hard riddles (31)

(god there is always one)
finish what he said...what is the color of his hat.
the answer is in the question

n he said .... 'Too late your time is up!!!!!!!'

not the king you fool
its a logic riddle, takes thinking not guessing.
beyond this site i think...
too many and

id be willing to bet theres more smilies on this forum than there is text

disclaimer: i wouldnt really be willing to bet

nope! gimme a mo .... had a colour answer last night but then started tinking too much! just workign out the reasonin again

k with wine last night i came up with blue to begin with as sage 1 saw other 2 wearing blue and 'From the look in their eyes he could see their thoughts were the same as his' .... but missed the line after - ie. "What is the colour of my hat?"

that seemed too easy (and it was as its a wrong deduction) then just reckoned they all took too long so were screwed anyways

cant give a proof to it now as i read it wrong to begin with ..... so have to give up didn't sleep well last night so heads not working today

n btw dont call me a fool ... ya muppet!

right its like this..
you have 3 sets of eyes to look out from, as the 3 lads are as stumped as the one that speaks up..

if there was only one blue hat, then the lad wearing it would see two white hats on the others head thus deducting he had the blue(as stated there are not 3 white hats)



if there were exactly two blue hats.
then two people wearing them would see one blue and one white hat. These two people will very quickly, by virtue of the other's silence, rule out the possibility that there is only one blue hat. One of these two lads would cry blue within a few short minutes

There is only one case which forces the three lads to sit in silence - three blue hats. Our lad, through his sharp wits was the first to reach this conclusion

each lad thinks he has either white or blue, so he sits there, its the fact that they all wait that gives it away

had all that dedcution crap but couldn't get the conclusion from the time thing .... me slow today!


btw can you get these? w/o the answers i mean????

yes i can, i dont read the answers until i give it a go