fnord_too
05-17-2005, 02:52 PM
I don't know if this is one that has been arround or not...
There is a completely isolated village where everyone sees everyone else every day. One day, a superior being (SB) comes to the village and offers to be their benefactor provided all the sinners leave. The villagers are agreeable, but they do not know who the sinners are (even the sinners themselves don't know they are sinners). The being places a mark on all the sinners foreheads in such a way as those marked have no idea they have been marked. There are no reflective surfaces in the village. No one will tell another villager they are marked. Once a villager knows he or she is marked, they will leave the following morning. Label the day the SB made the arrangement as day 0, and everyone saw each other on day zero after the arrangement was made.
On day five all the sinners (and only the sinners) left the village. How many sinners were there?
There is a completely isolated village where everyone sees everyone else every day. One day, a superior being (SB) comes to the village and offers to be their benefactor provided all the sinners leave. The villagers are agreeable, but they do not know who the sinners are (even the sinners themselves don't know they are sinners). The being places a mark on all the sinners foreheads in such a way as those marked have no idea they have been marked. There are no reflective surfaces in the village. No one will tell another villager they are marked. Once a villager knows he or she is marked, they will leave the following morning. Label the day the SB made the arrangement as day 0, and everyone saw each other on day zero after the arrangement was made.
On day five all the sinners (and only the sinners) left the village. How many sinners were there?