{"id":1355,"date":"2020-05-06T19:10:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T19:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2020-11-16T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T09:21:00","slug":"writing-on-the-envelope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/riddles\/riddles-for-adults\/writing-on-the-envelope\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing on the envelope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A wealthy wise old woman feared that her daughter was lazy and as a result rather stupid.<br>When the old woman died, her will stipulated that her assets were to be liquidated and a check was to be written for the full amount.<br>The check was to be placed in one of three envelopes.<br>The other two envelopes would contain a blank piece of paper.<br>If the daughter could determine from the writing on the envelope which envelope contained the check, she would inherit her mother&#8217;s fortune, otherwise the fortune would go to the old woman&#8217;s favorite charity for animals.<br>The daughter was not allowed to touch the envelopes. Her decision had to be made based on the writing on the envelopes.<br>The daughter was told that only one envelope had a true statement and that the other two statements were false.<br>The envelopes had the following writing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>This envelope does not have the check<\/li><li>This envelope has the check<\/li><li>The second envelope does not have the check<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Which envelope should the daughter pick?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='661547841e5e15082765918' value='661547841e5e15082765918'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-661547841e5e15082765918' value='ANSWER'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-661547841e5e15082765918' value='Hide answer'><button id='bg-showmore-action-661547841e5e15082765918' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-green-button bg-eye '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">ANSWER<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-661547841e5e15082765918' ><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The daughter should pick envelope 1.<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\">Statements 1 and 2 were false, and the only true statement was statement 3.<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\">If the check was in envelope 1, that would make statement 1 false, statement 2 false and statement 3 is the only true statement.<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\">If the check was in envelope 2, statements 1 and 2 would both be true.<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\">If the check was in envelope 3, statements 1 and 3 would both be true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Want some hard riddles? Try this one: <a href=\"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/riddles\/hard-riddles\/riddles-with-numbers\/\">Riddles with numbers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wealthy wise old woman feared that her daughter was lazy and as a result rather stupid.When the old woman &#8230; <a title=\"Writing on the envelope\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/riddles\/riddles-for-adults\/writing-on-the-envelope\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Writing on the envelope\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[781,782],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jokes-and-riddles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}