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age
Three Dots
Three Dots
You are travelling in a deep, dark forest when, suddenly, on a dark and
stormy night, you are captured by the kind-but-not-so-bright forest people.
They keep looking at you and saying to each other, "It be a smart person!"
You are marched to their village and seated in the square. Before you are
blindfolded, you notice two other lucky souls seated in chairs facing you.
Then you are told that the forest people king is about to die. He previously
sent messengers throughout the land seeking the 3 smartest people. You are
one, and two others have also been found.
He now gives you all a task to see which one is the wisest.
He tells you, "I have seated you in an equilateral triangle so that each of
you faces the other two. While you are blindfolded I will paint a dot on
each of your foreheads. Each dot will be red or green so that there can be
any combination of red and green dots, for example, 1 red and 2 greens, or
all red, etc. When I remove the blindfolds each of you must raise your hand
if you see any green dots, i.e. 1 or 2 dots. As soon as you have figured out
what color your own dot is, tell me how you knew."
So he paints a green dot on all three foreheads. When the blindfolds are
removed, all three hands go up.
After a long pause, the wisest person, (that's you!) say, "Your highness, I
have a green dot. The reason I know this is that..."
How did you know?
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You'll know when you've figured it out because there is only one logical
explanation....Once you've figured it out forward it on to your friends to
figure out!!!
posted by
Karen
6/29/2001
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