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From: osman@roxie.DEC (Eric, Digital, Maynard,  617 493-6664)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: this one was simple
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Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 10:08:19 EST
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>     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