🕵️ MYSTERY QUEST #02 — THE THREE BOXES 🐉 You've discovered…
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🕵️ MYSTERY QUEST #02 — THE THREE BOXES 🐉
You've discovered three treasure boxes inside the Dragon's Cave! 💎
Each box has a label:
📦 BOX 1:
THE TREASURE IS IN THIS BOX.
📦 BOX 2:
THE TREASURE IS NOT IN THIS BOX.
📦 BOX 3:
THE TREASURE IS NOT IN BOX 1.
The dragon tells you:
🐉 "Exactly ONE of these three statements is true!"
🤔 Which box contains the treasure?
Think carefully and explain your reasoning! 👀
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🐉 MYSTERY QUEST #02
Can you outsmart the dragon? 🔥
You've discovered three treasure boxes inside the Dragon's Cave! 💎
Each box has a label:
📦 BOX 1:
THE TREASURE IS IN THIS BOX.
📦 BOX 2:
THE TREASURE IS NOT IN THIS BOX.
📦 BOX 3:
THE TREASURE IS NOT IN BOX 1.
The dragon tells you:
🐉 "Exactly ONE of these three statements is true!"
🤔 Which box contains the treasure?
Think carefully and explain your reasoning! 👀
💬 Comment your answer under this post!
🏆 2 winners will receive 2,000,000 MLX each!
(Wheel spin for correct answers, if there is no correct answer wheel spin among all.)
📜 RULES
👉 No groups
👉 Subscribe to
👉 Payout on Sunday
👉 All users on my blocklist can’t participate.
👉 You need a pink badge AND a minimum of three badges from the marketplace OR a wildcard . (Sorry for that, but it keeps fraudsters away. The wildcard is given by me directly.)
🐉 MYSTERY QUEST #02
Can you outsmart the dragon? 🔥
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BOX 2.
If statement 3 is true, then Labels 1 and 2 are false. Therefore, Box 1 is empty, so Box 2 contains the treasure, given that there is no reference to the treasure being in Box 3.
If Label 1 were true and Labels 2 and 3 false, then treasure would have to be in BOTH Boxes 1 AND 2.
If Label 2 is true, and Labels 1 and 3 false, then [the negatives of] Labels 1 and 3 contradict each other, i.e. are all three boxes empty?
If statement 3 is true, then Labels 1 and 2 are false. Therefore, Box 1 is empty, so Box 2 contains the treasure, given that there is no reference to the treasure being in Box 3.
If Label 1 were true and Labels 2 and 3 false, then treasure would have to be in BOTH Boxes 1 AND 2.
If Label 2 is true, and Labels 1 and 3 false, then [the negatives of] Labels 1 and 3 contradict each other, i.e. are all three boxes empty?
The treasure is in the 2nd chest. ✅
Here is the logical deduction proving why this is the only possible solution, based on the dragon’s rule (which states that exactly one of the three statements is true):
Let’s examine what happens if the treasure is in the different chests:
🟡 If the treasure were in the 1st chest:
-Inscription on the 1st chest (“The treasure is in this chest”): TRUE
-Inscription on the 2nd chest (“The treasure is not in this chest”): TRUE (since it is in the 1st, it is indeed not in the 2nd)
-This results in two true statements, which contradicts the dragon’s rule. Therefore, the treasure cannot be in the 1st chest.
If the treasure were in the 3rd chest:
-Inscription on the 2nd chest (“The treasure is not in this chest”): TRUE (since it is in the 3rd)
-Inscription on the 3rd chest (“The treasure is not in the 1st chest”): TRUE (since it is in the 3rd, it is indeed not in the 1st)
-This also results in two true statements, so this possibility is ruled out as well.
If the treasure is in chest 2:
-Inscription on chest 1 (“The treasure is in this chest”): FALSE (because it is in chest 2)
-Inscription on chest 2 (“The treasure is not in this chest”): FALSE (because it is, in fact, in this very chest)
-Inscription on chest 3 (“The treasure is not in chest 1”): TRUE (since it is in chest 2, it is indeed not in chest 1)
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Here is the logical deduction proving why this is the only possible solution, based on the dragon’s rule (which states that exactly one of the three statements is true):
Let’s examine what happens if the treasure is in the different chests:
🟡 If the treasure were in the 1st chest:
-Inscription on the 1st chest (“The treasure is in this chest”): TRUE
-Inscription on the 2nd chest (“The treasure is not in this chest”): TRUE (since it is in the 1st, it is indeed not in the 2nd)
-This results in two true statements, which contradicts the dragon’s rule. Therefore, the treasure cannot be in the 1st chest.
If the treasure were in the 3rd chest:
-Inscription on the 2nd chest (“The treasure is not in this chest”): TRUE (since it is in the 3rd)
-Inscription on the 3rd chest (“The treasure is not in the 1st chest”): TRUE (since it is in the 3rd, it is indeed not in the 1st)
-This also results in two true statements, so this possibility is ruled out as well.
If the treasure is in chest 2:
-Inscription on chest 1 (“The treasure is in this chest”): FALSE (because it is in chest 2)
-Inscription on chest 2 (“The treasure is not in this chest”): FALSE (because it is, in fact, in this very chest)
-Inscription on chest 3 (“The treasure is not in chest 1”): TRUE (since it is in chest 2, it is indeed not in chest 1)
🤣😂
Box 3 as it was the only one that made a statement about another but not itself. Box 1 said " it was in this box" but not Box 1 so it is a statement rather than actual instruction, BOx 2 stated the same but only box 3 had a clear answer but not about itself. Also in my head Box 3 was not selfish😂
The treasure is in Box 2 because it is the only placement that results in exactly one true statement, which is what the dragon required.
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