You are at one end of a hall blindfolded. At the other end are Alex and Bert. You are allowed to ask any yes or no questions you want, but only one of them will respond. They are standing next to each other and their voices are identical, so you have no way of telling which one responded by sound alone.

Using as few questions as possible, find out the type of each Alex and Bert and who answered your last question.

(In reply to another try by rerun141)

my solution works if you understand the problem a certain way. when i read where it says "only one of them will respond" i thought it meant only one will respond to both questions, as if the other one doesn't want to talk to you.
Edited on December 30, 2003, 6:16 pm

Posted by donnmike on 2003-12-30 17:58:51