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    I have a problem for you; (Try to solve it)
    Topic Started: Dec 8 2008, 06:41 PM (197 Views)
    Hellhoy
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    Read the whole thing.

    There were 3 very clever thieves who stole from the village every day. So one day the king told everyone in the village that he would pay them 50 gold coins (considered alot) to whoever catches them.

    3 days later they find the the thieves and tie them and up and bring them to the king and the king tells them that they can leave if they can solve his riddle.

    The king pulls out 3 white pool balls and 2 black ones.

    He makes it so the thieves can't see by taking a black hanckerchief through which they can't see and tying it around their eyes. He then puts 3 balls (not going to say which) on their heads and takes of their hanckerchief's (the balls are somehow tied to their heads. And without talking one person out of the three has to say what color is the ball on their head by looking at the other 2 friends.

    10 minutes later the thieves walk out of the castle with no harm done to them.

    How did they do it?

    Answer must be the specific color of the ball. Black or White and an explanation for each of the three possibilities.

    I will give a hint if nobody can anwser it.
    Edited by Hellhoy, Dec 8 2008, 06:47 PM.
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    Hellhoy
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    Dec 8 2008, 06:44 PM
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    What do you mean by left. And thats not the answer you have to tell me the specific color of the ball on the guys head and there is 3 different possibilities.
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    What he said. And this really should be in the Spam Zone or Chat Thread
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    Dec 8 2008, 06:47 PM
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    Okay since you don't know how to read i dont think you understand.

    The answer is simple you give me the color of the ball you say either black or white and you explain for 3 different situations
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    Dec 8 2008, 06:49 PM
    What he said. And this really should be in the Spam Zone or Chat Thread
    His first one is wrong if you had a white ball on your head and you see 2 other people with white balls on their heads you dont know whether the ball on your head would be white or black.
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    Dec 8 2008, 06:49 PM
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    Okay since you don't know how to read i dont think you understand.

    The answer is simple you give me the color of the ball you say either black or white and you explain for 3 different situations
    Quite obviously I know how to read.


    EDIT to your last post: But you can see the two on the table right?
    Edited by ryanj27, Dec 8 2008, 06:52 PM.

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    Wolf
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    Hellhoy
    Dec 8 2008, 06:49 PM
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    Okay since you don't know how to read i dont think you understand.

    The answer is simple you give me the color of the ball you say either black or white and you explain for 3 different situations
    I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. And stop double posting
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    Dec 8 2008, 06:51 PM
    Hellhoy
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    Okay since you don't know how to read i dont think you understand.

    The answer is simple you give me the color of the ball you say either black or white and you explain for 3 different situations
    Quite obviously I know how to read.


    EDIT to your last post: But you can see the two on the table right?
    No thats the whole hard part lol. The king puts 3 balls on their heads any color he chooses he has a choice of 3 white and 2 black he can mix and match however he likes it and puts it on their head the other 2 balls they do not see.
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    Your right and this is the explanation for them

    These are clever thieves they know that there is 2 black and 3 white. So if you see 2 black pool balls on your friends heads you will say you have a white one on yours.

    The second one is there is one black and two white. One of the ones who has a white ball on his head will see a white and a black one and he will think that if he had a black ball then the one with the white ball would say that he himself had a white ball on his head because he would see the other two having black ones.

    And the third on is if they all have white balls. If its not the first or the second then the thieves understand that there is no more possibilites because the other thieves being as clever as they are would have used the first 2 to answer the question.

    So the answer no matter what is white. Because the person with the white ball on his head would say it.
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