Which Door To Take?

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Kyle, Neal, and Grant find themselves trapped in a dark and cold dungeon (HOW they arrived there is another story). After a quick search the boys find three doors, the first one red, the second one blue, and the third one green. Behind one of the doors is a path to freedom. Behind the other two doors, however, is an evil fire-breathing dragon. Opening a door to the dragon means almost certain death. On each door there is an inscription:

Red door: Freedom is behind this door

Blue door: Freedom is not behind this door

Green door: Freedom is not behind the blue door

Given the fact that at LEAST ONE of the three statements on the three doors is true and at LEAST ONE of them is false, which door would lead the boys to safety?

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11 solutions

Ly Yin Lim
Jul 28, 2014

If the inscription on the red door were true, the others would also be true. If the blue door were the path to freedom, all inscriptions would be false. Therefore, the answer is green door.

Rohit Begani
Jul 21, 2014

The lines are: Red: Freedom is behind this door. Blue: Freedom is not behind this door. Green: Freedom is not behind the blue door.

To solve this we take multiple cases: First: Inscription on red door is true in that case next two cases must be false, but this option does not give us a sure answer. Second: In this case we consider the inscription on blue to be true then third would also be true but this also does not give a specific answer. Third: In this case let us assume that inscription on green is true and also that on red is false then the answer would be GREEN.

Therefore the answer is GREEN door.

If red is true wouldn't green also be true?

Green says that freedom is not behind the blue door, so assuming red is true (as in your first case) that would mean that freedom is behind the red door, making greens statement correct.

Jean-Pierre Sargusingh - 6 years, 10 months ago

but then blue's statement cant b proved false...@Jean-Pierre Sargusingh

Anmol Bhatia - 6 years, 10 months ago
Vishal Barman
Aug 4, 2014

Assume Freedom is behind the red door. All three doors would then have true statements which we know is not possible since one of them must be false.

Assume Freedom is behind the blue door. All three doors would then have false statements which we know is not possible since one of them must be true.

Freedom is therefore behind the green door. The blue door and the green door have true statements and the red door has a false statement

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Saya Suka
Feb 22, 2021

Blue and Green are saying the same thing, so the two doors must have the same truth values. Since we're told that "at LEAST ONE of the three statements on the three doors is true and at LEAST ONE of them is false", then Red must have the opposite truth value than the others.

Since the path to freedom is only through one door, then we can't change a supposedly false non-freedom door into being the second supposedly true freedom door, so it's definitely the case of a False Red door against 2 True doors.

Then, the scenario at hand is that the freedom door is neither the Red one (which lied about being one) nor the Blue one (which told the truth about it not being one), so therefore the real path to freedom must lies behind the Green Door.

Annie W.
Feb 22, 2015

Situation A-red door is true. Therefore, the green door is also true (freedom is not behind the blue door). Furthermore, the blue door is also true. However, there must be at least ONE false statement, and therefore the red door is not true. If the red door is true, logic breaks.

Situation B-blue door is true Therefore, the green door is also true. Red door we can assume is false, since there must be at least one false statement and because of Situation A's result. The only door left is the green one. If the blue door is true, then the green door leads to freedom.

Situation C-green door is true Therefore, the blue door is also true. In addition to this, the red door can either be true or false, but we'll assume it's false because of the reasons mentioned above. The only door left, once again, is the green one. If the green door is true then it leads to freedom.

Alternative solution: Have the boys each walk through a different door. This way at least one of them will survive. After all,

Opening a door to dragon means almost certain death.

(italics mine) so the unlucky boys might be able to survive.

The logic to the problem analogy is very much simple. Given that the amongst the three statements ,atleast one in True and atleast one is False,which implies 1) we can have two true statements and a false statement
OR 2)we can have two false statements and a true statement

Right ?? Yes ..

Drawing out conclusion from the truth values of each statement gives the result

T ->Truth F-False

RED   |   BLUE     |  GREEN   |      CONCLUSION

1) T | T | F SInce Green and Blue statements are contradictory,the freedom door might be Red or green .Lets see another case....

2) T F F The freedom door might be red or green ..Not blue because the green and blue's statement do not contradict

3) T F T if the green is speaking truth,but you see blue's statement is a contradictory to blue's statement.the freedom door might be red or green.

4) F T T Green's and Blue's Statement do not contradict with each other.Chances are the freedom door might be green or blue

5) F T F green's statement is false.but blue's statement is correct a conflict between the two.the freedom door might be in green

6) F F T if green is speaking the truth,then blue statement must be a truth but here its a contradiction.The door might be green

Evidences that shows that Red is the freedom door : 3 Evidences that shows that Blue is the freedom door : 1 Evidences that shows that Green is the freedom door: 6

So Pretty much I would go for Green

Amrithaa Ranjith
Nov 7, 2014

Both green and blue says freedom is not behind the blue door.. So red door's statement s false.. So result of these two leads to green door.

Mahendra Aanjna
Jul 23, 2014

It is very simple logic Green signal is always sign of good . Inscription on red door is true in that case next two cases must be false, but this option does not give us a sure answer . In this case we consider the inscription on blue to be true then third would also be true but this also does not give a specific answer . Therefore Green is correct

Henrique Ribeiro
Jul 21, 2014

Red door is false. Blue door won't lead them to safety. Green door is correct.

Rishu Agarwal
Jul 20, 2014

Consider Blue & Green door statements are correct and Red door is false. All other possibility will give absurd answer.

if you choose the red door to be correct then either blue or green will be incorrect which is not possible since the dragon is behind 2 doors if you choose the blue door to be correct then either of the red or green may be false if you choose the red to be false(door with the dragon) then green becomes true(freedom door) which leads to 2 statements being false which is also impossible because only 1 statement is false and if you choose the green to be false(freedom door) then red becomes the door with dragon which again leads to 2 statements being false so green door only remains as an alternative.

Gordon Freeman - 6 years, 10 months ago
Ivan Koswara
Jul 15, 2014

The statements on blue and green doors necessarily have the same truth value, so we only have two statements. From the given assumption, we need one to be correct and the other incorrect.

If the statement on red door is correct, then the statement on blue door is incorrect, and thus freedom is behind two doors, red and blue. This is impossible. So the statement on red door is incorrect and the statement on blue door is correct.

Thus freedom is not behind red door (red door has incorrect statement), not behind blue door (blue door has correct statement), and thus must be behind green door .

I clicked Green door as the answer, but it said to me ‘you did not solve the problem. The correct answer is Green door’ I guess the computer thought I clicked another one...?

Scarlett Red - 6 years, 11 months ago

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nope it must be a problem with brilliant

Anish Mukherjee - 6 years, 11 months ago

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yeah happened to me too

David Lee - 6 years, 11 months ago

At least I'm not the only one.

Toni Knight - 6 years, 6 months ago

Although using our logic we can find the correct answer is the green door, but a friend of mine said that: He chose green door because this is the color of luck???

Dang Anh Tu - 6 years, 11 months ago

if you consider statement on green door as correct one then freedom be behind blue door.

Brahmam Meka - 6 years, 11 months ago

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If the statement on green door is correct, freedom is not behind the blue door.

Ivan Koswara - 6 years, 11 months ago

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late post

Red door: Freedom is behind this door

Blue door: Freedom is not behind this door

Green door: Freedom is not behind the blue door

red is wrong and using Brahmam logic (comparison with green not blue as Ivan said)

Red door: Freedom is NOT behind this door

Blue door: Freedom is NOT not behind this door == Freedom is behind this door

Green door: Freedom is not behind the blue door

therefore i think this question not have enough data

Alvin Irawan - 6 years, 10 months ago

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