indians

[simo]

a man was walking down a path in the rainforest. he comes to a y in the road. he knows that down on road their is a friendly village where the people always tell the truth, but also there is a village where the people always lie and the village are cannibels. suddenly he see an old man sitting on the side of the road, he doesnt know if the man is from the good, truth telling village or bad liers village. the man gives him one question to ask, to find out the good village. what question should he ask

[Sylday]

"IF I were to ask you which road leads to the truth-telling village what would you answer." Whatever the old man replies, that is the road.

[simo]

ok or else which is your village, if hes from the truth telling etc , if hes from the liers hell point u to the good but well done on a slightly different version

[gerry]

If the old guy is from the people that tells lies & this guy asks him "If i were to ask you which road leads to the truth-telling village what would you answer" because this guy lies he will point to the road were the guy will be killed.So how is the first answer correct?.

[simo]

well spotted gerry, ur correct, first answer is wrong. gets bloody confusing

[Sylday]

Sorry, but gerry has missed the point. Suppose the old man is a liar. If you ask him directly which is the road to the truthful village, he will lie and point to the wrong one. So when you ask him what he would have said if you'd asked him, he will again lie, and point to the correct one.

[jeffB]

Simple! he says "if I asked a man from the other village whether his was the friendly village or the cannibAl village, what would he say? It's that old faithful trick, the double negative, in another disguise...

[Closer]

surely if he's from the bad village you'll know by the fact that he's chewing on your leg ?

[simo]

closer a plane crashed the day before so all the cannibels had already eaten.

[MC HP]

Wasn't this situation in Labarynth?

[blakerica]

simply ask "where can i find a good plate of people parts"?