If I think of a number between 1 and 1,000, guessing it in 10 yes-no questions is easy... so that's not the puzzle!

Guessing it in 10 yes-no questions, that must be all asked in advance, is also relatively easy... so that's not the puzzle either!

How many questions would you need to guess my number, if you had to ask all questions beforehand, and I also could lie once?

Close, real close... but what would the other four questions be (if that's the correct number) and how would you determine when and where I lied (if I did)?

Posted by Federico Kereki on 2005-04-14 20:48:15