Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Two Doors and One Way Out

Another riddle that I made for fun. Enjoy.

Two Doors and One Way Out

A trader walks into a village one morning and gets some food from the local inn. At the inn, he finds three people already in there. The three people apparently are described to have the ability to tell the future, so the man decides to try their ability out. The man also knows that out of the three people, two lie and one tells the truth, and their information is extremely accurate. The man asks the three people what his day will be like, and the three people answer in this respective order:
"You will step into a pit of snakes."
"You will spend the night in a safe house."
"You will live through the night."
Though this sounds very mysterious, the man ventures onto the next village across the mountain to trade some goods. The man is walking through the mountain to get to the village, but gets lost. The man wanders around aimlessly in the darkness of night, until he comes across two doors.
A sign next to the two doors explains the rules for choosing a door. The left door is a safe house with food, water, and warmth. The right door leads into a pit of poisonous snakes. The man can only choose one door, and once chosen, there is no turning back.
The man considers not choosing a door at all, but then hears a pack of hungry wolves howling extremely close by. The man knows that he stinks due to a hard day hiking, and knows that the wolves will smell him sooner or later. Also, it is supposed to be very cold and snowy outside that night, and the man does not want to die of hypothermia or frostbite of some sort.
The man then narrows his choices down to three options:
-Choose the door on the left, which is a safe house.
-Choose the door on the right, which leads into a pit of snakes.
-Don't choose a door.
The man then remembers what the three people in the inn had said at the beginning of the day, and instantly knows what to do.

What did the man choose to do?

1 comment:

  1. Um...ok. No...wrong answer (sort of). "You will spend the night" doesn't mean ALL of the night, just any time during night. And the pit is approximately 50 miles deep and the snakes aren't alive. But neither are you if you fall in here.

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