<div dir="ltr">...or you take the sister with you and tell her that if the car runs out of petrol she has to push the car!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Volker Kuhlmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:list0570@paradise.net.nz" target="_blank">list0570@paradise.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sat 06 Dec 2014 19:45:56 NZDT +1300, Mark Atherton wrote:<br>
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> Ask "which fork would your sister tell me to choose"<br>
><br>
> Either sister should respond with the incorrect branch.<br>
<br>
</span>Key is to ask the other sister. I see this as two single-input logic<br>
gates in series. The honest sister's is non-inverting, the lieing<br>
sister's is inverting. The result is the same regardless of which one is<br>
first, and the answer is inverted. This is why I didn't think it's<br>
complex or compound. There are several ways to phrase the question.<br>
<br>
It reminds me of another riddle:<br>
<br>
A pretty maiden is held prisoner by a bad king. Walking through the<br>
court yard, covered in black and white stones, she says "it's boring<br>
here, I want out". The king responds "OK, I'll put a black and a white<br>
stone in a bag, and you can pick one. If it's the white one, I'll let<br>
you go". She observes the king putting two black stones into the bag.<br>
How does she get out?<br>
<br>
She takes one stone, and without anyone seeing it, drops it. Then she<br>
laments "how really foolish of me, but I have an idea: let's just look<br>
at the other stone".<br>
<br>
Key is again to ask one about the other, making the result dependent on<br>
both. Never mind the story.<br>
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Volker<br>
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