rr@gt-cmmsr.UUCP (Richard D. Robison) (02/14/86)
> > You are staggering down a road ready to give up on life > >when you come to a fork in the road where there are two people > >standing. You have heard about this place. One of the roads goes > >straight to a hospital and the other to a alligator-infested > >swamp. One of these people always tells the truth and the other > >always lies. You can ask either person one question and only > >one question in order to determine which way the hospital is. > >What would be the question and to whom would you ask it? > > The question would obviously be "Which way is the hospital, please?" > > I would ask it to the person that tells the truth. > > >How would this question help you to determine which way to go? > > Whichever way they said, I'd go ! > > Jeesh, doesn't anyone have any hard puzzles anymore ? > > /Eric Certainly you are joking. It should be fairly obvious that you do not know which person tells the truth. -- Richard D. Robison, System Administrator Center for Man-Machine Systems Research School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0205 UUCP: rr@gt-cmmsr.UUCP uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!gt-cmmsr!rr