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HE SAID, "I WILL BE SHOT." IF HE SAYS, "I WILL BE SHOT," THAT STATEMENT IS NEITHER TRUE NOR FALSE. IF IT WERE TRUE, HE WOULD BE HANGED. BUT THEN "BEING SHOT" WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN TRUE. THUS, THE STATEMENT MUST BE FALSE. BUT IF IT WERE FALSE, HE WOULD BE SHOT. BUT IF HE WERE SHOT, THE STATEMENT WOULD HAVE BEEN TRUE. SO THERE IS A CONTRADICTION, AND HIS STATEMENT WAS NEITHER TRUE NOR FALSE. THEY COULDN'T SHOOT HIM OR HANG HIM. SO THEY LET HIM FREE PETE TOLD THEM TO FORM A CIRCLE AROUND HIM. ALL THE SQUAD WAS FACING IN AT PETE, READY TO SHOOT, WHEN THEY REALIZED THAT EVERYONE WHO MISSED WOULD LIKELY END UP SHOOTING ANOTHER SQUAD MEMBER. SO NO ONE DARED TO FIRE, KNOWING THE RISK. THUS AT SUNDOWN HE WAS RELEASED SPLIT INTO 4 GROUPS: 2 GROUPS OF 3, 1 GROUP OF 2 AND YOU. ALL GO IN SEPARATE DIRECTIONS AND RETURN TO THE STARTING POINT IN 16 HOURS. THE TRICK IS TO DETERMINE WHO ARE THE SPIES. REMEMBER THAT THEY WILL NOT ALWAYS LIE. IF YOU FIND THE VILLAGE, TAKE THE SAME PATH AGAIN. IF YOU DID NOT FIND THE VILLAGE AND EVERYONE IN THE 2 GROUPS OF 3 ALSO REPORT THAT THEY DID NOT FIND THE VILLAGE, THEN IT IS DOWN THE PATH WITH THE GROUP OF 2 MEN AND THEY ARE BOTH SPIES. IF ONLY ONE OF THE GROUPS OF 3 HAS ONE MAN WHO SAY THAT THE VILLAGE IS THERE, THEN HE IS RIGHT AND THE OTHER TWO MEN ARE SPIES. IF BOTH GROUPS OF 3 ARE IN DISAGREEMENT, THEN THE MAJORITY VOTE WINS. EACH GROUP OF 3 HAS 1 SPY EACH. IF THE GROUP OF 2 IS IN DISAGREEMENT AND OF THE GROUPS OF 3 IS ALSO IN DISAGREEMENT, THEN WE CAN TRUST THE MAJORITY IN THE GROUP OF 3. IF IT'S NOT IN THE PATH OF EITHER OF THE GROUPS OF 3 MEN, THEN TAKE THE PATH WITH THE TWO IN DISAGREEMENT YOU WILL HAVE TO SAY SOMETHING SO THAT I CAN'T KEEP MY WORD. SO, YOU WILL HAVE TO SAY, "YOU'LL CHOP MY HEAD OFF." IF THE STATEMENT IS TRUE, YOU WILL BE STRANGLED, BUT THEN THE STATEMENT WILL BECOME FALSE. IF THE STATEMENT IS FALSE, YOUR HEAD WILL BE CHOPPED OFF, BUT THEN THE STATEMENT WILL BECOME TRUE