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Help with a riddle!!?
A king wants to get rid of his prime minister. He calls him into the throne room, puts two slips of paper into an urn, and says, "On one of these slips I hae written 'leave,' and one the other I have written 'Stay.' The paper you choose will decide your fate." The minister suspects that the king has actually written "Leave" on both pieces of paper. How does he manage to keep his position?
Explain your answer.
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The prime minister takes one piece of paper and accidentally throws it into the fire or rips it or destroys it some way or another. The prime minister says Oh dear, well lets read what's on the other piece of paper and whatever it says on there my card must have had the opposite. Since it definitely says leave, it looks like the other one says stay, and he stays.
- 1 decade ago
The king doesn't have the authority to get rid of the prime minister, because they're two different kinds of government. Even if they belong to the same country, the king would only be a figurehead, but nothing else. The prime minister would be the one ahead of the government.
Or, to keep to the fact of this riddle, the prime minister can tell the king to take the slips out and write new ones so he can see them before the king puts them into the urn and the minister pulling them out.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
he takes both so he leaves out of leaving
= stay
:D
