Contest [Issue 35] Test Your Intellect! [2nd edition]

[Eclipse_XXX 4]

There are three tanks in front of you: two Vikings and  Dictator. However, you are blindfolded, so you cannot see which one is which.

 

You can ask one yes-no question to any one of the three tanks. If you ask the question to a Viking, he will answer your question truthfully. If you ask the question to the Dictator, he will answer randomly (he could answer yes or no).

 

What single question can you ask to identify, with certainty, the location of one of the Vikings?

If my answer is based on the three Tanks being in a row like this: Viking Dictator Viking. and my answer is correct will it count?

 

A group of Wasp-Smokys are stranded on Island, with assorted coloured paints. They are all perfect logicians - if a conclusion can be logically deduced, they will do it instantly. Each of them can see out of his own muzzle, but cannot see himself. This means each can see the colour paint of everyone else, but does not know the colour of his own tank. Every night at midnight, a ferry stops at the island, to take the tanks to safety. But, there is a catch. Tanks can only leave the island if they know what colour paint they have. Other than sight, they cannot communicate (being tanks of course). There are no mirrors, reflecting surfaces on the island, and everyone knows the rules in this paragraph.

 

On this island, there are 20 white coloured tanks, and 20 black coloured tanks, although the tanks do not know this. So any given white tank can see 19 white tanks and 20 black tanks, but this doesn't tell himself what colour he has. For all he knows, he could have a black paint and there are 21 black tanks in total, or he could have a red, or orange paint.

 

Suddenly, on one day, a booming voice calls from the sky, and shouts:

 

"There is a white tank on the island"

 

Who leaves, and on which following night?

Can they look into the water? if so that changes the answer a lot.

[Eclipse_XXX 4]

If my answer is based on the three Tanks being in a row like this: Viking Dictator Viking. and my answer is correct will it count?

 

Can they look into the water? if so that changes the answer a lot.

Nvm,no reflective surfaces. (It is a floating island and a flying ferry comes to pick the tanks up)

[Eclipse_XXX 4]

and there is no ONE correct answer to the first question (Many possible outcomes can happen if i ask the dictator instead of the viking)

[shadowbang10 16]

The truth is you don't know the answer! Lol.

Yeah, agreed. 

[HELGANSRULE 1]

There are three tanks in front of you: two Vikings and  Dictator. However, you are blindfolded, so you cannot see which one is which.

 

You can ask one yes-no question to any one of the three tanks. If you ask the question to a Viking, he will answer your question truthfully. If you ask the question to the Dictator, he will answer randomly (he could answer yes or no).

 

What single question can you ask to identify, with certainty, the location of one of the Vikings?

Does it mean that i can ask the same question from all the tanks?