You can ask one guard one question and then make your choice on which door to pass through. One door leads to heaven and one door leads to hell. Here’s the basic idea: You’re met with a choice between two identical doors with an identical guard at each. It is probably most well known for having a role in the 1986 movie Labyrinth. The riddle was coined by mathematician Raymond Smullyan and goes by many names-“A Fork in the Road,” “Heaven and Hell,” and “The Two Doors,” among them. Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
Now string them together, and answer me this, Next, tell me what’s always the last thing to mend,Īnd finally give me the sound often heardĭuring the search for a hard-to-find word. Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Harry is tasked with cracking this puzzle:įirst think of the person who lives in disguise, Rowling gives a nod to the Sphinx by putting one in the maze during the Triwizard Tournament. The Harry Potter series is teeming with playful language and cleverness, so it’s only right that a juicy riddle made its way into the series.
