Test your skills of deduction with the May 2020 edition of Riddle Me This: Nuts, Bolts, Nuts & Bolts.
In front of you are three closed metal boxes. One is labeled “Nuts,” one is labeled “Bolts,” and one is labeled “Nuts & Bolts.” You know that every box is incorrectly labeled and you would like to rearrange the labels so that each box is correct. By making only one selection from one box, how can you be sure to properly re-label each box?
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Excellent deduction my dear Watson!
Actually, you can take one item from any box and label them all correctly.
Take one from the Nuts box. If it is a Bolt, then the Nuts and Bolts box must contain Nuts (since it cannot hold Bolts or Nuts and Bolts) and the Bolts box must contain Nuts and Bolts..
If the item pulled was a Nut and Bolt, then the Bolt box must contain Nuts and the Nuts and Bolts box must contain Bolts
This similar logic applies if you pull an item from the box labeled Bolts.