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<blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1342574" data-attributes="member: 259">Can I assume that they're very strict and rather intelligent about their rules of lying?&nbsp;Then I ask them the question designed to cut through the nonsense on all of these &quot;sometimes-lying-and-sometimes-telling-the-truth&quot; riddles:&nbsp;[spoiler]&quot;If you were to answer the question, 'Does the right road lead to Hell?' as honestly as you're answering this question, would your answer be 'yes'?&quot;&nbsp;In order to understand it, let's suppose that the right road leads to Paradise.&nbsp;If the person you're talking to answers your question honestly, then they would answer the question &quot;Does the right road lead to hell?&quot; honestly as well, and would answer &quot;no.&quot;&nbsp; Therefore, their honest answer to your actual question is &quot;no,&quot; they wouldn't say yes to the question, &quot;Does the right road lead to hell?&quot;&nbsp;If the person you're talking to is lying, then they would answer the question, &quot;Does the right road lead to hell?&quot; as yes.&nbsp; HOWEVER, they're going to lie about what their answer to that question would be:&nbsp; they'll tell you that they would answer &quot;no&quot; to that question.&nbsp;Got it?&nbsp; So ask them the question, rely on a double-negative to cancel out a lie, and trust the answer you get.[/spoiler]&nbsp;Cool, eh?&nbsp; Give your DM a headache with this the next time such a puzzle comes up <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.&nbsp;Daniel</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pielorinho, post: 1342574, member: 259"] Can I assume that they're very strict and rather intelligent about their rules of lying? Then I ask them the question designed to cut through the nonsense on all of these "sometimes-lying-and-sometimes-telling-the-truth" riddles: [spoiler]"If you were to answer the question, 'Does the right road lead to Hell?' as honestly as you're answering this question, would your answer be 'yes'?" In order to understand it, let's suppose that the right road leads to Paradise. If the person you're talking to answers your question honestly, then they would answer the question "Does the right road lead to hell?" honestly as well, and would answer "no." Therefore, their honest answer to your actual question is "no," they wouldn't say yes to the question, "Does the right road lead to hell?" If the person you're talking to is lying, then they would answer the question, "Does the right road lead to hell?" as yes. HOWEVER, they're going to lie about what their answer to that question would be: they'll tell you that they would answer "no" to that question. Got it? So ask them the question, rely on a double-negative to cancel out a lie, and trust the answer you get.[/spoiler] Cool, eh? Give your DM a headache with this the next time such a puzzle comes up :). Daniel [/QUOTE]

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