LISTEN i donât normally engage in Discourse but this information is DANGEROUSLY MISLEADING!
the point of the riddle isnât to figure out which one is lying, in fact, knowing which one lies and which one tells the truth is irrelevant. What you want is the correct answer from the magical beast/two guards/etc. Usually this means knowing which path to take. For that, you HAVE to ask it âif i ask the other head/guard/etc which is the safe way to go, what will they tell me?â
if you asked the truth-telling one, theyâll tell you the wrong way, because the liar will always mislead you. if you ask the liar, theyâll tell you the wrong way, because theyâre misleading you, so
ALWAYS do the opposite of whatever answer you get.
âwho cares this is a stupid tumblr post this doesnât matter irlââ
A few years ago a friend threw a halloween party, and since he dressed as the Riddler, he decided to have a riddle contest.
now, iâve been preparing for a riddle contest my entire life, since i first read the hobbit and it got bilbo out of trouble. for some reason, i assumed riddle contests were as inevitable as quicksand.
I answered the first riddle easily (it was one of the ones from the hobbit) and then i had to answer the next one to win a bottle of top-shelf rum. it was a variation on the two-guard riddle, only i had to choose one of two paper bags. one had crappy cheap vodka, the other the nice rum.Â
the host and his friend did the classic one lies one tells the truth thing, and of course before i asked everyone started shouting âask him what color your hair is!â and stuff like that, but i already knew what to ask, so i shushed them and won the rum
remember, kids, it doesnât matter which one is lying and which one is telling the truth. all that matters is you get the correct knowledge to move you forward, win your rum, and make you seem like a superhuman riddle-solver to a crowd of drunken party guests.
always be ready for a riddle contest