Riddle Black And White Marbles

Three closed boxes have either white marbles black marbles or both and they are labeled white black and both.

Riddle black and white marbles.

Three boxes contain black and white marbles. The emperor offers you a chance to live by playing a simple game. He gives you 50 black marbles 50 white marbles and 2 empty bowls and instructs you to divide the 100 marbles into the two bowls. By selecting only one marble determine how you can correctly lable the boxes.

The emperor offers you a chance to live by playing a simple game. However the king was very mean and he wickedly placed 2 black marbles in the jars without any blue marbles. Place 1 white marble in the bowl and place the rest of the marbles in the other bowl 49 whites and 50 blacks. He gives you 50 black marbles 50 white marbles and 2 empty bowls.

One box has all black marbles one has all white marbles and one has a mixture of black and white. If a black marble comes out you know that has to be the black marbles box so you put the black label on it. This way you begin a 50 50 chance of choosing the bowl with just one white marble therefore life. However you re told that each of the labels are wrong.

Notice that all black and all white are the same in the sense that they are the same color. All three boxes are mislabled. Since you know that the box is labeled incorrectly it must have all black marbles or all white marbles. You may reach into one of the boxes and pull out only one marble.

He then says divide these 100 marbles into these 2 bowls. One of the marbles was supposed to be black and one was supposed to be blue. If the prisoner picked the blue marble he would escape the prison with his life. Mislabeled boxes of marbles.

But even if you choose the other bowl you still have almost a 50 50 chance at picking one of the 49 white marbles. If he picked the black marble he would be executed. Get free riddles by email. The box labelled white must then be labelled both because you know it is also labeled incorrectly and therefore.

A probability brain teaser. You can divide them however you want as long as all the marbles are in the bowls. You are a prisoner sentenced to death.