What is the world's second hardest riddle?

Answer 1

I think this is a really good riddle, whether your opinion is different:

A man is driving down a road when he comes to a pair of crossroads. He stops, gets out of his car, and walks up. He doesn't know which way to go.

In front of him he sees two men. They both speak in unison:

"One road leads to the village of honesty. One road leads to the village of lies. One of us is from the village of honesty, and will speak the truth. One of us if from the village of lies, and will not speak the truth. We know which of us is from which town, but we will not tell you. You may ask us only one question. You must choose which to ask, and ask that man only one question."

"Once you go into one village, we will shut the gate behind you and lock it. You will stay there forever"

The man is puzzled. He could ask 'which is the way to the village of honesty' but if he gets told the answer by the liar, he will end up in the village of lies.

Finally, he realizes how he can ask a question to a man of his choice, and he will be able to find the way to the village of honesty.

What did the man ask? Scroll down for the answer.

The answer is 2.

The man asks to a man of his choice:

"If I ask the other man the way to the village of lies, where will he point?"

This way, the man from the village of honesty will know the other man is from the village of lies, know he will lie, and point to the village of honesty.

However, the man from the village of lies will know that the other man is from the village of honesty, and will point to the village of lies. But, of course, he is a liar, and will point to the village of honesty.

The man knows the way. They have both pointed to the village of honesty.

Answer 2

What a riddle of a question! What's the hardest riddle in the world? This is perhaps the hardest question I've ever attempted to answer. It would have been the second hardest question but some benevolent soul deemed another question as a harmful question and denied any attempts to answer it. That question was; "Is this a trick question" which is the first thing I asked myself when I read this question here. Then I asked myself how it was that this question managed to escape the harmful question police as it seems self evident that many people would read your question and wonder to themselves if this is a trick question. I am hesitant to even answer this question as I keep asking myself; "Self, is this a trick question?" Which makes my palms all sweaty and my heart palpitate from fear of asking harmful questions. Where are the harmful question police when you need one?

Answer 3

Isn't the question in itself the answer.

Answer 4

who is that with a neck and no head XD