The Hat Riddle
It would only work if everyone was smart enough to work out the strategy for themselves and they all arbitrarily picked the same combination of colourparity to announce.
The hat riddle. They are standing in descending order of heightsSuch that the tallest person could see rest of the 9 peoplewhile the shortest person could see none. Since neither man called out a colour the first wise man would know that his hat is white which is the only colour that. He tells them that if they win the game he will let them go free.
A guard is going to walk down the line starting in the back and ask each prisoner what color hat they have on. The aliens would like to eat you all but not if you can prove your intelligence. If the two front hats were black the third wise man would have called out the colour of his hat as white immediately.
The warden who happens to be overseeing the work decides to play a little game with the prisoners. There are four prisoners. They all know that there are 2.
They cant speak to each other and they cant touch each other. What is the answer to the 100 hat riddle. What is the answer to the hat riddle.
You and nine other individuals have been captured by super-intelligent alien overlords. View full lesson. In the riddle 100 prisoners stand in line one in front of the other each wearing either a red hat or a blue hat.
The aliens are. The aliens think humans look quite tasty but their civilization forbids eating highly logical and cooperative beings. Every prisoner can see the hats of the people in front but not their own hat or the hats worn by anyone behind.