After the second question, we have correctly identified one god (A or C) as either True or False. So we reframe the 3rd question to that god simply as “Is B Random”

All identities are now known. Note that if the first god asked happens to be Random, only two questions are necessary. Also note that the meaning of ‘Ja’ and ‘Da’ are never determined, and that those meanings are not relevant to the solution.

True can answer this question because either the native word for yes or no is truthful (if yes, the truthfully the answer is yes, and if no then truthfully the answer is no). False cannot answer this question because the question can only be answered truthfully, no false answer can be given. Therefore if an answer is given you are speaking with True. If not you are speaking with False.

Now we know (after one or two questions) which god is random. Determining which god of the remaining two is True and which is False again relies on a question only one of them can answer. Pose this question to either God: “Is your answer to this question your native word for yes?”

If no answer is given, we know that the god we’re speaking with (1) is either True or False. Now we must determine which of the other two (say 2 and 3) is random. To do so, we ask a question only one of the two can answer. Ask 2 the question “Will 3 answer the next question asked to it truthfully”. If 2 is Random, he will respond. If two is either True or False he will be unable to respond because he cannot know the next answer Random will give.

Pick any god to start with. Let’s say ‘1’. Ask 1 the question “Will the other two gods both answer truthfully to the next question asked?” The truthful and untruthful gods will be unable to answer this question because random’s answer is unknown (completely at random) and therefore a guaranteed truthful or false answer is unachievable. Therefore, if an answer is given, the answering god must be Random.

daverd’s solution is interesting. I came up with another one. Attribution: a coworker helped with the first part. The underlying thought to the solution is unanswerable questions.

But if you happen to end up asking the random god those questions, random could conveniently randomly choose all the right answers to lead you into believing it is either the true or false god.
Does anyone agree with what I am saying or am I missing something really bad here? I just see a lot of loopholes. But to the creator, still very entertaining.

Why would the counterfactual question elicit a truthful response from the true and false god? false God would still respond falsely since it would protect what it would say by lying about what it would actually say. It would take asking the question that the countefactual question contains, then asking the counterfactual question in a ‘would you say no’, and a ‘would you say yes’ to confirm if it is true or false.

can anyone make sense of this? The first step says to ask B the counterfactual question, but then the next step says go the god that was identified as not being random from the previous question. However, the first step says “If B answers ‘ja’, then either B is Random (and is answering randomly), or B is not Random and the answer indicates that A is indeed Random.”How do you confirm which one is not random from the first step because it still says that B can either be this god or that god

To frame the basis of the answers a different way:
positive x positive = negative x negative = positive

negative x positive = positive x negative = negative

I’ve had some of the most brilliant minds working on a solution all day, go to the last page for the how or read all the pages to read the various theories,
http://www.uselessjunk.net/showthread.php?t=288498

wait…
the whole answer relies on “Assume that ‘ja’ means yes and ‘da’ means no.”

what kinda puzzle is solved by assuming an answer… the question says you cannot know which god your talking to and which means yes or no.. if you assume, your wrong at the start…

How did we find out the meaning of ja and da?

"*Ask god B, “If I asked you ‘Is A Random?’, would you say ‘ja’?”. If B answers ‘ja’, then either B is Random (and is answering randomly), or B is not Random and the answer indicates that A is indeed Random. "

How do we know that ‘ja’ doesn’t mean “false.”

Clever puzzle, but the explanation is a little long-winded. The two tricks are: 1.phrasing the question that way (“If I asked this, would you say this”) elicits a truthful response from both True and False, and 2. ask about Random first.

as question you came to terms with the reality that it was all an illusion and all the gods were all the same.