I was looking for some classic material at brainden.com’s logic puzzle section when I came across a logic puzzle I had never seen before. It struck me that its statement and solution are extremely simple and elegant, while it takes a fair bit of lateral thinking to figure it out:
An Arab sheikh tells his two sons to race their camels to a distant city to see who will inherit his fortune. The one whose camel is slower wins. After wandering aimlessly for days, the brothers ask a wise man for guidance. Upon receiving the advice, they jump on the camels and race to the city as fast as they can.
What did the wise man say to them?
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