Homies
Let's do something different for some fresh air. Everyone loves puzzles while rotting in prison. They keep your mind form rotting. So put down your remote and put on your thinking cap for a wild ride with logical thought, a thing not many of you can grasp. See if you're less dumb than your accursed cellie!
Here's an easy one first: Lawyers lie on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays: all other days they tell the truth. Judges, however, lie on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. All other days they tell the truth. Now, you hear the lawyer casually mention, "Yesterday was one of my lying days." The judge then replies, "Yesterday was one of my lying days too." From nothing more than these two statements and the given information above about the characteristics of lawyers and judges, you and your superior thought processes are able to deduce what day it is by grabbing a calendar and going over each day of the week, to see which day both statements can be permitted by the rules. HINT: obviously it can't be Sunday, when both lawyers and judges tell the truth, since yesterday (Saturday) was a lying day for the judge, but not the lawyer. So, is your brain-light of sufficient wattage for you to uncover the correct day of the week in, say, 10 minutes, or before cellie does?
Or do you need another hint? Don't bother to guess, because guessing makes a loser five times out of six (or six out of seven if you insist it's Sunday). You will know you have the correct answer when you reach a day where both answers are allowed by the rules. Your brain will grow to solve this!
Ready for something a little harder, or are you still rattling your cups across the bars, yelling at the screws to bring you some aspirin? It's okay to stop and rest. You can't run until after you've crawled.
You are babysitting four other cellies in a five-rack cage. While you're behind the sheet taking a dump, you hear a heavy crash, and suddenly that loud, obnoxious gangsta-rap music you've been...
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