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From: rr@gt-cmmsr.UUCP (Richard D. Robison)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: this one was simple? yea
Message-ID: <137@gt-cmmsr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 19:51:57 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 19:51:57 1986
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Organization: Center for Man-Machine Systems Research, Georgia Tech
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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

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

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