Riddle For Genius - When Does The Thief Tell The Truth?

[@MindYourDecisions]

I originally posted the puzzle with Day 3 being "OR Friday." Here's a little problem for you: try to work that case out. (It's actually significantly easier than "AND Friday.") Here's the original video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaGqfHSJi7Nqd5Y *I was half tempted to say I intended this mistake--like some KZbin math channels say each video has an intentional mistake. But I don't make excuses and I would rather be honest with you. I hope you'll grade me on a curve and give me some partial credit for my answer. (I did remember to spell thief correctly!) This was a hard one for me, so I know it will be hard for others, and I hope to share my own learning experience with mathematics so others will be inspired to keep trying.

[@TheOfficialCzex]

Thank you for being honest, Presh. We appreciate the effort you put in to make things right.

[@thezeusist906]

Enjoyed solving this puzzle ...logic problems are my favorite

[@patrickng8974]

Lie on Wed or Friday. This statement must be true since he only tells the truth on one day.

[@patrickng8974]

@D.J. I think it has got to depend on the probability of raining. Actually, I got exactly the same answer of 8p/(1+7p) before I watched the video.

[@pritshah3119]

Can day 1 be Tuesday Which is a lir Day 2 on Wednesday Wich will also be lie as the truth day is Thursday And day 3 be Thursday which is true

[@miroslavmicka8681]

You bring Maths to the level when it's just fun and I like it

[@aleksandervadla4840]

Malfaro Malfaro no. He is noob

[@RealitaetsverweigererDerAmpel]

@@aleksandervadla4840 hdf

[@pepehimovic3135]

hdf = German(stfu) The more you know

[@xpr0gidy]

i tried to brute force it and instead i got arrested edit: apparently “brute forcing” it does not mean beating up a mathematician until he gives you the answer. that would’ve been nice to know

[@Anon101sss]

😂

[@dcgreatman]

The fact that this is actually edited 😂

[@glowstonelovepad9294]

r/cursedcomments

[@jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821]

and im the king of pluto

[@micka6288]

Warm up is Saturday, because the remaining 6 days are 2 times 3 symmetric cases contradicting the uniqueness of the solution. If 'Day 1' and 'Day 3' are both lies he tells truth on 2 days each week which he don't. If 'Day 1' is true it must correspond to Wednesday or Friday, but in both cases 'Day 2' will be true. Hence 'Day 3' is true, and it must correspond to Monday or Tuesday. 'Day 2' is true if 'Day 3' is Monday, so Tuesday is the only possible correct answer, and can be confirmed.

[@zachcioe5803]

I solved the warmup that same way.

[@himanshuyadav3734]

Me too

[@pundaleekanawal8709]

Same here

[@anettanagey994]

Confusion 😛

[@mightybatillo]

There are two kind of people: 1: Let me think about this puzzle for 20 min to get the answer 2: Fk it, im going to brute force it doing all possibilitys !

[@technorazor976]

Or you can do it in your head in a couple minutes, if you had practice with these kinds of problems before.

[@ArduousNature]

You work it out by 'brute forcing' though

[@jomillen5131]

I kinda did both. 1, but some furious scribbles which helped me work out the answer.

[@thehuntermikipl1170]

Actually three kinds. 3. Just watches the solution.

[@pietergeerkens6324]

There just two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete information

[@frankie391]

I just realized this is the first time I’ve managed to solve the problem without Presh’s help. My solution is a little bit different tho, but it worked :D

[@peternordel]

I usually struggle with your videos, but not this one! Thanks for the confidence boost LOL

[@pascaldelcombel7564]

Please continue on that excellent job. This kind of videos could help and help people that " don't like math " to approach concepts from the funny and intelligent way of yours.

[@MrGeorge1896]

I COULD solve the puzzle with pen and paper but I believe your explanation is hard to follow for those who didn't.

[@existentialchaos8]

I used the exact same logic as in the puzzle to get the answer myself.

[@thierrypauwels]

I could solve the puzzle with notepad and keyboard.

[@yarontaub]

I brute forced it, got the same result.

[@Eswarramesh2428]

at first, i felt bad for not being able to solve such a simple question but then i managed to figure it out. the warm up was insanely easy. it was the main exercise that i struggled with initially but managed to solve in 20 minutes. i knew that day 3 had to be the day the person was telling the truth and that day 3 was tuesday- i took a similar approach to the solution presented in the video but i started with determining the possibilities of whether or not day 2 is when he speaks the truth or lies and narrowed it down from there

[@Robi2009]

I always get lost on that kind of truth/lie logic puzzles, I prefer geometry :/

[@sporksto4372]

Really? This is 10 times easier than any geometrical problem. All you need to do in order to find the answer is to assume on day 1, 2 or 3 respectively, he tells the truth. After assuming on any day he tells the truth, you ought to make sure that other 2 days corroborate the day you assumed to be the true. If you ever find any contradiction out, that means your assumption in the first place was wrong, try another day. By this solution, you can easily get yourself the answer.

[@CaptTerrific]

@@sporksto4372 I believe Robi isn't suggesting it's more difficult intrinsically, but rather that it's easy to lose track of T/F when "if 1 true then 2 is false if 3 is eitehr false or true, dependent on 4..." - just easy to get lost :D

[@soundwave6529]

just absolutely assume that sh*t my man

[@wemela]

I think that's a lie.

[@krishivkothari5971]

Same

[@jaytrox4599]

Paused at the puzzle.. "It's now Thursday, Saturday or Sunday" is that supposed to mean "today is.. " or did he change the days he is lying on? checked the solution to see the statement in there again.. it means "today" for anyone else who is wondering

[@chillmode1881]

Yes. That's what confused me. In the end, there was no answer if that's how we interpret Day 2. And this is a problem for this guy. It's difficult when the explanation of the puzzle is ambiguous. He makes the puzzle confusing by making parts of the explanation ambiguous.

[@sqiwbskwmk]

Thief should learn that honesty is the best policy

[@박로이-z8x]

Yes...I was able to do it...and the best part is I did not expect it to happen...One should definitely try their best and they will certainly reap the fruit~ Thank you so much Presh...not just for this wonderful video but to instill in us the spirit of never giving up!♡

[@daimao7392]

This is probably the only puzzle in from this channel I got right working from my head

[@ZeroSleap]

It's weird for me.To actually come up with the correct conclusion,to not only one of your videos,but a logical deduction puzzle.Seems i followed the right path to solve this one!

[@lymperisgeorgioskarras2853]

Well, that was a hard one. Still managed to do it though after 30 mins. I used some simple math logic (DeMorgan) which helped me a lot. A lot of you were wondering about some of Presh's sayings. One thing most people don't understand is this: denying P and Q equals denying P or Q. This means that If you deny his Day 1 sayings, then Monday or Tuesday is the truth day, and therefore the other one is a LIE day.

[@spacebumpkin1565]

I love your channel makes me feel like a fool most the time but I love it!

[@iabervon]

I found it easier, after determining that day 2 is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Friday, to write down what days of the week days 1 and 3 could be. Then you've got two lists for each statement: the days it could have been made, and the days the truth day could be if it were true. There's no overlap for statement 1, but Tuesday is in both lists for statement 3.

[@akasin8202]

I have lost even my last brain cells trying to understand this problem....

[@Lenny-1423]

That problem was fairly easy I just looked at all possibilities

[@Payal_Ch]

Yes too easy

[@sreejithnilamel5412]

"A man says that he is lying,is what he says true or false?"

[@swagatggautam6630]

Didn't understand at all but felt good while watching.

[@chrisheartscape2472]

Yussss!!! Got it in 10mins without writing anything down :D I hardly ever get the maths ones but this one made me feel great. Thanks Presh!

[@NotQuiteFirst]

Same for me! I never get the ones about triangles and angles, but just speaking through the logic on this one and reaching the conclusion was really satisfying :)

[@chrisheartscape2472]

Boolean Crew!

[@Mihau_desu]

Before watching: First I check if he lies on day 1. If he would tell truth then day 2 cannot be Thursday, Saturday or Sunday. Becouse of day 1 statement, day 2 cannot be Tuesday nor Wednesday. But day 3 statement says he has to tell truth on Wednesday or Friday, we have contradiction. Therefore he tells truth on day 3. This means day 3 is Monday or Tuesday. If it was Monday, then day 2 statement would've created a contradiction. In conlusion: Thief tells truth on Tuesday. I have really enjoyed that one. I got it right without even writing down anything. Yay

[@otherwords1375]

Honestly, you just need three steps and some change: 1) know that "true day" needs to be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday -- because at most 1 of day 1, day 3 can be true. 2) Know that whatever your "true day" is, you need to construct a sequence such that start-day + 1 isn't Thur, Sat, or Sun and 3) either start-day + 2 *or* start-day -2 = "true day." This is a system of equations that nearly finishes the job for us; the only possible sequences that satisfy all three conditions are (Monday, Tuesday, Weds) and (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday).But we can rule out (M,Tues,Weds) because Weds = true day implies M = not true day while the falsity of the M's claim simultaneously implies M or T = true day implies W = not true day. Contradiction. So (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday); QED.

[@jacksonsay37]

This is from "The Great Book of Puzzles and Teasers" by George J. Summers, aka the same book that the Secret Word puzzle was from!!!

[@NVANKAANJIBABU]

Do you have the Pdf of the Same ?

[@thoughtfortheday7811]

Erm, errr...🤔 Ummmm 🤔, mmmmm 🤔, but what if it's tea-time and the dog wants to go for a walk? 😁

[@zerothefaceless4888]

You have two hands. one for the tea-cup, one for the leash.

[@WiredDrummer]

The warmup puzzle was really easy. The main, however, was more mind bending.

[@JoelAndrewGreen]

Since there are only 7 options I went with guess and check starting with Monday. I was quite pleased when Tuesday did not produce a contradiction. :)

[@impyre2513]

I didn't notice the logical inconsistency between day 1 and day 3 until I had already disproved day 1 and day 2 as candidates... Only then did I start to consider they might all be lies, until I noticed that cannot be. Happy truesday

[@feras5017]

Still can't understand why one of 1-3 days must be truth

[@impyre2513]

@@feras5017 because, if he is lying when he says "I lie on Monday and Tuesday" then one of those two days must be his truthful day... If he is also lying when he says "I lie on Wednesday and Friday" then one of those days must also be a truthful day. Since we know he tells the truth exactly one day per week, then he cannot be lying on both day 1 and day 3, since that would mean he would have two truthful days. So he must be lying only on day 1 or day 3, and telling the truth on the other.

[@feras5017]

@@impyre2513 thank you so much i now understand it

[@anoniem4136]

If a thief says he’s lying tomorrow, he actually speaks the truth, even if he’s lying 🤔

[@lolmeaburro6567]

I dont think so If he lies today and says the truth tomorrow, he isn't speaking the truth today. Right?

[@jotarokujo9587]

Are you dutch? + no, if he lies about lying tomorrow, he will speak the truth tomorrow. As simple as that

[@lolmeaburro6567]

@@jotarokujo9587 Yeah but he speaks the truth tomorrow, not today And why do u think im Dutch?

[@josecarlosferreira4942]

@@lolmeaburro6567 I think Jotaro was answering the Anoniem question. Anyway, the logic is right, if today he says "I will lie tomorrow" and speak the truth tomorrow that means he is lying today.

[@scottchilds6676]

I got Tuesday: these kinds of problems it helps to make assumptions, check the assumption and see if you come to a contradiction or not. And i plotted out all 7 possible 3 consecutive days and the possible L,L,T combos for each. I happened to check the right answer on my second choice.

[@kenar420]

I don't think I'm a genius but this was quite easier than I thought.

[@kenar420]

Didn’t say it was clear but all you need is a paper and a pen, that’s all. It’s just not that hard if you know how to arrange thoughts.

[@mAestroShrd]

I have a question 6:08 you say that there is no contradiction there, whereas someone could interpret the Sunday's first part of the statement - "I lie on Monday" to be TRUE because he would actually lie on Monday. Does this make any sense? If there're any other opinions, please share them.

[@Nobody-kq7yk]

The statement is "I lie on Monday and Tuesday." Use of "and" Implies that he lies on both but since he is telling the truth on Tuesday the statement is incorrect. If it was "or" Instead of "and" then the statement would be true.

[@tomasoconnor6456]

It’s Wednesday and I just fell asleep watching this. Or did I? 😂😂

[@coffeemlk.2783]

By the time im done solving this, the theif would have just robbed me :-

[@feedbackzaloop]

What day is it? - Truthday, son

[@connorlane2020]

But he would say that any day of the week😯

[@jimmythestoic7447]

Truesday

[@nintorws]

Awesome puzzle! It took me a while, but I figured it out. It's very satisfying!

[@Ender_Spy]

When you solve the problem by yourself: happiness noises

[@oscaralonso4699]

I got Thursday. The " or " in the second statement got me. I was using it as an "or" without the possibility of using it as an " and"

[@justinkroh3934]

Wow... I actually got it this time! And in a very similar fashion as described in the video. (Day 1 or Day 3 must be truth day, use Day 2 to determine possible combinations, riddle out which day Day 1 can be.)

[@FurryGaru]

Did this a different way. First worked out that Day 1 and Day 3 could not be true on the days mentioned in the respective statements, as the statements would be contradictory - you can’t truthfully say you are lying. This ruled out Day 1 as Mon, Tue or Wed. At this point, I would bring in the statement about one of Day 1 or Day 3 being true, meaning Day 2 is a lie which immediately rules out Day 1 being Fri or Sat. We also know our truth would have to be on one of the days mentioned on Day 1 or Day 3. For a Day 1 Thu to contain the truth, then we would have to tell the truth about Friday’s lie on Saturday, which is not possible. This leaves us with Day 1 being on Sunday. And which day is the truth? Well, it could only be Day 3. Day 1 is impossible as it is Sunday, Day 2 being on a Monday is a lie, and Day 3 (Tuesday) must be true because we already know that we do not lie on both Monday and Tuesday. That’ll do, anyway. Makes more sense to me than trying to figure out what Prash was saying. 😳

[@AnishChari]

That's what I got for an answer.

[@saneperson3776]

The puzzle doesn't make sense tho. The statements on day 1 and 3 both can't be lies because then he would tell the truth on two days of the week each. Therefore both days have to be days where he speaks truth which again goes against the initial statement. Edit: You should've kept the "OR Friday" in the statement like you said in your comment.

[@pcampbell41]

Tuesday was the only day not specified as Day 1, Day 2 or Day 3. It was the absence of a day assignment we’re looking for.

[@Captain_OZONE]

The first time I solved on of your questions 😃😃😃😃😃😃 I am soooo happy

[@chaichapstick]

i actually figured this out before finishing the video!! i paused and got the right answer!

[@unknowlegend2107]

i have been cracking my brain for 15 mins and hearing i was right made me so happy

[@heliocentric1756]

I solved the warm-up puzzle by searching for asymmetry: Saturday is the only day whose tomorrow's status is different from its own :)

[@typo691]

What do you mean by "is different"? The thief lies on both Saturday and Sunday

[@heimdall1973]

It's the only day with the SAME status. And the statement means that the status has to be the same, so Saturday. That's how I solved it.

[@nivlemhero4115]

Meanwhile, it feels like I'm going to fall asleep listening to this problem. Who cares if the thief will tell the truth tomorrow anyway? 😴🤤😪

[@sanchit7493]

This is the first question in your channel that I have solved correctly

[@nishantkushwaha5846]

You are telling the correct answer because I did it by another method and got Tuesday as the answer.👍

[@BigHoffa]

1. Day 1 or day 3 has to be the truth day, and it has to be M, T, W, or F (otherwise, both are truth days) 2. If the truth day is listed as in day 3, and is immediately followed by a day listed in day 4, then day 1 and day 2 are both truth days. Same goes for a day listed in day 1, being immediately preceded by a day listed in day 2 (making day 2 and day 3 truth days). This eliminates M, W, and F. Tuesday is the truth day.

[@lindablocker8386]

I think it would have been clearer if the clue for Day 2 had started with the words, "Today is ..." I thought it was claiming the answer is now Thurs, Sat, or Sun, more consistent with the format of the other two days. For that reason I incorrectly chose Day 2.

[@goldencreeper2551]

Riddle for genius: exists 210982 people: Is for me??

[@oscareliasson3299]

I solved it in an slightly other way😊 One of the hardest problems I've was able to solve!

[@cherkovision]

Took me about 10 minutes, but solved it. That was really fun!

[@thewatcherinthecloud]

Did a check whether day 1 could be true, which got null results. Figured that only Mon or Tues could be truth days, so you set either as your second or third day. Since setting day 1 as Saturday would make day 2 (Sunday) true, (which it isn't), day 1 is Sunday, day 2 is Monday, and day 3 is true and Tuesday.

[@legendhero-eu1lc]

Thank you for the video! All of you friends are super awesome!

[@alielhajj7769]

Me too lazy to grab a paper and solve it stayed 15 min struggling in bed trying to solve it mentally and actually made it😋 I felt so proud but I got a headache 😂😂

[@JLvatron]

I solved this puzzle! And I am telling you on a Saturday.

[@TeeJayChapmion]

Took me a while, but I got there on my own! I feel so capable whenever I can solve one of your problems!!

[@andriaryanto8102]

Tomorrow's Tuesday, happy truth day!

[@BenjaminGoldberg1]

There are only 49 combinations of "what is today" and "when is the liar telling the truth" ... I could write a simple computer program to brute force a solution (and run it) in the time it would have taken me to solve it "correctly"

[@eig5203]

0:20 The answer is Saturday because on Saturday the thief would say "I will tell the truth tomorrow", although he lies on Saturdays, so he would tell a lie the next day(Sunday), and he does lie on Sunday. I know it's kind of obvious but I though I would say it.

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

The truth and lie parts of the warmup puzzle can be reversed without affecting the answer.

[@fuseteam]

eh? hmm so he lies on mon, wed & fri and tells the truth on the other days on which day does he say "i will lie tommorow"?

[@fuseteam]

let's see if monday is day one then he's telling the truth on day 2,4,6 en 7 ..... then its either tuesday or thursday 👀 if still says "i will tell the truth tommorow" then indeed xD

[@hallowizer440]

@@fuseteam Yes, because all you need is 2 days with the same tag.

[@fuseteam]

@@hallowizer440 yeah pretty much -and the same question-

[@GrandSupremeDaddyo]

I spent way too long not being able to figure out that days 1 & 3 could not both be lies. Once I was over that hurdle it was just like a sudoku puzzle.

[@znerd3664]

This is the first one(besides the Order of operations problems) that I've acually been able to figure out on my own!

[@MostafaAhmed-rx7hr]

great logic riddle 👍👍

[@Kevin-un9jf]

if the thief lies on sunday(day 1), it means he will need to tell the truth on Monday and Tuesday. But he has to be lying on Monday so it dosn't work.

[@fnors2]

If he lies on Day 1, he has to tell the truth on Monday *or* Tuesday. It's a weird thing of logic : not (A and B) = (not A) or (not B). [edit: wrote 'or' instead of 'and'] So: not (lie on Monday and lie on Tuesday) = (truth on Monday) or (truth on Tuesday).

[@silviaoprea8043]

This is the first time I did a hard problem form you

[@aaronwarwick9966]

The wording seems imprecise for this question. If day 1 is Sunday, then when he says he lies on Monday that would be a truthful statement. Which implies that what he really means is "I lie on BOTH monday and tuesday" rather than "I lie on Monday and I lie on Tuesday." If you assume he is saying the latter then the puzzle is insolvable.

[@notAshildr]

And there I was, misunderstanding what the day 2 statement meant. I took it as "I'm now lying on day x, day y, or day z" instead of "Today is day x, day y, or day z" Oh well.

[@LRBrown9]

Same here. Syntax is very important when it comes to word puzzles, and this one is written poorly.

[@skldas6725]

@@LRBrown9 samr

[@Akarnf2]

I solved it in 1 hour, in a different way One of the statement that he said in they 1 and 3 most be a lie so the truth day must be : Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday. The lying days MOST be Sunday Thursday and Saturday. Because of that the second day can't be on this day (because his statment)! So the only option for 3 consecutive day in a week are Sunday Monday Tuesday (Thursday can't be the 2 day!) We know that Sunday must be a lying day and that leavs us only with Monday and Tuesday. If Monday that is the second day of the 3 days is the truth day it doesn't correspond with his statement that " today is Torsday" ect so he MUST be lying on Monday and that leavs only Thusday as the truth day( it was very difficult to say it in English I am NOT an English speaker as you notice 😊)

[@davidyoung6331]

It depends whether a "half lie" is a lie or not. "He tells a lie when he says (on day 1) that he lies on Monday and Tuesday." That would mean, to some people, that he speaks the truth on both Monday and Tuesday. (which he cannot) So telling the "half lie" (he tells a lie on Monday but he does tell the truth on Tuesday) put a bit of a "cook" in the puzzle.

[@hallowizer440]

Wow, I solved this using a completely different method. I narrowed down the possible day 1's to Sunday and Thursday, then I narrowed down the truth day to Tuesday in the case that day 1 was Sunday. Then, I checked it using Thursday as day 1, and it didn't work, interesting that that was still the answer.

[@liliacfury]

I don’t think the problem can be solved. Day one can either be truth or lie, if it’s a lie, then on Monday and Tuesday he tells the truth. But the riddle only says only one day the dude tells the truth, so that means that statement will always be false if he’s lying that day, so day one he has to be telling the truth. But then the same thing goes for problem 3, so that means on day one and day three he has to be honest, but because there’s 7 days in a week they can’t be the same day. That means he has to be telling the truth on two days of the week, but the riddle says only one day of the week is the man truthful. Since the riddle contradict itself it cannot be right. That’s my thoughts anyway.

[@patricksheldon5859]

If “I lie on Monday and Tuesday” is false, that means he tells the truth on one or both of those days. We know it’s not both, so he must lie on one and tell the truth on the other.

[@jintzie1950jth]

I had to think about this really hard and listen to the explanation twice, pausing it to try to understand it, before I finally got it straight. On my own, I did not get the right answer.

[@charleshastings9452]

From the second statement you can figure out that it is false

[@RubyPiec]

Saturday, "I will tell the truth tomorrow", which is a lie, so he will "lie tomorrow", and Sunday he also lies, so that's when.

[@intea7778]

A person buys bread on Tuesday. How much bread does the person have left? that's literally your logic

[@Kunabee]

Warmup puzzle has to be Saturday so he isn't lying on a truth day or truthing on a lie day.

[@blahsomethingclever]

I got it, but only after making a 7x7 table. Then it was pretty obvious how to eliminate most days

[@leonardlangner9949]

Jonas ?

[@adamae.7246]

Assuming there was only one good answer, I found "Tuesday" just by using my fingers to count.

[@izzy-artmusicvlogs1234]

This puzzle has bad wording. It said on day 2 that it’s now Thursday, Saturday, or Sunday. I honestly thought that it was referring to the fact that the lying days have changed, therefore causing me to get an incorrect answer. How I would have worded it was, “Today is Thursday, Saturday, or Sunday.”

[@juanpapilors2384]

On the main puzzle, you can notice that you must choose one of the four days mentioned in day 1 and day 3 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday) because if you choose another one, no matter where you put it, you will end up with 2 truth days, because both say the thief lies on those 4 days. So you must pick one of the 4 days mentioned in days 1 and 3. For example: if you choose the truth day as Friday, then day 3 will be a lie, because you are saying the truth in that day, and if you put that Friday on the first day, then the thief is saying the truth, because he lied on Monday and Tuesday, as he is meant to lie 6 days of the week. and this will happen also if we use Wednesday the same way. If we use Monday or Tuesday as truth days, then we should put them on the third day, so that the first day will be a lie and the third day will be the truth. The opposite. The statement of the second day is the one which will help us to find the correct answer. If we used Friday or Wednesday as truth days, then the day 1 will be true and also day 2 because the next will be either Thursday or Saturday. Then Friday and Wednesday are excluded. If we use Monday on the third day, the day one (Saturday of the past week) will be a lie, but the next day (day 2) will be a truth because it is Sunday. So Tuesday can be the unique answer for the truth day. Because if we put it on the third day , as aforementioned, day one ( Sunday of the past week) will be lie because the thief is saying the truth on Tuesday, day 2 will be a lie, because the next day after Sunday is Monday, and the Thursday of truth (third day) he will be telling the truth (lol), because he lied on Wednesday and Friday. 🤥

[@GuilhermeDiGiorgi]

Before watching the video here. Starting day: Sunday. Truth day: Tuesday. Method: Testing for the 4 possibilities (LLL,TLL,LTL,LLT) and spotting contradictions while testing on where to start and where the truth day it is, until I find a match with no contradictions

[@gawain855]

I came to the same answer you did using the same method, but it was awfully confusing watching you do it since you had it listed day 2, day 1, day 3 as opposed to day 1, day 2, day 3.

[@kitsune7229]

I solved it, then watched the video and was a little confused, also thought that I got wrong answer, and then boom. I have correct one :3

[@justdavid3117]

I'm very happy because I solved both puzzles.

[@deepakpatra2011]

It's Tuesday the day the thief speaks truth And day 1 is Sunday Check it out

[@vidicate3963]

Got the same thing

[@spencerhiginbotham7538]

Some of you may be wondering, “Why would this man tell the truth on Tuesdays but not on other days?” This question must make your soul mad. Let me put that madness to rest by quenching your thirst for the answer. His name is Timothy. It all started when he married the love of his life, Darlene. The two of them were so in love that others found them insufferable. They could never bring themselves to separate except when it was absolutely necessary, and when they did, they were inconsolable. They simply could not live without each other. They had a daughter named Darlene Jr. She was beautiful. For Timothy and Darlene, all was right in the world. Until one fateful day, when Darlene started coughing. In a panic, Timothy drove his wife to the hospital. He ran to the front office, carrying her in his arms, skipping all the people in line. When they finally made it to a bed, the doctor diagnosed her with cancer. He explained that she would have to do chemotherapy, which would require her to isolate. Timothy shuttered at the thought of spending such a long time without his wife, and he resolved at that moment that he would trust no one with his wife but himself. Timothy had started college with the intention of becoming a doctor, but two weeks into the first semester, he decided that it was too hard, so he became a cheesemaker instead. However, during those two weeks, he had learned something valuable that he believed would qualify him to operate on his wife: The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. As long as he knew that, he felt confident that he could operate on his wife. However, in spite of this wisdom, he failed. His wife died in his arms, and he was devastated. After Darlene’s funeral, Timothy sat alone in the chapel. A woman named Cheryl saw him, walked up to him, and put her arm around him. “You know,” she whispered, “I’ve had a crush on you since elementary school. Would marrying me cheer you up?” Timothy had no interest in Cheryl, but he just didn’t have the stamina to say no, so he just sat there silently. “Oh, Timmy,” she said, “Can you imagine letting your daughter grow up without a mother?” A look of horror appeared on Timothy’s face. Little Darlene Jr was the only piece of Darlene left in the world, and he couldn’t bare the thought of letting her grow up without a mother. He agreed to Cheryl’s proposal, and they were married that evening. Just after the ceremony, four little kids came up to Timothy to hug him. Cheryl, seeing the confusion in Timothy’s face, explained, “These are my four children.” As it turned out, this wasn’t the first time Cheryl had taken advantage of men mourning the loss of their wives. In fact, it was the fifth time, and each of the first four husbands had one previous child. None of them loved Cheryl, but they all wanted their children to have mothers. Once each man found out what Cheryl was doing, they divorced her, and in order to make it quick, they conceded their children. Timothy despised Cheryl, but he loved his daughter so much that he chose to stay married to Cheryl so that Darlene Jr could have a mother and a father. This did not stop things from becoming heated. For two years, there was contention and contempt every single day. Everyone was miserable. Finally, Darlene Jr came up with a solution. She suggested that each evening, they would go around in a circle and say what they like about a specific family member. Since there were seven people in the family and seven days in the week, they agreed that each person would have one day of the week where people would say what they liked about them. They arranged the schedule by age. Cheryl got Sunday (because she was a cougar and was older than Timothy), Timothy got Monday, Darlene Jr got Tuesday, and the other four children, who aren’t major enough characters to get names, got Wednesday through Saturday. That first Sunday, when it was Timothy’s turn to say what he loved about Cheryl, he froze. He couldn’t think of a single thing. He thought about telling Cheryl what he really thought of her because he had never lied in his life. (Well, that’s not entirely true. He did lie to his gym teacher once in junior high after running one less lap than he was supposed to, but he didn’t care enough about any of the people there to feel bad about it.) But when he looked at his daughter, he thought, “I need to lie. For her.” He then mumbled, “I like your hair.” He couldn’t sleep that night knowing that he had lied in front of his daughter. The following Monday was even tougher. As much as Timothy hated Cheryl, he hated himself even more for marrying her. He couldn’t bear to lie about himself in front of his daughter, but he also didn’t want to show weakness, so he mumbled, “I’m pretty cool.” Once again, he felt terrible. But Tuesday was beautiful. There were many things he loved about Darlene Jr. When the time came, he spent ten minutes listing compliments he had for her. He would’ve kept going, but Cheryl felt so insulted that he was saying so much about Darlene and so little about her that she shut him down. You would think Timothy wouldn’t have as much trouble saying what he liked about the other four children, but just the fact that he met them on the same day that the wife he loved died and met the wife he hated made it very hard to think positively about them. He decided that he needed to lie every night. Every night, that is, except Tuesday night. At first, he only lied in the evening, but over time, he got to where he dreaded every night that wasn’t Tuesday night so much that thinking about lying had a complicated psychological effect on him. One Thursday, he noticed that he felt awkward telling the truth when it wasn’t Tuesday, and he resigned to it. Since then, Cheryl and her four children have died, and yet the habit remains to this day. Timothy tells me that he was actually really sad when they all died, but it wasn’t Tuesday when he said that. Come to think of it, it wasn’t Tuesday when he told me this story. Oops.

[@EnzoTheGreat_08]

Yey i got this one correctly while pausing the video. What I did is I just tried making the days the truthful day simultaneously and try if it fits with the statement. Lol. My answer to the warmup puzzle is Saturday, please confirm if this is correct.

[@bestredditstories1158]

Solved it in my head with just basic logic. From previous calculations, I was able to deduce that Monday and Tuesday were the only possibilities where he tells the truth. Further analysis proved that Monday couldn’t be a possibility because Day 3 would automatically be true and two days before Day 3 is Sunday which would mean that Day 2’s statement would simultaneously be true. Since that can’t happen, Tuesday is the only day where this works. Easy.

[@iogamer9844]

My answer is correct, but the whole thing was super confusing to do and I have no idea what I've even done to get to the answer.....Doing things in your head can be confusing, but thankfully it only took me about 5 minutes or something when I did it.

[@damnboy937]

Wow, I managed to figure it out :) That was easy, actually. I thought Fresh Lakewater would make me confused again but not today!)

[@whydoyouneedmyname6007]

Fresh Lakewater lmao 😂😂

[@Nerketur]

I solved it differently. First, let's remove possibilities. We know statement 1 cannot be said on a Monday or Tuesday. So Day 1 is W, R, F, Sa, Su Day 2 is T, F, Sa, Su, M Day 3 is F, Sa, Su, M, T But Day 3 cannot be Friday, because statement three cannot be said on a Wednesday or a Friday. Day 1 is R, F, Sa, Su Day 2 is F, Sa, Su, M Day 3 is Sa, Su, M, T Then I realized that day 1 and 3 cannot both be false, which means day two cannot be true. Day 1 is R, Su Day 2 is F, M Day 3 is Sa, T Finally I checked all four remaining possibilities, and fount the only one that works is where day 3 is Tuesday and a truth day

[@theoldlaser]

A liar says he's lying. Figure that out >:D

[@duartesilva7907]

I didn't do all this in order to find out the answer. It's clear that lying on a Monday and Tuesday will collide with lying on a Wednesday and Thursday. Day 1 could be only Thursday, Saturday or Sunday. But, Thursday would lead to being Friday day 2,and Fryday is a lie; Wednesday would do the same thing because it can't be Thursday as day 2. Sunday is the only one with no problem, because day 2 can be Monday and it's a lie; third day is obviously a lie so, as Monday is conjugated with Tuesday, Tuesday can be True and Monday a lie. That's the case here.