AN INGENIOUS PUZZLE.
A English barrister contributes to The Times an ingenious and apparently insoluble puzzle, which may be summarised thus:—
A says to B, I will teach you to be a barrister; half fee now, and the other half when you win your first case. B paid, was taught, and called to the Bar. but failed to do anything at all for two years. A then said to himself: If I sue him for the instalment of my fee, and win the case, he. wall have to pay me; if I lose, then he has won his first case, and will therefore have to pay me. That seems unanswerable until one pets Be view: If A wins, then I have lost my first case and need not pay him; and if he loses, then by the judgment of the court I need not pay him. So that is that; and there is no evident solution.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20959, 24 February 1930, Page 14
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156AN INGENIOUS PUZZLE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20959, 24 February 1930, Page 14
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