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From: 5125kaf@hound.UUCP (K.FRIEDMAN)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: another puzzle
Message-ID: <1645@hound.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 14:19:06 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  9 14:19:06 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Feb-86 06:23:22 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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     Three men are in a room. The room has no mirrors and the three men
are in a straight line such that the person in the back of the line
can see the two people in front of him, the middle person can see
only the person in front of him, and the person in front can't see
anyone. Another person walks in with a bag containing 3 black hats
and two red hats. The man pulls three hats at random out of the bag
and places them randomly on the three men. He walks out of the room.
The man in the back says,"I don't know what color hat I'm wearing."
The man in the middle says,"I don't know what color hat I'm wearing, either."
Now tell me what color hat the man in the front of the line is wearing
and why.


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                                                Barry Friedman
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