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The story served as inspiration for Raymond Smullyan's puzzle book by the same title, The Lady, or the Tiger?. [5] The first set of logic puzzles in the book had a similar scenario to the short story in which a king gives each prisoner a choice between a number of doors; behind each one was either a lady or a tiger. However, the king bases the ...
These last two stories were republished in 1963 and 1964, respectively, in editions illustrated by Maurice Sendak. "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963. His most famous fable, "The Lady, or the Tiger?" (1882), is about a man sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with a king's beloved ...
They show a traditional trial: the prisoner is put into a large arena with two doors. Behind one door is a beautiful woman - if the prisoner chooses that door, he is innocent and is required to marry the woman. Behind the other door is a ravenous tiger. If the prisoner chooses that door, he is deemed guilty and the tiger will kill him.
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The tiger quickly moves its jaws toward her, forcing her to swiftly remove her hand and step away. She then stops and poses, as if someone else is taking a photograph, before back climbing over ...
My friend & I offered the scenario that there WAS a tiger behind the door, but it was a LADY tiger, and the man and the tiger got married, and they lived happily ever after...until one day the tiger ate the man for leaving the toilet seat up! -65.122.209.163 08:29, 31 August 2006 (UTC) HAHAHAHA brilliant! --dan 01:06, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
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