Bridge crossing with statement riddle
A young man walks through the forest, He comes to a bridge. In front of the bridge is a large man carrying an axe.
The man says, “If you want to cross this bridge, you must tell me a statement. If I think the statement is true, you will be strangled to death. If I say the statement is false, your head will be chopped off.”
A few minutes later, the young man walked over the bridge, while the larger man stood pondering.
What was the statement the young man had given?
He said “my head will be chopped off“.so if large man decide to strangle him the statement become false and his head must be chopped off,and if his head is chopped the statement become true then he must be strangled in both case he cannot harm the man without contradicting his initial statement
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