Truth and Lie Puzzle

In Truth and Lie Puzzle, there are two tribes on Mars

Truth and Lie

In Truth and Lie Puzzle, there are two tribes on Mars, the Lie tribe and Truth Tribe. (Lie tribe always speaks lie, True tribe always speaks the truth.) You meet three mars people and ask –

First Person: What tribe you belong to? (He replies with something in his language which you don’t understand.)

Second person – He is saying that he belongs to Lie Tribe.

Third-person – Second person is lying.

What tribe does the third person belong to?

Truth and Lie

In Truth and Lie Puzzle, there are two tribes on Mars, the Lie tribe and Truth Tribe. (Lie tribe always speaks lie, True tribe always speaks the truth.) You meet three mars people and ask –

First Person: What tribe do you belong to? (He replies with something in his language which you don’t understand.)

Second person – He is saying that he belongs to Lie Tribe.

Third-person – Second person is lying.

What tribe does the third person belong to?

In Truth and Lie Puzzle, there are two tribes on Mars

Solution

Truth and Lie Puzzle

Here we have solution for Truth and Lie puzzle – 

The trick is to start from the first person.

  • Let us assume that the first person is from the Truth tribe, then he will say that I am from the truth tribe. In this case, the second person is lying.
  • Now assume that the first person is from the Lie tribe, then also he will say that I belong to the truth tribe(as he is a liar). In this case, the second person is lying again.
  • Thus the third person is correct in both the scenarios, and he belongs to Truth Tribe.

Solution

Here we have the solution for Truth and Lie Puzzle – 

The trick is to start from the first person.

  • Let us assume that the first person is from the Truth tribe, then he will say that I am from the truth tribe. In this case, the second person is lying.
  • Now assume that the first person is from the Lie tribe, then also he will say that I belong to the truth tribe(as he is a liar). In this case, the second person is lying again.
  • Thus the third person is correct in both scenarios, and he belongs to Truth Tribe.
Truth and Lie Puzzle

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