An ordinator catches you at a crime he gives you two options
1:Tell a lie and i shall slay you my sword
2:Tell the truth and i shall slay you with my magic
what will you say
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riddle from the red riddle book
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IHateUsernames
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ive never played this game but i know this thing from a story my grandfather told me.
A soldier has been captured by the enemy and is to be executioned at dawn. He can chose how he wants to die. If he tell a lie he will hanged and if he tells the truth he will be shot. What should he say to avoid being killed?
A soldier has been captured by the enemy and is to be executioned at dawn. He can chose how he wants to die. If he tell a lie he will hanged and if he tells the truth he will be shot. What should he say to avoid being killed?
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The first 100 digits of PI: 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679
Death is life's way of telling you, you're fired.
Just how much can i get away with, and still go to heaven?
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
If I had only known, I would have become a locksmith.
- Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by IHateUsernames
A soldier has been captured by the enemy and is to be executioned at dawn. He can chose how he wants to die. If he tell a lie he will hanged and if he tells the truth he will be shot. What should he say to avoid being killed?
Well, tell us then!
What's the answer?
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Originally posted by Enchantress
Well, tell us then!
What's the answer?
If you have completed the Tribunal Temple quests, you will remember that you had this riddle as one of 3 with the atronachs. I have read the explanation, and still don't understand the answer.
The other puzzling part is: what is the question you must answer by lying or truth telling, and how does the questioner know whether you are lying or truth telling? ANSWER THAT - HAH HAH!
SPOILER: The simple answer is lie because if you tell the truth you will die. The lie sets up some kind of contradiction that saves you.
per ardua ad astra
the first sacrifice of survival is conscience
the first sacrifice of survival is conscience
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Originally posted by Enchantress
Well, tell us then!
What's the answer?
Sorry.
He should say "Hang me". If they hang him he tells the truth and therefore have to be shot. But if they shoot him, he told a lie and has to be hanged.
And so on.
Est Sularus Oth Mithas
Yu ckoup Uryuomoco
The first 100 digits of PI: 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679
Death is life's way of telling you, you're fired.
Just how much can i get away with, and still go to heaven?
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
If I had only known, I would have become a locksmith.
- Albert Einstein
Yu ckoup Uryuomoco
The first 100 digits of PI: 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679
Death is life's way of telling you, you're fired.
Just how much can i get away with, and still go to heaven?
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
If I had only known, I would have become a locksmith.
- Albert Einstein