U have 5 hats.2 r white, n 3 r red.U blindfold 3 geniuses, who r honest.What color is d front genius hat?

Question

The answer is not based upon probability.

Answer 1

There is more to this question (which I met 52 years ago in

Logic 101):

After placing the hats and hiding the extras, the blindfolds

are removed.  The first man (who has 2 good eyes) is asked

to identify the color of his hat.  

After looking at the others and thinking a bit, he says he

doesn't know.  

The second man (who has only 1 good eye) does the same

and answers the same.  

The third man (who is totally blind) then speaks up and

correctly names the color of each of the 3 hats.

NOW figure it out.

Answer 2

i dont get it..

Answer 3

obviously red,white red

all three will not pik red and white will be piked too.

Answer 4

Blue?

:D

Answer 5

i dunno... blindfold? haha i guessed...

Answer 6

Black ,thats all they can see.

Answer 7

Thanks Lakewood for making sense of this botched up riddle- I'm thinking the author doesn't know the answer but I'll take another stab at it...

In order for these geniuses to not know what hat they were wearing they would need to be seeing either 2 red hats or one of each on the others- for if they saw 2 white hats they'd know their own was red.

When genius #1 admits he doesn’t know what color he has on, that tells the other guys (#2 & #3) that either they are both wearing red or one has red and the other white.  

If genius #2 saw white on #3 he’d know his was red, but since he couldn’t have been sure of his own color, that tells us that #3 has a red hat on.

I’m not sure how the blind guy figured out the others hats however- the way I see it they could both have either red or white hats on