Choose a box!
April 4, 2010 at 1:15 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2010 at 6:00 pm by mike0001.)
Here is an old one.
A man is confronted with a woman who has two boxes. She places a gold coin in one of them. He doesn't see which. She then places them before him and asks him to choose one.
There are inscriptions on the boxes to give him clues.
On the first box it says "The gold coin is in the other box."
On the second box it says "Only one of the inscriptions on these boxes is correct."
After a moment's thought, the man picks the first box up.
Why is he disappointed?
A man is confronted with a woman who has two boxes. She places a gold coin in one of them. He doesn't see which. She then places them before him and asks him to choose one.
There are inscriptions on the boxes to give him clues.
On the first box it says "The gold coin is in the other box."
On the second box it says "Only one of the inscriptions on these boxes is correct."
After a moment's thought, the man picks the first box up.
Why is he disappointed?
