Problem Nine: Rigged for Death
Oct 3rd, 2006 by tony
Another classic:
A poor, young knight wants to marry a beautiful princess and she wants to marry him. But the king doesn’t want the marriage. He offers the knight a choice. He can draw one of two slips of paper out of a golden urn. One will say “marriage” and one will say “death”. The princess is able to whisper to the knight that both slips of paper really say “death”. The knight and the princess end up being wed. How does the knight accomplish this?
He draws it and promptly destroys the slip of paper. The one left in the box is death, therefore, technically he must of draw the “marriage” slip.
What could have happened is that the Knite had chosen the other choce that the king mensiond.He could have won the marrige that way.
i could be wrong but that is my oppinion.