Wednesday, May 25

Riddle

General Gasslefield, accused of high treason, is sentenced to death by the court-martial. He is allowed to make a final statement, after which he will be shot if the statement is false or will be hung if the statement is true. Gasslefield makes his final statement and is released.

The Question: What could he have said?

7 comments:

Luke said...

He did say something: Notice the last sentence of the riddle. "Gasslefield makes his final statement..."

Anonymous said...

Thats too easy Luke. :)

Brandon

Luke said...

Brandon, I'm still waiting for an email with the answer.

If no one gets it today, I'll post the answer tomorrow morning.

Luke said...

by the way, he is Gasslefield. His statement is one that prevents them from killing him.

Luke said...

Britni (sp?) got it with a small hint. The hint I gave was this:

It has something to do with him saying something about how he's killed.

She's the first one to get the correct answer without looking it up. Go Brit!

Luke said...

Sarah was the second one. I'm impressed. I'll admit, I had to look at the answer.

Luke said...

Jake Leman nailed it too. :)

the answer is:

The general's last statement is, "I will be shot." If they take this statement to be true they'll hang him, making the statement false which means they should've shot him, which would make the statement true meaning they should hang him...etc. He got off on a technicallity.