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?
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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