• go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
    76·
    1 year ago

    With how atrocious the quality of this is, this had to have been intentional at some point. Can we not hold ourselves to a higher standard than this?

  • Flushmaster@ttrpg.network
    26·
    1 year ago

    I’m amazed that none of these comments are mentioning the subject line of the post is a reference to “Stop! Hammer time!”

  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
    21·
    1 year ago

    This has the same solution as the original. You ask them “which door would your brother say leads to certain doom?” and then you take that door.

    • Archpawn@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      If you trust the guy telling you this, you can just ask him which door leads to certain doom. If not, you have no way of knowing if you’re in a knights and knaves puzzle.

  • dalekcaan@lemm.ee
    17·
    1 year ago

    “If I were to ask your brother what kind of butts he likes, how would he answer?”

    • SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year ago

      Am I missing something? If you ask brother A, he would say his brother likes small butts. If you ask brother B, he would also say his brother likes small butts. How do you differentiate?

      • dalekcaan@lemm.ee
        5·
        1 year ago

        It works the same as the original puzzle. If you ask the lying small butt brother, he’ll lie and say his brother would say he likes small butts. If you ask the truthful big butt brother, he’d say his brother would say he likes big butts, because he knows his brother likes small butts and would lie about it.

        Essentially the negatives work out so that each brother answers with the kind of butt they themselves like, which you can then use to determine which is truthful (though at this point that somehow seems less important).

        • SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 year ago

          I feel like the truthful brother would say his brother likes small butts, because that’s the truth.

          • dalekcaan@lemm.ee
            10·
            1 year ago

            Yes, but you’re not asking him what his brother likes, you’re asking him what he would say he likes, which is what flips it. You’re basically making sure the answer is a lie regardless of which brother you ask.

            • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
              7·
              1 year ago

              The truth is that the whole setup is moot if it’s one of the door-guards that tells you the rules, since they might be lying about the whole thing. There needs to be a trusted third-party involved, who knows about the guards but doesn’t know which one’s lying and which one’s telling the truth.

              • dalekcaan@lemm.ee
                5·
                1 year ago

                True. It seems there are different versions of the puzzle, but from a quick search it was popularized by the movie Labyrinth, and there they get around it by having a second set of guards who don’t know the answer explain the setup.

  • stingpie@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year ago

    “An anaconda that is sprung?” What does that mean?

  • Overforest@ttrpg.network
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’ve never liked it when the Two Brothers riddles are worded like this. Either the “always telling the truth” brother is the one saying the riddle, and you know who to ask which door is safe or its the “always lying” brother, in which you don’t know what the actual riddle is (as the one they just told you is a lie) and both doors probably lead to the certain death.

    (I should probably add that I get the refrence in the post, I’m just being nitpicky)

    • Worx@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Let’s not bring furries into this - not everyone likes looking at knots

  • erie09@lemmy.world
    61·
    1 year ago

    I am invisioning a snake coiled into a spring shape saying “dOn’T sTeP oN mE” and I really want to smash it

  • littleblue✨@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 year ago

    Calling someone a cock, and even rightfully so, does not make them a person.