Darren New wrote:
> Eero Ahonen wrote:
>> Rune wrote:
>>> There are two passages of which you must choose one. One of them 
>>> leads to freedom, the other one to doom. Once you have chosen one, 
>>> you are stuck with it. In front of each passage is a guards. One 
>>> guard always tell the truth and one always lies. You don't know which 
>>> does what. Now you must find out which passage to choose by asking 
>>> the guards questions...
>>
>> Solving which one is which is actually easy. 
> 
> The actual puzzle is that you only get to ask one question.
> 
> I've also seen it done with three creatures, one who tells the truth, 
> one who lies, and one who picks at random. Except they don't speak your 
> language: they speak a language where Jay and Dook mean yes and no, or 
> maybe no and yes.
> 
> The solution is along the lines of "Would the second person answer Dook 
> to the question of what the third person would answer if and only if the 
> work Jay means "yes" in my language?"  Really convoluted, but it works out.
> 
And in the puzzle stated in the top post, you'd have a change of 1/3 of 
being stabbed.

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