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[005] jormis29 Current Version
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If just you ask the lying guard \"does the door lead where I want\" and he is guarding the correct door, he would say no but if you ask the \"If I asked you if the door you\'re guarding leads to where I want to go, would you say \'yes\'?\", he would have to say the opposite so it is a lie and vice versa
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If you are asking the lying guard he would have to lie about what he would actually say
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It works if you ask the lying guard too since he says the opposite of what he say if you just asked him what is he guarding
* If just you ask the lying guard \"does the door lead where I want\" and he is guarding the correct door, he would say no but if you ask the \"If I asked you if the door you\'re guarding leads to where I want to go, would you say \'yes\'?\", he would have to say the opposite so it is a lie and vice versa
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That solution only fails if you have only one question, if you have multiple you can figure out who is the untruthful guard then ask what they are guarding

If you can only as one question, you ask the guard what the other guard would say they are guarding (
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If you are asking the lying guard he would have to lie about what he would actually say
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If you can only as one question, you ask the guard what the other guard would say they are guarding (
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If you can only as one question, you ask the guard what the other guard would say they are guarding (\"would the other guard say is he guarding the correct door?\") and the answer you would get would always be the opposite of what the other guard is actually guarding.
* The lying guard would know that the truthful guard would say what he is actually guarding and say the opposite so it is a lie
* The truthful guard knows that the lying guard would say the opposite of what he is actually guarding and relay that exactly to the questioner

This is out lined in \"The second most common solution\" paragraph
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If you can only as one question, you ask the guard what the other guard would say they are guarding (
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If you can only as one question, you ask the guard what the other guard would say they are guarding (\"would the other guard say is he guarding the gold?\") and the answer you would get would always be the opposite of what the other guard is actually guarding.
* The lying guard would know that the truthful guard would say what he is actually guarding and say the opposite so it is a lie
* The truthful guard knows that the lying guard would say the opposite of what he is actually guarding and relay that exactly to the questioner

This is out lined in \"The second most common solution\" paragraph
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