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- Subject: Re: Need puzzle help: eye colour enigma
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.100324.1@cc.uvcc.edu>
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- Organization: Utah Valley Community College
- References: <1993Jan19.143459.13275@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:03:24 GMT
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- > There is an island,on which there are 100 blue eyed people and 100 brown
- > eyed people. The people, however, do not know the number of people with
- > each eye colouring. No-one knows their own eye colour, as there is no means
- > of reflection, and no-one will tell anyone else their eye colour, since as
- > soon as someone knows their own eye colour, they kill themselves 24 hours
- > later.
- > Once every 100 years, a green-eyed guru speaks to the populus, and today's
- > the day (quite by chance). S/he stands on a rise, looking out over all these
- > people (who don't know their own eyecolour), and announces: "I can see
- > someone with blue eyes"
- >
- > Who kills themselves, and when???
-
- I'm not sure who does it, but I think it has to do with filtered
- eye-color. Like one persons eye-color affects the way they see colors?
- Just an idea...
- Earl
-