The fear of Dot town
In a town named Dot Town every resident has a colored dot upon his or her forehead. This dot is always either red or blue, and everyone in town knows this. Every day at noon, the entire town gathers together, and each person sees every other person and every other person’s forehead dot. No one ever misses this gathering.
No one in Dot Town ever dies unless and until one knows the color of his/her own dot. If someone knows the color of his/her own dot, he/she will die that night . Everyone else will notice the death of fellow resident at the gathering at noon the next day (and not before). For fear of death, there are no mirrors in Dottown, and no one ever says anything about the dots or tell others their color of dot.
One day,
after many years of peace in the town, a stranger arrives in Dot Town. At the noon meeting on that day, the stranger announces to all, “There is at least one person in this town with a red dot.” The stranger then leaves town, without saying anything further.
Will some one die in Dot Town?
If yes, how many?
What is the future of Dot Town?
Case 1
when there is only one red dot
the one who sees ever other dot as blue will die that night.rest will not die that day only (next day they will die)as according to information they have there should be at least one red dot the day the stranger leaves.and they all saw one. So their dot color is still unknown to them.
Case 2
when 2 red dots.no one will see all blue .so next day every one will come at meeting.so one seeing 1 dots will understand that one with red dot is also seeing one red dot.so they will die that night.and the next day all will die understanding that only 2 red dots were there all rest are blue.
case 3
when 3 red dots .
the one seeing 2 red dots will not seeing any body die after two days.he will understand.that the red dots one are seeing 2 red dots so he will die that night along with other red dots.then rest will die next night.
similarly if there are n red dots. So. Their death news will be shared at nth meeting considering the day man left as 0th meeting. So the next day there will be no meeting as everyone will be dead.so the man killed all of the DOT TOWN
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