Saturday, November 13, 2010

Math Puzzle Number 3

The Island of Fidelity:

A thousand couples live on a small island in the south pacific. The women on the island are masters of logic. They also always know if someone else's husband is unfaithful. If a man is unfaithful and his wife finds out, instead of getting kicked off the island, as he would be on TV, he is instead shot at midnight the night she finds out and laid on the steps of the capital as an example to others at 8:00am the next morning. A priest is visiting the island, and as he leaves he makes the (shocking?) revelation that, while he holds confessions sacred, he wanted to let people know that someone on the island has been unfaithful ( and possibly many people). What happens?


Comment: This is slightly different than the statement that I have yesterday, but is the same in its essentials.