Treasure chest
Two chest with title engraved, one with treasure. One title says "This chest has a snake", the other says "One of the two is correct"
Will you be doomed to oblivion bitten by the deadly snake or will you find the treasure?
Will you be doomed to oblivion bitten by the deadly snake or will you find the treasure?
Labels: logic, trickofmind
posted by Rajesh Lal at
9:06 AM
24 Comments:
1. If the "one of the two is correct" chest is infact correct, then the other must be false (The "This chest has a snake" chest could not possibly contain a snake and must hold the treasure).
2. If however the "one of the two is correct" chest is false, then either both are false (making the "This chest contains a snake" chest false [thus it contains no snake]), or both are true which is obviously impossible seeing as the "one of the two is correct" chest must be false for this to work.
Therefore, according to theory 1., you would have to take the "this chest contains a snake chest" to ensure no snake and ultimaely, the treasure =] =] =]
This chest has a snake is the correct answer. If only one is false and one does in fact have a treasure. One of the two are correct could only be true if the other was false. Or like daniel said and both are false and neither had a treasure, or both had a treasure.
I think that if one of the two has to be correct that the chest that says "one of the two has to be correct" must be correct and the one with the snake must be false there for it has the treasure.
what if the treasure is a snake?
I would just push over the two chests and see which one is lighter, which would obviously contain the snake. If it's a typical wooden chest, a simple kick test is all you'd need to determine which chest is denser, containing the treasure. This is assuming that the treasure would be a significant amount of gold, the proverbial king's ransom, because if it was just a map to a treasure, that would suck. Another question I must ask is is the snake poisonous. Another thing with the wording of this problem is that "one of the two is correct" does not imply that one of the two has to be wrong. With the implication that "this chest has a snake" is wrong, it could be concluded that both chests could contain treasure. At the same time, assuming it is right, one chest will have the snake, the other the treasure. Similarly, both chests could contain snakes. I personally don't care for treasure, nor do i care to be bit by a snake. You all can have the damned treasure.
take a gun and shoot a hole in one. if you see gold in the hole..it the right one, if not, keep shooting it.
if you want an eazy solution then do what the guy beforemw said. shoot the box and if you dont see gold then keep shooting, but if you dont have a gun then your screwed
If both chests are wooden and one of them has tresure such as gold, you could just burn them both. The gold will melt and the snake will die. Then you can just wait for the gold to solidify and take it with you.
-Killerofsheep
wait for it to solidify?and if you burn it, the snake can get out unless its like made of gun powder and tnt..
and thanks for saying the shooting thing of mine was right!
if the choice to open the chests can take longer than...some days, then wait some a little longer to open them. i'm sure that a snake can't survive without food for long...=)
shake each chest. the one with the snake should have some sound coming from it. it would be nice if the snake was a rattlesnake...
if "one of the two is correct" is false, how does that make "this chest has a snake" false? it just means we can disregard that title assuming that one is false. that means we should open the one with "one of the two is correct" since "this chest has a snake" actually has the snake.
open both from a distance
haha... all of these are great ideas, and in the situation, i don't think anyone would try and figure out a puzzle to get to gold... however... it does say "one of the two is correct" that doesn't necessarliy mean that one is false... it could be like that question - two coins to make 30 sense, one is not a quarter .. or something like that...
... it could mean that both chests are correct
Label your chests better people.
i would go for the one that was the lightest and didnt hiss at me when i rattled it around
i would just guess =]
ye scallywags, get away from my treasure.
i'd get a at ready, then i'd go into the nearest town and ask the most retarted person to open one of the chests, if thier is gold in it, i would knock out the retard, if thire is a snake........... i'd hit the snake after the retard was "accidentily" killed, then i'd open the other chest
HAHAHA so fun. the answer i go with is the chest with now title. Since one of the three chest says: Snake; and other one says: one of two is correct. pick the one with no title. Duh!
If ur going to be doomed to oblivion why would u open the chest????
if there is a snake (which by any normal sense of intelligence there HAS to be) then the REAL question is how long has it been in the chest? if its been a very LONG time, like, if were talking ancient or even the 1700s to the 1800s (around the pirates reign, which history tells they were the tradtional users of treasure, or "booty", placed in wooden chests...... argh) then the snake is dead.... BUT if its been in there a less amount of time than that, then youre gonna have one hell of an agitated and hungry slither toy to deal with. in which case, take the chest that says "one of the two IS correct" (and the fact that theyre grammer is so HORRID tells us that this is either a really OLD riddle when english wasnt so great, OR it was posted by a kid without spell check, ALSO in which case you would be smarter to take the same chest).......... uh..... your welcome. :D
Another question for the puzzle enthusiasts, there are 21 errors in the last comment and one in this one, can you find them?
Fardin i found the error in your comment
there are more than 21 errors in the previous comments
ANSWER
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Open the chest with the title
"This chest has snake"
GOT RIGHT
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Dabniel, Harry and few anonymous guys
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