Can you solve the famously difficult green-eyed logic puzzle? – Alex Gendler
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One hundred green-eyed logicians have been imprisoned on an island by a mad dictator. Their only hope for freedom lies in the answer to one famously difficult logic puzzle. Can you solve it? Alex Gendler walks us through this green-eyed riddle.
Lesson by Alex Gendler, animation by Artrake Studio.
TLDR of answer: confirm that everyone else knows what they don’t know everyone else knows
What about “everyone you see around you has green eyes” hehe
at least 99 of u have green eyes isnt new information cuz they could see each other
Why not say ‘atleast 99 of you have green eyes’? That way everyone will figure out they have green eyes on the second day right?
If i was on an island with 99 other people who all had green eyes and i didn’t know mynown eye color, I’d just go ahead and assume