{"id":7413,"date":"2012-11-06T01:40:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T05:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7413"},"modified":"2012-11-12T11:39:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T15:39:26","slug":"4-men-4-hats-1-life-or-death-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7413","title":{"rendered":"4 Men &#038; 4 Hats = 1 Life or Death Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2012\/z110612hat_puzzle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a pretty cool little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycoted.com\/4_men_in_hats\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>brain teaser from MyCoted.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I wish I could say that I figured it out before checking the answer. \u00a0Well, I could say it, but it wouldn&#8217;t be true. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Shown above are four men buried up to their necks in the ground. They cannot move, so they can only look forward.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Between A and B is a brick wall which cannot be seen through. They all know that between them they are wearing four hats&#8211;two black and two white&#8211;but they do not know what color they are wearing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Each of them know where the other three men are buried.In order to avoid being shot, one of them must call out to the executioner the color of their hat. If they get it wrong, everyone will be shot. They are not allowed to talk to each other and have 10 minutes to fathom it out. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">After one minute, one of them calls out.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong>\u00a0Which one of them calls out? Why is he 100% certain of the color of his hat?\u00a0<em>This is not a trick question.<\/em>\u00a0There are no outside influences nor other ways of communicating. They cannot move and are buried in a straight line; A &amp; B can only see their respective sides of the wall, C can see B, and D can see B &amp; C.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycoted.com\/4_men_in_hats\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for the answer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a pretty cool little brain teaser from MyCoted.com. \u00a0 I wish I could say that I figured it out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7413"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7444,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions\/7444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}