The Two Guards, Part II: Stranger Than Truth?

Question

You have undoubtedly heard of those mysterious islands where half the inhabitants always tell the truth and the other half always lie. Nobody seems to have actually visited one of these islands, but everyone knows of someone who has, someone who found himself at the fork in a road with a strange islander (who could be either a truth teller or a liar) and who was able to ask only one question to find the right path.
That's simple. So is the case where the islanders don't speak English and you have to interpret their response. It's even possible to find the right road if half of them are zombies or psycho killers and you are armed with one silly question.
I once found myself on an island that made those places look like "Romper Room." Picture, if you will, the Isle of Row, a one-acre forsaken swatch of desert in the middle of the Sea of Troubles. Despite its diminutive size, Row has no less than four kinds of people, all outwardly indistinguishable from one another. There are the members of the First Family, who always tell the truth, and the Pretenders, who never do. There are the Eccentrics, who may or may not tell the truth, depending on whim. Finally there are the Wimps, who are incapable of speaking unless they have heard one of the other kinds of people speak, and then they obsequiously chime in.
One day, as luck would have it, I found myself at the only crossroads on the island, facing four possible routes. Three Rowians stood by, milling about, and I had only two questions to ask in order to reach, as directly as possible, the fabled 100-foot Tower of Schmooze, the island's premier, albeit only, tourist attraction. What did I do?
Yours in pursuit of truth, Dr. Crypton.

Answer 1

you just looked around for the tower. On a 1 acre island you'd be able to see a 100 foot tower from anywhere.

Answer 2

Ignore the whole lot of them and walk straight to the tower!
A 100-foot tower can't hide itself on a one-acre desert

Answer 3

meanwhile, Your friendly Pharmacist reaches into the hidden pocket interior his coat and pulls out a 2nd packet, no longer in user-friendly terms like the 1st. It jiggles surprisingly in his hand and he seems approximately sheepishly as he tears on the nook of the packet. Out pour 10,000 indignant, energized fleas, leaping in each path. in simple terms then Gio slips into the room, asserting, "I extremely have for you the respond of the subject which you have that has in simple terms now transpired so ominously on your demesne." BG says WTF, and Buk screeches "Auntie!" and holds his palms over his ears, yet no longer earlier a flea vaults in earlier the portals close. BB says, "Do something!" and the pharmacist reaches into yet yet another pocket and whips out a flea bomb canister. in simple terms then The Undefeatable re-enters the room; he have been taking a unload, which he planned to placed up later after a sprint "sharpening." in simple terms then all the fleas, different than the single in Buk's ear, jumped onto The Undefeatable, the place they have been for sure greater at homestead, and The Pharmacist pushed him out the door, slamming it at the back of him. The Pharmacist shouted "Eureka!" whereupon Gio mistook him for a countryman and mentioned, "That grew to become into dazzling. you're, like me, a miles better genius than Einstein, in spite of the fact that i'll continuously deny asserting it!" With that, The Pharmacist opened the flea bomb, surpassed it to Gio (you have gotta hand it to him!), and made a hasty retreat. A undesirable scent quickly permeated the room, and in simple terms earlier anybody fainted, Buk mentioned, "Ian, your poems are undesirable adequate, there is not any could desire to fart!" Gio snickered, yet no one knew it because of the fact it grew to become into no longer in English.

Answer 4

lift up your head locate the tower and take a road.

Answer 5

Go Home

Answer 6

Strange because I just came from there!