@mrs_teapot wrote:
@a certain sadness wrote:
Three prisoners are brought into a separate jail cell with no one around them. The guard tells them that he has a bag containing 5 hats which 3 are green and the other two are red. He tells them that he is going to place a hat on each of their heads and the first prisoner to correctly tell the guard the colour of his hat will win his freedom. But there are two conditions that MUST be respected; 1. none of the prisoners can communicate with each other and 2. none of the prisoners can look at he colour of their own hat.
He places a hat on each of their heads and leaves. About an hour goes by and one of the prisoners calls the guard and tells him that he knows the colour of his hat and tells him how he knows. The guard tells him that he is correct and he wins his freedom. The unusual thing was that the only prisoner to win his freedom… is blind.
How did he do it?
I pondered this for hours… then gave up and googled it…. then got mad with myself for not thinking it through a bit more…. tis difficult and simple all at the same time. I wont give the game away…. good one CS.
There are none so blind as those who cannot see :D
Have to confess to doing the same – was doing my ‘ed’ (quote eve) in!! lol