Does anybody know the answer to this riddle?

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Dan J

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An old king is about to die and he has no offspring to inherit the crown. So he summons the three wisest men from his kingdom and puts them to a test. He tells them that he is about to put them in a room and have his aide put a hat on each of them. Each hat may or may not have a dot on it, but at least one hat will have a dot. They may not touch the hats, nor communicate in any way. The first one that correctly identifies whether his hat has a dot will become the next king. If he is wrong, or if he breaks the rules, he will be killed. Then he sends all three wise men into the room.
The king then tells his aide to put dotted hats on all three.
A few minutes later one of the wise men returns and announces proudly that he has a dot. How did he know?
Adjoa, he did not take a risk because he walked out proudly so obviously he did not guess and remember if he was wrong he would have died so another reason why he didn't guess.
 
In order to answer this question it will be helpful to identify the wise men
as A, B and C. Let's say person A got the right answer. Here's
what person A did:

Person A saw that B and C both had dots. A put himself in B's
situation. Assuming A did not have a dot, then B would see one dot on C
and none on A. Person B would then think, "if I had no dot, then C would
see no dots and know that C had the only dot, and C would be able to answer
immediately. However, since C does not answer, I must have a dot."
However, A sees that B doesn't answer, which means A must also have a dot,
so A goes to the king and declares victory.
 
He saw that neither of the other 2 men had dots on their hats.
Knowing that one of the hats had to have a dot, he knew it was him :)

took me a while, hahaa x)

xx
 
Well, he may not be able to see his own hat but surly he can see the other two men's hats and noticed that both had dots on them! The odds were that his hat also had the dot so he took the risk!!! Lol that was easy
 
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