Nowadays we spend a lot of our free time watching television or looking at our social networks, but doing these activities does not exercise our brain.
Just like you need to exercise your body to keep it strong and healthy, you need to treat your brain like a muscle that requires a lot of training. To train it, we can use many logic games that will make this training more fun and enjoyable.
Try this great mind-blowing riddle about prisoners and hats. You are ready?
Four prisoners are given the option of getting out of jail if they guess the color of the hat they are wearing. They are in a row, all facing the same direction. The fourth is separated by a wall so the third and fourth men cannot see anyone. They are told that there are two black hats and two white hats.
They have some rules:
- They cannot move or turn.
- They can’t talk.
- They may not remove their hats at any time.
If everyone follows the rules, who is the first to speak up, and why?
Could you guess it?!
Solution: The second man.
The explanation is as follows: he only saw a black hat in front of him and since he knew that man 1 could see two hats, he should have called out its color if man 2 was also wearing the black hat.
Two black hats would mean that man 1 would be wearing a white one. But since man 1 didn’t say anything, the second man was able to deduce that he was wearing a white hat!
Have you solved it?
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