Riddle Number Nine
Professor Williams was visiting an island. All of the natives could only tell lies, and all of the visitors could only tell the truth. There was no way to tell them apart (by looks). The professor was interviewing people for a job as his assistant, but he needed someone that could only tell the truth. So he found one woman and asked her to ask a man a few feet away if he was a native or a visitor. When the woman returned, she said "He said he was a visitor." Is the woman a native or a visitor?
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Visitor because when asked if you are a native or visitor, the visitors would tell the truth (visitor) and the natives would lie (visitor), so if the woman was a native she would have said the man was a native, but she didn't.
on April 26, 2015
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Native, Sally used it in a comic once...
What is your reasoning?
I rly don't know, I'm more gullible then Silver the hedgehog... and Sally is pretty smart so I'd believe her real or not...
on April 13, 2015
on April 13, 2015
on April 13, 2015
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Visitor
Why do you say that?
The goal was the woman was supposed to ask a man whether he was a native or a visitor, and then accurately tell Professor Williams what the man said.
on April 09, 2015
on April 09, 2015
on April 09, 2015
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Native. Because he had interviewed that person before and knew he was a native?
No :3
on April 09, 2015
on April 09, 2015
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It's impossible to tell unless they knew if the man was a native or visitor.
on April 09, 2015
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Natve.
Why?
Idk really but is it the fact that the man was a few feet away and couldn't be asked at that time?
on April 09, 2015
on April 09, 2015
on April 09, 2015