[Rhodes22-list] Another Slow Day Riddle. (spoiler included)

[Rik Sandberg]

Hmmm....... That makes sense Doug.......good answer. I was going to say, if
a motorcycle has no doors, how may shingles will it take to cover the
shithouse roof???? :-) :-) But come to think of it, that probably wasn't
right anyway. :-) :-) :-)

Rik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gardner, Douglas L. (LNG)" <douglas.gardner@lexisnexis.com>
To: <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 3:19 PM
Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Another Slow Day Riddle. (spoiler included)


> What would the other robot tell me is the safe door?
>
> Then open the opposite door.
>
> The correct answer robot will say that the other robot will tell me to
open
> the wrong door.
>
> The wrong answer robot will say that the other robot will tell me to open
> the wrong door.
>
> Open the opposite door, and you'll get the correct one.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Weber [mailto:ruba1811@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 3:33 PM
> To: rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Another Slow Day Riddle.
>
>
> Ok,  Here is another riddle which kept me and my college buddys arguing
and
> debating for 3 years of camp fires.  ( I didn't say it was a very good
> college )  There is an answer which I will reveal at K-Lake if no one gets
> it or has already heard the riddle.  You are alone in a small room.  There
> are two identical doors.  One door leads to freedom and the other is
certain
>
> death (we'll say it floods the room with parinna infested water).  In the
> room with you are two robots.  Both know the correct door and you are
> allowed to ask just 1 question.  Not one question to each robot but just
one
>
> question.  The quirk comes in that you know that one robot is programmed
to
> always give the correct answer and the other is programmed to always give
a
> wrong answer, however you don't know which is which.  What question do you
> ask in order to know which door to open?  Hint, It was a Math guy that got
> the answer.  Good Luck
> Bob Weber
> S/V Ruba
>
>
>
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