way leads to the castle and you don't pick the way they say. If we're assuming that these things are actually bound by some kind of rule stating they literally cannot lie or literally cannot tell the truth.But you asked your one question to the one remaining guard. You gained no intel.
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This still doesn't accomplish the goal of knowing which door will kill you. All you've done is determine which guard is the liar.
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So the traditional answer here is to ask them to point at the door the other guard will say is safe. However, I'm curious, does anyone know of any other valid solutions?
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The difficulty comes from only being able to ask one question. It's very easy to figure out the liar, but it's much more difficult to figure out the liar and the correct door in the same question
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The riddle only makes sense as such with one question in total. The trick is to ask one guard what the other guard would say is behind a particular door.
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The riddle is worded vaguely and we just murdered one of the guys. I think we can lawyer another question out of them.
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The first time I encountered a version of this riddle it actually wasn't Labyrinth. It was an old black and white episode of Dr Who aired on PBS when I was a little kid. Same scenario but if I recall, robots instead of guardsmen. I think the good doctor solved the riddle in the typical way of asking one robot what the other would say. I'm looking for it now but I can't find the scene.
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This post did not contain any content.Do you think it would suck to be one of the bottom heads?
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I've always seen it as outside of their control. It's not that the lying guard _chooses_ to lie, it's that they're incapable of _not_ lying.
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