Puzzles,conundrums, riddles and thoughts?

[Sidhe]

OK I'm sure there's another thread or section that covers this but I haven't noticed it?

Here's a little question.

The rules are when you've got it you put up another one:

To start.

A man is offered life or death: he must chose either a white or a black grape from a black bag supposedly containing either, if he picks the black grape he dies, if the white he lives, but he knows the judge has put two black grapes in the bag to screw him over? How can he live?

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Spoiler :

Grab a grape, and before anyone has a chance to see it, eat it. Then say that since the remaining grape is black, the one he picked must be white. Don't know, they might disqualify him for that.

 

[Rossiya]

There is a white grape in the bag, along with the two black grapes?

 

[Narz]

Yeah I like Eran's idea.

If the man is "offered" life or death why should he have to play their little game, can't he just choose to live?

He could try to remake the rules saying "I choose the grape I'm leaving in the bag", the judge would be too embarassed to admit he rigged the contest and be forced to concede.

 

[Perfection]

It's Eran's. I've seen this riddle before.

There is a white grape in the bag, along with the two black grapes?

No.

 

[WillJ]

What if the judge has no problem admitting he rigged the thing and killing the man?

 

[Perfection]

What if the judge has no problem admitting he rigged the thing and killing the man?

There's only one appropriate response:

 

[Gilder]

Black and white grapes? I would assume them to have gone bad, and therefore be hazardous to my health.

 

[Xanikk999]

Heres my answer, and i beileve its correct.

Spoiler :

Put your hand in the bag but pretend to grab a grape while you have nothing and say you have a white grape and take your hand out clenched in a fist.

 

[Perfection]

Black and white grapes? I would assume them to have gone bad, and therefore be hazardous to my health.

You'd be wrong!

 

[Gilder]

That's light green and purple, you fool, have you no sense of color coordination?

 

[Perfection]

That's light green and purple, you fool, have you no sense of color coordination?

"Black Grapes" and "white grapes" are varieties of grapes, not precise descriptions of thier color.

 

[JonnyB]

A man is offered life or death: he must chose either a white or a black grape from a black bag supposedly containing either, if he picks the black grape he dies, if the white he lives, but he knows the judge has put two black grapes in the bag to screw him over? How can he live?

Spoiler :

Pull out a gun, shoot the judge in the head and say "How do you like them grapes!"

 

[Gilder]

"Black Grapes" and "white grapes" are varieties of grapes, not precise descriptions of thier color.

Wiki agrees. I concede the point.

 

[Bill3000]

A man is offered life or death: he must chose either a white or a black grape from a black bag supposedly containing either, if he picks the black grape he dies, if the white he lives, but he knows the judge has put two black grapes in the bag to screw him over? How can he live?

Spoiler :

Argue that the black grape you have picked is not actually black, because it is not a perfect black body, by finding the intensity spectrum of the radiation emitted from the grape, and comparing the spectrum with a that of a theoretical black body of the same temperature.

 

[Perfection]

And while you're at it you could argue the same with the bag!

 

[Alan Bradely]

So who's putting up the next riddle?

 

[Perfection]

Well Eran had the solution.

 

[Narz]

Well Eran had the solution.

Just hope the man doesn't chew with his mouth open or

.

 

[azzaman333]

Just hope the man doesn't chew with his mouth open or

.

Or he ca chew with his mouth open and spit at the judge when proving the other grape was black too by cheating.