But How?

[Loony BoB]

OK, if you already know this one, please don't ruin it for other people or anything. That would suck. If you don't know it but think you know the answer, then PM me. You get one guess. Well, you can have one guess per 30 posts in this thread.

Now. The rules are simple - Guess how it was done.

A man walks into a two-room shack. It's impossible to get from one room to the other without going outside - the rooms are not connected with doors. In one room, there are three identical light switches. In the next room, there are there identical lights. The man goes into each room once and straight away he knows which switch leads to each light. How does he know?

[Tasura]

is each light and switch a different colour

Edit: say a green switch a red switch, and a blue switch, and there are lights of the same colour...just to clarify my question

[omnitarian]

Are the switches/lights labelled?

Are there visible wires in either room?

Has the man ever been into the shack before?

[Kirobaito]

How big are the light bulbs?

[Levian]

Is the shack more than ten feet tall?

[Loony BoB]

The lights are identical - all normal light bulbs. No colour coding or anything. No labels. No visible wiring. The man has never seen the shack in his life, nor any plans of it.

The light bulbs are regular sized light bulbs.

The shack is 500 feet tall. It's a really tall shack.

[Psychotic]

Would he break his hand trying to change one of the light bulbs?

[RSL]

Did he go into the switch room first?

[Agent Proto]

are there any windows?

[Tasura]

is the positioning of the lights/switches relevant to which light goes with which switch

[Loony BoB]

Would he break his hand trying to change one of the light bulbs?

BURN IN HELL. I mean no.

As for which room he went into first, this isn't a yes/no thing so that's up to you to figure out. This is a "Guess how he did it" one.

There are no windows. There is, however, a lovely sunroof in the room with the switches, and the sun lights up the room quite easily.

The positioning of the lightbulbs is completely irrelevant.

[RSL]

What? I asked it in yes/no fashion!

[Loony BoB]

Well, you can ask questions about the shack, but as for how he did it, you have to guess which order and so on - that's up to you. Basically, you are the man who is doing this, you just have to figure out how to do it... but you can ask me anything you like about the shack.

[omnitarian]

Did the man know which switch went to each light before he left the shack and went to the second room?

[Loony BoB]

I can't tell you what the man did, but no, there was no way to tell which switch went to which light without entering both rooms.