A landlord is threatening to evict a father and his beautiful young daughter, unless she agrees to marry him. In a false gesture of sincerity, he offers her an opportunity for her and her father to remain in the house, without marrying him. He has a silk bag in which he says he has placed a white and a black stone from the footpath on which they're standing. If she picks the white stone from the bag, without looking, she wins; if she picks the black, she loses. However, the young girl saw him place two black stones in the bag. She can't expose him in front of the witnesses without angering him and making things worse. How does the clever girl win?
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She withdraws a stone and instantly drops it into those in the ground and is lost. To know what color it was they must look at the stone remaining in the bag.
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She withdraws a stone and instantly drops it into those in the ground and is lost. To know what color it was they must look at the stone remaining in the bag.
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