There are two men stuck on an Island. One of the men is named Dale and the other Pat. Dale says that only one of them can leave the island alive. Pat gets rid of Dale and is rescued by who knows who. When Pat arrives home he discovers Dale with his wife. I don't know where I was going with this.
There's a hole in the ground 98 feet wide and 89 feet deep, a guy needs to get across it. He has a plastic 3 inch toy soldier and infinite amounts of rope, how does he get across?
<br> LOL apparently I can't do math late at night, but I think I have the premise down. I'll edit my numbers real quick. Thanks for catching that :grin: <br> <br> Yah I fail at adding past midnight
Spoiler Plant them on the points of a drawn pentagram, both where the five points are, on the outside, as well as where the five points are on the inside, boom, five rows, four trees each row, ten trees total.
Keeping it alive: This is a straightforward logic question (spoiler your answer anyway): Three men are captured by cannibals in a jungle. The men are given one chance to escape with their lives. The men are lined up and bound to stakes such that one man can see the backs of the other two, the middle man can see the back of the front man, and the front man can't see anybody. The men are shown five hats, three of which are black and two of which are white. Then the men are blindfolded, and one of the five hats is placed on each man's head. The remaining two hats are hidden away. The blindfolds are removed. The men are told that if just one of the men can guess what hat he's wearing, they may all go free. Time passes. Finally, the front man, who can't see anyone, correctly guesses the color of his hat. What color was it, and how did he guess correctly?
Spoiler I'll say he's wearing a black hat. If the front 2 were wearing white, then the man in the back would have known the answer immediately. And if the front man was wearing white, and the middle man was wearing black, then the middle man could assume he was wearing black because otherwise the man behind him would have (again) immediately have known his hat must be black and answered. So, the front man, after sufficient time passing without his comrades responding, must have guessed that he was wearing a black hat.
Spoiler The man probably had no idea, but guessed black. Because there are less white hats than black hats, it's more likely he'd be wearing a black one. Let's further divide the hats by number and colour. The possible choices are" white1,white2,black1,black2,black3. If the other two are wearing white hats, he must have a black one. If one man is wearing a white hat, there's still a 3/4ths chance that black is the color hat he's wearing.
da_juice, can all three guess one time, or can only one person can guess? EDIT: Never mind. Spoiler The man guessed black, because if he doesn't get it right, he's wearing white, which means one of the whites that's out. That leaves only one white hat for another one of the men to guess. He believed that if the second man guessed black, and he didn't get it right, then the last one would have guessed black, which would be right. Would that work?
Correct. That's the right track. He can give a definitive answer though, the way durvasa explains it. You wrote out the possibilities; now consider that the back man said nothing, the middle man said nothing, and the front man finally answered. You started thinking through each scenario: you said why the back two couldn't answer, but how does that help the front man find the right answer.
