Life is a Test: A Series of Pony Logic Puzzles

by Brony_of_Brody

Why Do So Many Puzzles Involve Being Imprisoned Somewhere?

You're awake! Thank goodness! You were out for ages!

Well, five minutes, but my point still stands. AGES!

That was a pretty bad knock to the head you took. Are you okay? Do you remember who I am?

Yeah, Rainbow Dash. So at least you don't have amnesia or anything...or do you? Do you remember your name?

...

...Alright, I think you're okay.

Gaaaah, stupid alpacas! I thought I could avoid getting captured like Rarity, AJ and Fluttershy did, but those guys are stronger than they look...

...

...doesn't look like they intend to let us out any time soon.

What are you in here for, anyway?

...you on-upped the king on a puzzle and he decided to throw you in jail!? That's stupid! What's wrong with being an egghead? I wouldn't mind being one! Professor Egghead wouldn't just be a name for the School of Friendship anymore!

Me? Oh, well, I got called out by the Map. Yeah, the Cutie Map. Twilight's castle has this map that sends us out anywhere there's a friendship problem. And really, these guys are SERIOUSLY not the most friendly bunch you ever saw, huh?

...is anyone actually coming for us? HEY! HEY! LET US OUTTA HERE, YOU STUPID STINKING BUNCH OF -

Uh, nevermind. That got his attention...

-

...so. We're doomed. The jailer sets us up to play this weird game, and if we both lose, we're staying here in the dungeon forever.

...Geez, how can you just stay so calm? Look, I know he said that if we win, we go free, but c'mon! There's no way we're ever going to get outta here! You know one of us is going to screw up! One hundred chances at it!

...do you not hear what we're supposed to be doing? Okay, i'll repeat it slowly, so you know how utterly DOOMED we are.

He's going to take us away to separate cells. He'll then make us toss a coin, and then we gotta guess if the other pony got heads or tails. If we both guess correctly, WE LOSE! I mean, I'm a pretty unlucky pony. I get into scrapes flying all the time. There's no way we're ever going to pull through a hundred flips and not get the guesses correct!

...you have a plan?

...Oh you're the best! Not bad, for an egghead! Okay, we'll do that...

Author's Note:

Well there are. But I've never heard this one before, so I'm going with that.

1. You and Rainbow Dash to be separated into different cells.

2. You will both toss a coin, and must predict if the other got heads or tails.

3. If both of you guess correctly, you will both be imprisoned FOREVER.

4. Manage one hundred flips with at least one incorrect guess every time, and you go free.

5. Once separated, you will not be able to communicate with one another in any way.

PUZZLE: Before being separated, discuss a strategy. How can you both last long enough to go free?

Comments

[Duckgame4life]

Now this is neat
coin flips are always 50/50, since we do 2 there is 4 ways it turns out; both right,both wrong, or 1 each either way
So heres the plan, dash always guess whatever her coin was, and we guess the opposite of our coin
This way dash is always guessing both are the same, and we guess the 2 are diffrent, since it cant be both one of us is always wrong

[Skittlebug]

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That makes a hell of a lot more sense than the second will one.

[Andy Ray]

I saw this riddle once !

One of the prisoners should claim, the other prisoner got the opposite of what this prisoner got, while the second should claim, the first prisoner got exactly what he did:

#1 -- #2 -- #1 says the other got -- #2 says the other got;
Heads -- heads -- "tails" -- "heads";
Heads -- tails -- "tails" -- "tails";
Tails -- heads -- "heads" -- "heads";
Tails -- tails -- "heads" -- "tails".

I guarantee, there's every chance at least one of them gets it wrong !