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by bartc 2081 days ago
Assume there are seven billion people on the planet. One of them knows the location of a specific hidden treasure. I know who it is and I ask you to guess who it is, but you have no possible way of knowing or even getting a hint about it.

You pick some random person. I then bring in another stranger and tell you that the person who knows where the hidden treasure is is either the random person you chose or the one I brought in.

At this point, there are only two possibilities:

1. You happened to randomly choose the right person on Earth and in my surprise, I had to pick some other random stranger to pretend they knew the secret.

2. You chose a total rando who has no idea what's going on and the person I brought in is in fact the one who knows where the treasure is