Fairly easy brain teaser

soccerjayl

A man wants to get through to the another room. There are two doors up for the option of entering into the room the man wants into. However, there is a guard in front of each door. One of the guards always tells the truth, and the other guard always lies. How can the man determine which door is the right one without being killed after his first incorrect guess?

ascky

Can you ask more than one question? If so:

Ask one 'Are you a liar?' They will both answer no. Then ask them something that's true like 'Is 5+5=10?' and the one who tells truth will say 'yes' and the one who always lies will say 'no'. So the one that says 'no' both times is the liar, and the one that says 'no', then 'yes' is the one who tells the truth.

Or you could ask them 'will you answer this question?'

Noticibly F.A.T

You ask one of the guards,

"if i were to ask the other guard which door is the right one, what would he say?"

For example, the correct door is the door on the left, so if you asked the truth telling guard, he would say, "The other guard would say, the door on your right"

If you asked the liar, he would say "The other guard will say, the door on your right" He says this, cause he always lies.

Easy as pie.

BTW i didn't put it in white, cause its like the 3rd response. If people didn't want the answer, they shouldn't've scrolled down.

ascky

Okay that works as welll

soccerjayl

haha...well 'Noticeably F.A.T.' got the exact answer

almost so exact it seems like he knew it

but nevertheless, good job

daster

Couldn't the man just ask the guard what the door's color is?

ascky

That depends on the colors of the doors though. eg. If one door is red and one is blue...

daster

But that lying guard will lie no matter what, right? So if you point at the blue door and ask the guard what color it is, the guard would either lie and say it's red, or tell you what it's true color is.

ascky

Yeah, but if you ask what color the correct door is... the lieing guard will say color a and the one who tells the truth will say color b.

daster

Okay, I think I misunderstood the question.

There are two doors: one that leads to the right room and one that leads to the wrong room. Each door has a guard, and the guard either always lies or always tells the truth. Do you want to go into the door guarded by the guard who always tells the truth, or do you want to find out which door leads to the right room?

ascky

'How can the man determine which door is the right one...' I interpret that as the man wanting to find out which door lead to the right room.

daster

Ah. I did misread it.

0TheSwerve0

anyone notice this is asked in the "Labyrinth" movie?

RandallB

Your right he did seem to know it rather than solve it,
but the way you proposed the problem in post 1,
askey has just as good a solution.

The set up needed to include that you are allowed only one question of only one gaurd. They will kill you if you try ask another.

RB

soccerjayl

ok sorry for the confusion

there are two doors, both lead into different rooms

your objective is to get into the right room through one of the doors

however, u have dont know which door is the right one

there are guards guarding both doors. One guard always tells the truth, one guard always lies.

you have one question, a yes or no question, that u can ask the guards to figure out which door is the right one.

You ask what would the other guard pick (for simplicity's sake, doors 1 and 2)
the guard that always tells the truth would say door 2, the wrong door, because its the door that the lying guard would say
the guard that always lies would tell the opposite of what the other guard would say, door 1, so he would say door 2.

So at hearing them both say door 2, u pick door 1 and youre right.

there may be different possible ways, but this is what i heard it as

gerben

Yes, another solution is asking:
"what would you answer if I asked you which is the right door?"

If the right door is door 1:
The liar (who would say door 2) will lie and say: "door 1"
The truth-teller (who would say door 1) will speak the truth and say: "door 1"

This would seem a more reasonable question because whoever you ask you always get the right answer.

(This question has been asked here many many times, and is indeed also asked in the movie "Labyrinth")

soccerjayl

no that does not work
the liar would answer door 2, because he's lying