Hat Riddle Black And White. The answer. The strategy is to count the number of white and black hats in front of them and say white if number of white hats are odd else say black.
And if prisoner Y can see that prisoner Z is wearing a white hat then prisoner Y knows that he himself must be wearing a black hat. The Riddle Youd Have To Be A Genius To Solve. The aliens line you up placing you in order of height tallest in the back shortest in.
However if they take part and one of them gives a wrong answer or none of them can work out the answer at all then their sentences will be doubled.
The criminals are wearing hats. If prisoner 1 observes that prisoners 2 and 3 have the same coloured hats he. If both were black he would have known his hat must be white because both black hats would have been accounted for and therefore would have said my hat is white. If C could not guess the color of his own hat that is because he saw either two white hats or one of each color.
