Difficult Logic Question That Most Would Get Wrong

[ManOnTheMoon]

You die you go to a room with two identical doors with indentical guards, one guards the door to heaven the other to hell, you have to choose your door and your only allowed to ask one question. The man guarding heaven always tells the truth and the man guarding hell allways tells a lie. What question do you ask?

 

*Hint: They have no prior knoledge to you and they do not know anything of each other, just about their door and nothing else. :glasses:

[Zolor23]

what would the other guard say?

 

EDIT: Oh wait, damn, no knowledge of each other? um...........idk

Edited April 18, 2010 by Zolor23

[ManOnTheMoon]

what would the other guard say?

 

One guard doesn't know anything about the other. So he wouldn't know what the other guard would say.

[NomarFachix]

Ask them which door they're in front of, they'll both direct you to the Heaven door.

[Zolor23]

Ask them which door they're in front of, they'll both direct you to the Heaven door.

The guy in front of Hell would say 'Heaven' and the guy in front of heaven says ' Heaven', so which Heaven you go for?

[YugoRocketsFan]

What if Heaven or Hell dont exist and the doors lead me to either Baskin Robbins or burger king

Edited April 18, 2010 by YugoRocketsFan

[ManOnTheMoon]

The guy in front of Hell would say 'Heaven' and the guy in front of heaven says ' Heaven', so which Heaven you go for?

 

Exactly.

[Cobb]

Haha, now it all makes sense. That was a good one.

[fly3rs18]

didnt realize that you dont know which guard is which. makes it a bit more difficult

[fly3rs18]

and is the heaven guard in front of the heaven door and the hell guard in front of the hell door?

 

 

 

if the heaven guard is in front of the heaven door then i would just ask one guard "what color is the sky" or some basic easy question like that. if its right then i go into that door, if its wrong then i go into the other door

 

 

 

does that work?

Edited April 18, 2010 by fly3rs18

[NomarFachix]

The guy in front of Hell would say 'Heaven' and the guy in front of heaven says ' Heaven', so which Heaven you go for?

 

No I didn't mean like... are you in front of the Heaven door, I mean... Like, which door are you in front of, this one or that one. They will both show you to the same door, Heaven.

Edited April 18, 2010 by Bounding and Astounding

[fly3rs18]

No I didn't mean like... are you in front of the Heaven door, I mean... Like, which door are you in front of, this one or that one. They will both show you to the same door, Heaven.

 

i dont know if that would work. its asking a question then telling them to do something

 

 

im just trying to make it harder lol

[NomarFachix]

i dont know if that would work. its asking a question then telling them to do something

 

 

im just trying to make it harder lol

 

Ok, how about "can you point to the door you're in front of?"

[NomarFachix]

Or you can just ask them "are you in front of this door or that one". They'll still both direct you to the same door.

[Poe]

B and A got it right, even though I'm guessing it wasn't the predetermined answer.

[fly3rs18]

Or you can just ask them "are you in front of this door or that one". They'll still both direct you to the same door.

 

are you allowed to ask the question to both guards or just one of them?

[ManOnTheMoon]

B & A i guess can be right, but there is more of a logical and clear - cut answer.

[YugoRocketsFan]

Actually, you can ask one of the guards if he is a man, if he says yes, he is telling the truth and there is heaven, boom.

[Poe]

Yea, the fact that you know the truth guy is guarding the heaven door, and vise versa, kind of ruins the whole riddle.

[TheNextBestThing]

I've heard this before. B&A is correct. The traditional answer is: "Which door is yours?"

 

 

Heaven guard tells the truth and shows you the Heaven door, while Hell guard lies and shows you the Heaven door.

[fish7718]

Haha just ask if 2+2=4, the one that say yes is the one guarding the way to heaven no?

[fish7718]

How bout a real tough one can anyone figure out this riddle?

 

3 guys decide to check into a hotel, it is $30 so they split it 3 ways $10 bucks each. They go up to their rooms but when they are up in their rooms the clerk realizes he [expletive]ed up and its only $25 dollars. So he gives the bellboy $5 dollars and sends him on up. On the way the bell boy says to himself 3 guys 5 dollars? So the bell hop pockets 2 of the 5 dollars. So he gives a dollar back to each of the men so now each guy paid 9 dollars. 9+9+9 = $27 + $2 the bell hop kept, wheres the other dollar?..... :huh:

[NomarFachix]

I know it, but I won't answer. Give everyone a chance to see it/try it first.

[deestillballin]

$9 x 3 = $27 The 3 men gave the hotel $30. The hotel gave five to the bellboy, who kept $2 and gave the men $3. So, the hotel had $25, the bellboy had $2 and each of the 3 men got back $1 or a total of $3 to the men so: $25 [hotel] + $2[the dude] + $3[men] = $30

 

i think my math is right

[Poe]

So he gives a dollar back to each of the men so now each guy paid 9 dollars. 9+9+9 = $27 + $2 the bell hop kept, wheres the other dollar?..... :huh:

That doesn't work because you subtracted 3 by giving 3$ back to the three guys, so it equals 27, not 30. The three guys actually paid 27 dollars, 25 paid for the actually price, with 2 extra given to the bellboy. The other 3 dollars was simply handed back to them.