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Tellemall:
Imagine shadows telling colors. And what is shocking is the twenty or so other people who reason that way, too.

Emmaxmusic:
do we now have coloured shadow

Kokaine:
no you said shadow. please lets not argue. we are only humans we make mistakes.
lets be friends.

vivie01:
Sebi you don take me collect plenty 'likes' abi?
I was just looking for your trouble then ni oooo

9jajoseph:
Guy go appeal to your village people, them dey gamble with your sense

neoapocalypse:
I still happy say na gamble dem do with my , there's still hope to get it back. Yours has been used already and the thing sef no give dem better money

mega411:
man 2 will shout first.
Reason: he knows man 1 can see his hat and that of man3, so if him and man 3 are wearing thesame colour of hat man 1 would have shouted since there are just two blacks and two whites. Man 1's silence will mean him and man 3 are wearing different colour of hat and he can see man 3's hat.

9jajoseph:
Help me ask them ooo...... As I dey read their comment, I come dey ask myself if na me dey wrong

ademasta:
Weldon... You quickly modified your comment after reading mine... O shey!

AbaNgele:
Gush, i can't believe you said that. I didn't copy your comment edakun.

Super1759:
The criminals are wearing hats. They are told that there are two white hats and two black hats. The men initially don’t know what colour hat they are wearing. They are told to shout out the colour of the hat that they are wearing as soon as they know for certain what colour it is.

nawa for una. this is very simple.
1, They were told they have 2 whites and 2 blacks
2, only man 1 can see two people
3, He can see the colours of man 2 and 3
4, He can pick the sequence to know
5, automatically, he will know his colour and the fourth man's colour

man 1 will shout first

scaramucci:
Man 2. Because he knows that he and man 3 cannot be wearing the same color. For if they they do, then man 1, who can see both of them, should readily know the color of his hat. Man 1's silence is all the clue man 2 needs to know that he and man 3 are not wearing the same color.

vivie01:
Maybe my mistake then, its reflection not shadow.......

Kokaine:
no you skipped the part where i said friends

Kokaine:
no you skipped the part where i said friends

vivie01:
No, I actually skipped that part because it was very irrelevant.
You wanted to be a friend to a witch whose brain you 'wept' for? Amazing!!!!!
Okay ooo, the 'witch' does not see you as an enemy BUT does not need 'perfect genius' like you as a friend either.

Alexanderbells2:
Lmaooooooooo after yabbing her with your cohorts, you want to be friends now bá?

Kokaine:
my brother na so we see am ohhh.. na from clap dem take dey enter dance

Obinoscopy:
@Mega411 you are too much. I doff my hat.

Let's see if others will get it too

Oblongata:
egbon it taf tayed o

I had to think it well, here is my genius answer


The answer is

2

Since there are only two hats of each color, 1 is able to deduce his color when 2 and 3 are the same color. Though, in this situation 2 and 3 are different, so 1 doesn't shout. 2, not hearing 1 shouting, deduces that his hat is of the opposite color of 3 and shouts!

*I am oblongata

Kudos man.. Lay man's explanation.. I now get the gist/riddle clear enough (my brain jus returned ) @obinoscopy

Thanks all

neoapocalypse:
of course he knows his colour. Maybe be didn't explain well , Man 1 would have shouted if he had seen either 2 black hats or 2 white hats , if he sees two black hats that means he and Man 4 are wearing white ( since there are 2 white hats and 2 black hats ) , the same goes if he had seen 2 white hats which in turn means he's wearing a black hat definitely. Do you get it up to here ?. This can only mean he sees a white hat ( which is on Man 2 ) and a black hat ( which is on Man 3 ) , not knowing which colour he's wearing he keeps quiet. Man 2 picks up on this and realises Man 1 is seeing two different colours , seeing Man 3 has a black hat on he concludes he can only be wearing a white hat so he speaks up.
Very easy to solve