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#77759 Wed, 02 Mar 05 10:11 AM

Your answer was very simmilar to what I had in mind for an answer my guesty compadre.
I've seen this riddle before but it was with two guys and two doors, one door to life, one to left, one question, one mysterious lyer one, truthteller..yadda yadda... The answer to that riddle was "Which door would the other man tell me to take if I was going to ask him which door lead to my death?" basicly the same theory of dual uncertenty is in this riddle as well.

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simplyblessedwithlove

#77903 Wed, 02 Mar 05 10:03 PM

Adams, I think you can also say, "If I asked you for the path leading to life and someone else did the same thing before me, what did you tell him?"

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ChesneyWormbot1

#77925 Wed, 02 Mar 05 11:53 PM

One would ask the man to go with him down the path to life since he is not being asked a question that requires a verbal answer he cannot lie, and he will not lead you down the wrong path for the mind iin its simplest form functions for the sole purpose of self preservation, he will not lead himself to die.

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Hoogard

#77934 Thu, 03 Mar 05 12:34 AM

You're just forgetting the fact that he doesn't have to go with you anywhere.

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#77941 Thu, 03 Mar 05 01:10 AM

That isn't a stipulation of the riddle you could say the same thing about asking him a question he doesn't have to answer but its a given that he does for all intents and purposes of the riddle.

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Hoogard

#77944 Thu, 03 Mar 05 01:13 AM

except that it is given that he according to legend answers one of your questions. And lies every second time and tells the truth the other times. It is obviously not known to legend that he leads anyone who wants to the road of life.

And even so, you can't naturally assume he won't lead you to the road of death based on his will to survive. you know nothing about this man. Perhaps he's not even mortal and cannot die. Perhpas he has no choice in the matter so your reasoning is false.

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#77947 Thu, 03 Mar 05 01:18 AM

the riddle says that he tells the truth every second time and tells qa lie every second time
he can't do both they negate eachother. It doesn't say he tells the truth every first and third time it says second the two situations block eachother out.

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