The Annoying Boxes Puzzle
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(disregard the coincidental blog title)
The Universe of Discourse : The annoying boxes puzzle: solution
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
There are two boxes on a table, one red and one green. One contains a treasure. The red box is labelled "exactly one of the labels is true". The green box is labelled "the treasure is in this box."
Can you figure out which box contains the treasure?
I was annoyed.
The very simple solution to this puzzle is: you can't tell.
The treasure can be in either box and the labels are completely irrelevant to this fact.
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@Zecc Reminds me of the Philosophy 101 class I had to take an Incomplete in. Seems that during a homework exercise, I accidentally proved my professor didn't exist.
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@da-Doctah did the professor disappear in a puff of logic?
