Riddle Time

[Sasori]

Can you figure this riddle out? I was interested because of a Previous thread.

A young man walks through the forest. He comes to a bridge. In front of the bridge is a large man carrying an axe. The man says, "If you want to cross this bridge, you must tell me a statement. If I think the statement is true, you will be strangled to death. If I say the statement is false, your head will be chopped off." A few minutes later, the young man walked over the bridge, while the larger man stood pondering. What was the statement the young man had given?

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[Raphael sannin]

"If you want to cross the bridge"????????????

 

[Retro Chaos]

The young man said "My head will be chopped off" - this is a paradox, for if the large man chops his head off, then that means the man's statement was in fact true, so the punishment would be wrong. Thus, the large man had to let him pass.