Hardest Riddle in the world

Logic Level 1

Three gods A, B, and C are called, in no particular order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A, B, and C by asking three yes-no questions; each question must be put to exactly one god. The gods understand English, but will answer all questions in their own language, in which the words for yes and no are da and ja, in some order. You do not know which word means which.

Yes I can solve it. It ain't possible to solve this, ya dummy

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5 solutions

This puzzle can be solved in 1 simple algorithm and 1 step.

I will ask God A to clearly say what is ja and da, and who are the others and who is he? I will bribe him a lot of money for this. If he doesn't accept it,

Repeat the same thing with Gods B and C \text{\large Repeat the same thing with Gods B and C} .

If nobody accepts the bribe, good you saved your money and what you got to do by asking their identities? Don't you know how they look? Wait what they got to do with the money? clear confusion

I know the solution, but as you have already written it in brief @Percy Jackson just did some fun!

Siddharth Chakravarty - 11 months ago

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LOL, this is pure awesome, nice one @Siddharth Chakravarty

LOL XD - This is a better solution than mine.

Haha! Very funny, dude Haha! Very funny, dude

Don't try to be sarcastic here, dude. You don't wanna mess with Persassy. @Siddharth Chakravarty

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I wull, yo can't stap mah!

Siddharth Chakravarty - 11 months ago

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Oh it is on, like Donkey Kong...... My sass is so sassy that I will sassily outsass you and you will lose your sass forevah!!! @Siddharth Chakravarty

Lol I liked how you used two options and one of them had both a sassy reply (answer) and a lack of punctuation.

Ash Ketchup - 3 months, 1 week ago
Dev Bhalavat
Jul 15, 2020

I knew I had seen this somewhere! 😎

Shane Sarosh - 6 months, 1 week ago

Lol I watched this years ago

Ash Ketchup - 3 months, 1 week ago

Wikipedia Reference

First, ask the god standing in the middle, "If I were to ask you if the god to your left is Random, would you say ja?"

If the god says ja, then there are two possibilities: either the god to his left is Random, and the god speaking is either True or False; or the god speaking is Random. Either way, you know the god to his right is not Random.

Similarly, if the god says da, then there are two possibilities: either the god to his right is Random, and the god speaking is True or False; or the god speaking is Random. In this case, you know the god to the left is not Random.

The next step is to approach the god that you know is not Random, and figure out if he is True or False. Because you still do not know the meanings of ja and da, you need to do this by using the same hypothetical structure, asking, "If I were to ask you if you are True, would you say ja?" If the god is True, they will answer ja. If the god is False, they will answer da. (False's response in this case is essentially either: "no I would not say yes," even though he would; or "yes I would say no," even though he wouldn't.)

Finally, now that you have identified a god as either True or False, you can use the same question structure one last time to identify the other gods (you need to stick to it because you still don't know the meanings of ja and da). Simply ask, "If I were to ask you if the god in the middle is Random, would you say ja?" If the answer is ja, then the god in the middle is Random, and the third god is either True or False (the opposite of the one you have already identified). If the answer is da, then the god in the middle is True or False, and the third god is Random.

Congratulations! You have identified the three gods despite their stubborn refusal to speak English. Interestingly enough, you must not waste a question to figure out what ja and da mean, otherwise you would not have enough questions left to identify all three gods. So you leave the archipelago that these gods rule over, and the knights and knaves who worship them, with promises of good fortune and prosperity.

This is funny cuz Percy Jackson is a demigod

Lâm Lê - 11 months ago

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Yes, Dolos is False (God of liars and deceptions), Apollo is Truth (obviously), and Tyche is Random (Goddess of chance) @Lin Le

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Wait a sec... you got this either from Wikipedia, and copied and pasted it (or just retype the whole thing), got this from a YouTube video, or just came up with it. If you retyped it from the Wikipedia page, then -_- next time ctrl c + v.

Ash Ketchup - 3 months, 1 week ago

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@Ash Ketchup I'm not stupid bruh, I copy/pasted from a website.

A Former Brilliant Member - 3 months, 1 week ago

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@A Former Brilliant Member Lol technology these days... :D

Ash Ketchup - 3 months, 1 week ago

Annabeth wrote this though. not me, I'm what mortals would call - mathematic failure, but ask me how I killed ol' beefy (the Minotaur) and I'll tell you :) @Lin Le

@Hamza Anushath , I used your trick, its great and it works!

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Wow, 1 day and I got - 246 views (100%)   147 attempts (60%)   121 solvers (49%)

This is like my most attempted problem, that is not part of the Mathathon 2020

The sad thing though, is that 18% of the people who attempted, got it wrong, as in selected the obviously wrong but hilarious option B

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I am one of the people who got it wrong LMFAO

Frisk Dreemurr - 5 months ago

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then you're a dummy lol

Minh Tran
Jul 15, 2020

Ted-ed did this... and I solved it too :P

Ya and I remember that they stayed this to be the hardest logic riddle but it is rated level 1.

Navanil Ghosh - 11 months ago

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Thats because I twisted the answers into whether its possible to solve it or not..... @Navanil Ghosh

Go to my Wikipedia link in my solution to see how giant the actual solution and logic stuff is.

Lâm Lê
Jul 15, 2020

There is a variation of this puzzle on YouTube at the channel TedEd

A variation? It is the same things with only name swaps.

Tom S - 11 months ago

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