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<blockquote data-quote="ioerr" data-source="post: 2773708" data-attributes="member: 346811">You are no match for google http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-1235171.html&quot;I&#039;ve come across several variations of this riddle. Many involve a stolen orange instead of $100.One of the variations uses the word both as in &quot;There is a deaf man, a blind man and a mute man. They both have an orange&quot;.This giving the hint that there are only two men on the island.Thus the solution is that the man who is both mute and deaf can simply give the blind man back his orange/$100 (letting him know that he had stolen it in the first place).The other answer deals with the final sentence:&quot;How can Mute tell Blind what happened? &quot;The answer is &quot;he could tell him by saying he stole your $100&quot;.In other words &quot;if he wasn&#039;t mute, he would simply tell him&quot;.This answers the question asked even though it is impossible for mute to actually do so because he is mute.&quot;Which I&#039;m thinking is about as plausible an answer as you&#039;re ever going to get for this one.&nbsp; I bet it plays a lot better in whatever original language this riddle came out of.Yes, I am completely google headed,&nbsp; I admit it ok?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ioerr, post: 2773708, member: 346811"] You are no match for google http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-1235171.html "I've come across several variations of this riddle. Many involve a stolen orange instead of $100. One of the variations uses the word both as in "There is a deaf man, a blind man and a mute man. They both have an orange". This giving the hint that there are only two men on the island. Thus the solution is that the man who is both mute and deaf can simply give the blind man back his orange/$100 (letting him know that he had stolen it in the first place). The other answer deals with the final sentence: "How can Mute tell Blind what happened? " The answer is "he could tell him by saying he stole your $100". In other words "if he wasn't mute, he would simply tell him". This answers the question asked even though it is impossible for mute to actually do so because he is mute." Which I'm thinking is about as plausible an answer as you're ever going to get for this one. I bet it plays a lot better in whatever original language this riddle came out of. Yes, I am completely google headed, I admit it ok? [/QUOTE]

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