Brain Buster

[Davros]

"Yer goin straight to hell for that one", but not if you take the door that says it's leadin there

[johnny]

i went into the woods with Horatio ? When did that happen ? I think i'm gonna go and drink a couple of beers first, that way i can think better as proven in one of Aviendha's earlier threads.

Originally posted by johnny: i went into the woods with Horatio ? When did that happen ? I think i'm gonna go and drink a couple of beers first, that way i can think better as proven in one of Aviendha's earlier threads.

Go get'em Johnny! Honest, it works!

[LennonCook]

Originally posted by Davros: "Yer goin straight to hell for that one", but not if you take the door that says it's leadin there

Note that the puzzle asked for "Which and Why"... unless you give both; I won`t say if you`re right or not...

[Davros]

Originally posted by LennonCook: quote: Originally posted by Davros: "Yer goin straight to hell for that one", but not if you take the door that says it's leadin there

Note that the puzzle asked for "Which and Why"... unless you give both; I won`t say if you`re right or not... [/QUOTE]Your quote, using logic, suggests that my reasoning is correct. I expect that if I was wrong you would have been pleased to have told me . I think you are just testing the water to see if I can back up my answer with the proper reasoning . We both know Lennon, that the answer is right, and why. I just thought you would have preferred my deliberately vague answer so as to see if you could catch someone else out .

[LennonCook]

Originally posted by Davros: Your quote, using logic, suggests that my reasoning is correct. I expect that if I was wrong you would have been pleased to have told me . I think you are just testing the water to see if I can back up my answer with the proper reasoning . We both know Lennon, that the answer is right, and why. I just thought you would have preferred my deliberately vague answer so as to see if you could catch someone else out .

Ok, time to find something more difficult then... hmm...
Ah yes;

A rotten apple,
Freshly fallen snow,
A library book,
The sky.

What am I ??

A FAT W (reading the first letters of each line down).
I know its wrong [img]graemlins/1dizzy.gif[/img] lol, but I still want to know the "why" part of the heaven & hell door one

[Davros]

Originally posted by LennonCook: A knight dies and comes to two doors. One leads to heaven, the other to hell. They both look exactly the same in every way bar the inscriptions. On the first door; One or both of these inscriptions is false. On the second door; This door leads to hell. The inscriptions may be true or false. Assuming he wants to go to heaven, which door should he take and why ??

LOL - AFAT was one of the first things I looked at too - now for an explanation for Princess :

The inscriptions can be true or false - first step for all Chemical Engineering problems - assume a basis and start solving the problem .

Let's assume that the first inscription is true - if it is true, then one of the inscriptions is false, and by the basis of the assumption it can only be the other one.

If we assume the the first statement is false we don't get any meaningful result. You can't simply imply from the first statement that one or both are true, because you don't know the basis of the falseness - you anly know there is falsity in the statement. Only one of the 4 basic assumptions yields a definative meaningful result - the others are confuddled.

I will have to get back to you on your new puzzle Lennon

Originally posted by Davros: Let's assume that the first inscription is true - if it is true, then one of the inscriptions is false, and by the basis of the assumption it can only be the other one.

This is how I first saw the puzzle but then I confused myself by thinking further on it (thinking it should be more complicated somehow) and ended up confused enough to be afraid to make a guess rather than a choice
Thank you for expanding on the logic and good luck with that fat w
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[Calaethis Dragonsbane]

heres my answer to that heavens/hell thing; open BOTH doors; just DONT step though, until u can see where each one leads