Lions, Tigers, and Logic -- Oh My!

Logic Level 1

In the jungle, the lion lies every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, but tells the truth every other day. Similarly, the tiger lies every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, but tells the truth every other day.

One day, the lion says, "Yesterday, I was lying."
The tiger then says, "So was I."

What day was this?

Monday Sunday Thursday Wednesday

View wiki
Daniel Patten by Daniel Patten , 27, Ireland

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

3 solutions

Daniel Patten
Oct 26, 2015

The only correct answer here is that the the animals were speaking on Thursday. On this day, the lion is telling the truth, as he was lying the day before; Wednesday. The tiger on the other hand, is in this instance, lying about having being lying. As it is Thursday, it is the first day that the tiger is lying, and he is saying that he was also lying on Wednesday, which is of course the last day when he is telling the truth.

4 Helpful 0 Interesting 0 Brilliant 0 Confused

"I'm always lion" ...thank you, thank you

James Craver - 5 years, 7 months ago

This is great

Jonathan Akuchie - 5 years, 5 months ago
Munem Shahriar
Jun 8, 2017

There are no way both are lying on a same day. Only on of them must be speaking truth.

If both are speaking the truth then it must be Sunday But lion's statement is false because he don't lie on Saturday. Only one of them lying

If either lion or tiger is speaking truth then tiger's statement is true, it must be only Sunday.

The lion spoke the truth Thursday as he is lying on Wednesday. Though the tiger is speaking the truth on Wednesday , he lied on Thursday.

Therefore the day was Thursday

1 Helpful 0 Interesting 0 Brilliant 0 Confused
Mubarak Shakil
Oct 28, 2015

Here Lion said truth and tiger said false.... Thursday is only that day when Lion said truly yesterday(Wednesday) was lying. but That day tiger said lying.

0 Helpful 0 Interesting 0 Brilliant 0 Confused

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...