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1,200 engineers couldn’t get this riddle. Can you??

April 17th, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

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Question:

A Tennessee man was in court to be sentenced for theft.
The judge told the man, “You may make a statement. If it is true, I’ll sentence you to five years in prison. If it is false, I’ll sentence you to ten years in prison.”
After the man made his statement, the judge decided to let him go free. What did the man say?

Answer:

He said, “You’ll sentence me to ten years in prison.” If it was true, then the judge would have to make it false by sentencing him to five years. If it was false, then he would have to give him ten years, which would make it true. Rather than contradict his own word, the judge set the man free.

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  1. Rhys
    April 18th, 2011 at 04:33 | #1

    good riddle :D

  2. Emmie
    April 21st, 2011 at 16:09 | #2

    was able to answer it in 10 seconds. :-)

  3. Bro
    April 30th, 2011 at 12:57 | #3

    So, to result, the judge gave the man 15 years in jail, being the summation of both 5 and 10.

  4. Corcoran
    May 14th, 2011 at 16:28 | #4

    And if it’s a paradox, you get a life sentence. Congratulations. :)

  5. my name is secret
    July 30th, 2011 at 07:14 | #5

    i dont get it :(

  6. jimbobthe7th
    August 16th, 2011 at 01:04 | #6

    Just like in real life…

  7. Mizuho
    September 11th, 2011 at 17:59 | #7

    “You’ll sentence me to ten years in prison.”

  8. danny
    October 28th, 2011 at 13:57 | #8

    i dont get it

  9. Ben Dover
    June 23rd, 2012 at 17:36 | #9

    1,200 people couldn’t give a flying fuck about this crap…

  10. WTFH
    November 3rd, 2012 at 03:48 | #10

    very good riddle