Don't Be Fooled!
Leprechauns are mischievous, so this one has mixed up the labels such that each pot is mislabelled. He will allow you to select a coin at random from one of the pots, and then you get to choose which of the three pots to take with you. In order to get the most gold, which pot do you select the random coin from?
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1 solution
(Since, all pots are misslabelled so the pot labelled "50 gold 50 silver" can not contain both types of coin so pot 2 must have one type of coin)
Selecting a coin from pot 2. if we get a gold coin then pot 2 contains 100 gold and we are done but if we get a silver coin then pot 2 contains 100 silver . Now, pot 1 labelled "gold" can't contain 100 gold (all pots are labelled wrong) so the remaining pot i.e pot 3 must contain 100 gold.