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Psychic and the King
Situation
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.Situation
There was once a king of a foreign country. He had a psychic who always made fun of him when he wasn't around. The king heard the psychic one day. He was going to ask the psychic one more question and then kill him. The psychic finds out about his plan. He had to save himself somehow. The king asked him when he (the king) would die. The psychic gave an answer that saved his life. What answer did he give?
Answer
He said the king would die the day that he (the psychic) dies himself. The king wanted to live so he just left him alone.Hide Answer Show Answer
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that was good well done
I agree, very good
Good one, but who listens to psychics anyway?
i got that right
An alternative is to give the king a date in terms of his age, i.e. at age 100 years the king will die
Easy But Good Well Done :-)
This was easy, but i still liked it.
good good good good goood goood goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood 1!
Got this one right away. I think I'm catching on!
I got that! Well done whoever wrote it!
good one! But sadly im daft enough to not have gotten it
west-wizen, he's trying to save his *own* life, not the kings, so he tells him that the king will die when he dies, so if the king kills him, then the king will die as well.
I've seen this one before! (Not on Braingle, just...somewhere)
I thought the psychic said, "You will die when another person dies from your actions."
Now the king won't plot to kill anybody!!!
Now the king won't plot to kill anybody!!!
No_Eyed_Fsh's answer (the king will die when anyone dies as a result of his action) is very good, but a bit optimistic about the king.
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