1.You are a contestant on the game show Let's Make a Deal, and emcee Monty Hall has a game for you to play. On stage are three huge doors, and he informs you that hidden behind one of the three doors is a brand new sports car, behind another is a donkey, and behind another is 400 pounds of bananas. (This may seem obvious, but your goal is to get the car, not the donkey or the bananas.) He asks you to choose one door, and you will win the prize behind that door. You choose, but before he reveals what you have won, Monty reveals what's behind one of the doors you did not pick, and it's not the car. Before revealing what lies behind the remaining two doors, he makes you one final offer: if you wish, you may switch from your choice to the other remaining door. The question is: Should you switch, should you not switch, or does it matter?
2.A professor tells her assistant that she dined with three people last night. She also tells him that the sum of the three people's ages is twice the secretary's own age and that the product of the three people's ages is 2,450. Then, she asks him to tell her the ages of the three people. After a while, the assistant tells the professor that he doesn't have enough information to solve the problem. She agrees and adds that she is older than all three people with whom she dined. The assistant, who knows her age, promptly gives the professor the correct ages. The question is: What are the ages of all five people in this story?
3.You stand at a fork in the road. Next to each of the two forks, there stands a guard. You know the following things: 1. One path leads to Paradise, the other to Death. From where you stand, you cannot distinguish between the two paths. Worse, once you start down a path, you cannot turn back. 2. One of the two guards always tells the truth. The other guard always lies. Unfortunately, it is impossible for you to distinguish between the two guards. You have permission to ask one guard one question to ascertain which path leads to Paradise. Remember that you do not know which guard you're asking -- the truth-teller or the liar -- and that this single question determines whether you live or die. The question is: What one question asked of one guard guarantees that you are led onto the path to Paradise, regardless of which guard you happen to ask?
4.An old king is about to die and he has no offspring to inherit the crown. So he summons the three wisest men from his kingdom and puts them to a test. He tells them that he is about to put them in a room and have his aide put a hat on each of them. Each hat may or may not have a dot on it, but at least one hat will have a dot. They may not touch the hats, nor communicate in any way. The first one that correctly identifies whether his hat has a dot will become the next king. If he is wrong, or if he breaks the rules, he will be killed. Then he sends all three wise men into the room.
The king then tells his aide to put dotted hats on all three.
A few minutes later one of the wise men returns and announces proudly that he has a dot. How did he know?
(complicated answer, try it only if you are a genius)
5.Suppose you're taking a multiple-choice quiz. One question has three choices. Not knowing the answer, you randomly guess A. The instructor then announces that C is incorrect. Should you switch to B before turning in your paper?
There is a Party. No Invitations, you are free to get in just by answering one question. If you get it correct, you can enter, if you get it wrong, you fail. The Dialouge:
Guard: Six?
First Visitor: Three!
Guard: You can get in. Next? Okay... Twelve?
Second Visitor: Six!
Guard: You can get in too. Next? Okay... Ten?
Third Visitor: Five!
Guard: Fail, you will never enter...you think the answer is the number I say divided by 2? Hah, you fail buddy...
In order to enter, the Third Person should've said what number?
Okay, for number 1, the "21" thing is wrong. When you say that from the original, the door has 2/3 of a chance to be the car, you are saying that, in originality, you picked a good answer, and it wasn't wrong, so the chance that the other door is the car is only 1/3 because of the original choices divided by the number of doors, times the amount of doors with bananas behind them. Think, though. The explanation in "21" uses math. Does anyone realize that you can't have negative numbers in real life, but you can in math? That branch of math (probability and statistics) uses a basis of imaginary numbers. Meaning that to go through with calculations that seem simple, complex equations must be used. The quadratic formula, for instance, is a derivation of the original formula y=ax^2 +bx+c, not a new formula in itself. Meaning that it went through a lot of alteration to get to its own state. I say all of this because someone will be bound to argue, and I want to support my point with not just the fact that math has no holding on reality, but an example of how the process of logic may not exist parallel to order. You can come up with many theories of how to use math to solve this question, but if you think for yourself, you will see that game show hosts don't make questions that rule out anyone who can't make ignorant math solutions, but that they use psychology. That means that the person who asked this "riddle" (if they answered it) wasn't preparing for arguments, and that they came up with something they thought logical.
And for number 4, if there were two dots: A: dot B: dot C: blank
When a sees that B hadn't said anything, he would see that, by using logic, the wise man would have seen one dot, and wouldn't have been sure. Since he sees person C with a blank hat, he would know that he was the source of uncertainty.
Also, these aren't "More" Impossible riddles, these have all been posted before.
ok here are my answers, i am no genius but i love riddles.
1. technically there is a 33.3 percent chance when you first start yes? when he knocks off one you didn't chose he automatically handed you a 66.6 percent chance of guessing correctly. That changes everything, so yeah i'd switch, but wouldn't care what I'd get because either way, i have a much higher chance of guessing correctly.
2.Professor: 50, Assistant: 32, guests: 49, 10, 5
3.Easy question but a sort of complicated answer. You go up to either one and you ask the guard 'If i was to ask the OTHER guard which would be the door to freedom, which would he say' The truthful guard would point to the opposite but being truthful because he knows better. The guard that lies would also point to the same door because he knows the the other guard would point to the actual door to freedom (so you're tricking the lying guard) So the simple thing to do then is pick the opposite door because both guards picked the dead door.
4. Well this one is not that complicated. lets say theres "a,b,c' You can see both wise men yeah? so you all sort of stand in a triangle and look at each other. The person with the dot can look at the other two wise men and see that they don't have the dot, so he must. This would be practically impossible if they were blindfolded.
5. This is the same principle as question one. (you'll always have a 2/3 change of guessing correctly)
1.Paul is 20 years old in 1980, but only 15 years old in 1985. How is this possible?
2.What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows.
3.I have four wings, but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry; On the same spot I'm always found, toiling away with little sound. What am I?
4.A man and a woman were driving in their car when it broke down. The man decided to go for help at a gas station a few miles back. He made sure nobody was in the car, rolled all the windows up, and locked all of the sedan's doors. He went off, but when he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a stranger in the car. No physical damage was done to the car, so how did the stranger get in?
5.What's black when you get it, Red when you use it, And white when you're all through with it
6.I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I?
7. Angry and hungry are two words that end in '-gry'. There are three words in the English language. What is the third word? Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it every day. Look closely and I have already given you the third word. What is it?
4: one of the wise men killed the other two and used their arms to turn over the hats to verify which one had the dot or two of the wise men broke the rules and were killed and he used their arms to turn over the hats to check for the dot
new set 1: Paul is in 1985 BC not ad so they count backwards not forwards there fore he is 15 2: mountain 3: windmill 4: the wife died giving birth 5: charcoal 6: fingernail 7: language
3 and 4 (of the first set)are very easy. in 3, you simply ask both of them, exactly, "which path would the other guard send me down if i'm going to paradise". they will both point one way, as the truthful guard would say that the lying guard would send you to death, and vice versa, as the lying guard, well, lies. so, you go down the path the don't point towards.
in 4, assuming there is only one dot, they are both in the same room, and they can see each other, two of them line up next to each other, and the other one looks at them. as mentioned before, he sees one dotted hat, and one blank hat. the one with the blank hat switches with the man looking, and sees the same as the last person. the final person looks at the two blank hats, and easily guesses that he has the dot. but there is a flaw in this one. not only is there no way to guess how many dots there are, if they can see eachother, if their even in the same room, if the dot is on the outside of the hat, and a lot more. therefore, the only way to answer this question correctly would be to assume things like that. we need more detail. also, for 2, we need to know the daughters age...unless i'm missing something...
4.A man and a woman were driving in their car when it broke down. The man decided to go for help at a gas station a few miles back. He made sure nobody was in the car, rolled all the windows up, and locked all of the sedan's doors. He went off, but when he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a stranger in the car. No physical damage was done to the car, so how did the stranger get in?
Wife has a baby.
3.I have four wings, but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry; On the same spot I'm always found, toiling away with little sound. What am I?
