3 boys form a single line que. A magician shows them the 5 hats that he is having: three of them are Red and two are Blue. He then asks the boys to close their eyes and puts one hat on each one's head at random. The remaining 2 hats are kept hidden. Now the magician asks the boys to open their eyes and asks the last boy: "Without looking at your hat, can you tell me its colour?" The boy keeps guessing for some time and finally says: "No". Then the same question to the boy in the middle also gets a negative answer. At last, the magician asks the first boy in the que: "Can you tell me the colour of your hat without, of course, looking at it or looking back at your friends?" The boy thinks for a while and says: " My hat's colour is red". Yes that was the correct answer. How was it possible?
2006-10-31 05:02:33 · 12 answers · asked by Hobby 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
Logical thinking.
2006-11-01 01:41:42 · update #1
Cuz the other 2 had blue hats! lol !
2006-10-31 05:05:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The last boy couldn't have seen two blues otherwise he would have known that he had a red hat on. Therefore the two in front must have been both red or a blue and red. If the 2nd boy saw a blue then he would have known that he was wearing red. He didn't know so he must have been looking at red. First boy could then make his declaration.
2006-11-01 20:54:32 · answer #2 · answered by saljegi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It had to be red. No matter what the other boys said, there were 3 people, 2 blue hats, 3 red hats. The odds were in his favor that he would be wearing a red hat.
2006-10-31 05:32:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps his two friends guessed red and each were wrong, if they were both wrong then that would automatically make red his hats colour since two hats were blue and 3 were red. His friends were wearing blue hats.
2006-10-31 05:07:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He went through each colour that the other boys got wrong and narrowed it down to red.
Or else he just looked in a mirror
2006-10-31 05:06:33 · answer #5 · answered by Only Sometimes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey more confusing thing in ur puzzle is the magician.... why do u call him magician when it is the boy who did the trick!
(Actually i don't know the answer)
2006-10-31 05:40:52 · answer #6 · answered by KK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cos the other two boys had blue hats
2006-10-31 05:07:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He took a shot it had to be one or the other what was the magician going to say ? either right or wrong
The other boys according to what you wrote just said no they didnt say either color
2006-10-31 05:10:01 · answer #8 · answered by RWIZ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cuase the other 2 guessed red and were wrong
2006-10-31 05:09:49 · answer #9 · answered by white_goth_11 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
b/c the boys can feel red and he open hios eyes and cheated
2006-10-31 05:20:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋