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Hmm I am not sure about this one. With 2 couples it goes: Both women know that the other man has cheated but they don't know if their own has. So when the que
by globalrev 18y ago
Hmm I am not sure about this one.
With 2 couples it goes:
Both women know that the other man has cheated but they don't know if their own has.
So when the queen says one has cheated at first they don't kill their husbands becuase it could be the other one.
But if the other woman didn't know the others man had cheated the cheater had to be their own but since she didn't she must know the other has cheated.
So they will both kill their husband after figuring that out.
But i am not sure this is the same for 3 and more couples.
Can they make the same deduction? If the queen said that 99 other men had cheated, yes, but 1? I don't see it.
- jcl 18y agoIt does indeed extend to three or more, as others have outlined above. For three couples: On the first day, nothing happens, which surprises no one, since all the wives know there are multiple guilty parties. On the second day, nothing happens again. A wife reasons: "If my husband were innocent, then the other two wives would see only each other's husbands as cheaters, which is the same situation as if me and my husband were not on the island at all. By the logic of the two-cheating-couple case, they should then have killed their husbands today. Since they did not, my husband must have cheated, too." Thus, all the wives kill their husbands on the third day. The logic extends easily to more couples.