PUZZLE CORNER
Kiwanis
Monthly Challenge
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A new puzzle will appear each month.
When you have solved the puzzle, you may submit your solution.
The solution will be given the following month, along with credit to those who have solved the puzzle. Puzzle #2 for April, 2008 “The Lady or the Tiger?”:
You are presented with two doors. Behind one waits a lovely lady with a bag of gold. Behind the other crouches a hungry tiger. If you pick the right door, you get the lady with the gold. If you pick the wrong door, you get eaten. There are signs on the doors, one of the signs is true and the other is false. The sign on Room One reads: IN THIS ROOM THERE IS A LADY AND IN THE OTHER ROOM THERE IS A TIGER. The sign on Room Two reads: IN ONE OF THESE ROOMS THERE IS A LADY, AND IN ONE OF THESE ROOMS THERE IS A TIGER. With that information can you chose the door with the lady? Text Solution #2: Remember, one sign must be true and one false. The sign on Room Two must be true, as it restates the puzzle facts. Therefore the sign on Room One must be false. Since the false sign on Room One says the lady is in that room, she clearly is not. She must be in Room Two and the tiger is in Room One. Solution from Solvers for this Month: If sign the on Room One is true than
the sign on Room Two must be false. This contradicts the
puzzle statement, therefore the sign on Room One is false, and the lady
is in Room Two.
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