Jerry the mouse is hungry and according to some confidential information, there is a tempting piece of cheese at the end of one of the three paths after the junction he just found himself!
Fortunately, Tom is standing right there and Jerry hopes he can get some useful information as to which path he must get; most importantly because Spike and Tyke, the dogs, are at the end of the other two paths!
The only problem is that Tom gives true and false replies in alternating order. Furthermore, he has no way of knowing which will be first, the truth or the lie!
He is only allowed to ask Tom 2 questions that can be answered by a “yes” and a “no”.
What must be the two questions he must ask?
No matter how hard I tried, I can't figure out anything... I have seen several variations for the 2 doors problem but this one is different!
from Hot Weekly Questions - Mathematics Stack Exchange
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