Saturday, October 08, 2005

The solution to the puzzle
The man who calls out is Number 2.

Why?
After a short time, Number 1 has not shouted out what colour hat he is wearing.
Because of this number 2 knows that he cannot be wearing the same colour hat as the person in front of him.
If he was then number 1 would see two black hats and would therefore know that his hat must be white.
Armed with the knowledge that :-
He isn't wearing the same colour hat as the man in front.
The man in front is wearing a black hat.
number two can confidently shout out that the hat he is wearing is white. Easy wasn't it!

1 comment:

Dizzy Dee said...

Wow - this was pretty cool!

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