<p>I'm going to post this here because my friend and I are having a debate about whether or not the collegeconfidential crowd is intelligent enough to know the answer. Just a simple logic riddle, and I want to see the various responses.</p>
<p>You're in a land inhabited by people who either always tell the truth or always tell falsehoods. you come to a fork in the road and you need to know which fork leads to the capital. There is a local resident there but he has time only to reply to one yes-or-no question. What one question should you ask so as to learn which fork to take?</p>
<p>Ask them “which fork would the OTHER people tell me to take” and then take the other one.</p>
<p>Lol, there are no other people in this problem. There’s just the one person and you don’t know if he tells the truth or lies and you wouldn’t know if the other people tell the truth or lie either, even if they were in the problem. Nice try though :P</p>
<p>non sequiter:</p>
<p>Post #1500 needs to be in rainbow</p>
<p>I’d point down one fork and ask the guy something like:</p>
<p>Is it true that EITHER you are a truth-teller and that is the right way OR you are a liar and that is the wrong way?</p>
<p>If I’m pointing down the right road, then both liars and truth-tellers will have to say “yes.”
If I’m pointing down the wrong road, then both liars and truth-tellers will have to say “no.”</p>
<p>But, I’m not really sure what “knowing the answer” has to do with being smart. Maybe you have to be smart - or at least good at logic - to figure out the answer on your own, but anyone could know the right answer.</p>