Friday Puzzle/Game - NOW BETTER TASTING!

[WSUCougar]

There are ten colors listed below in alphabetical order. I have randomly mixed their order and placed them in a vertical list numbered 1-10, top to bottom. The object of the game is to be the first to list them in their correct order. To obtain clues, you may ask each color any question, one at a time (one per post, and you may not post questions back to back).

1. Black
2. Blue
3. Brown
4. Gray
5. Green
6. Orange
7. Purple
8. Red
9. White
10. Yellow

Note the following:
> Each color can only see who is immediately ahead of them and behind them in line - and doesn't know what spot they are in unless it's first or last.
> The colors are divided into three groups as follows:

Cools (truth-tellers)
Blue
Green
Purple

Hots (liars)
Red
Orange
Yellow

Fickles (both)
Brown
Black
White
Gray

[Fido]

Are fickles consistant? Does each always either lie or tell the truth or is their answer random?

[rkmsuf]

Where is John Titor when I need him...

[Coffee Warlord]

Welp, so much for that question!

[QuikSand]

Note the following:
> Each color can only see who is ahead of them and behind them in line - and doesn't know what spot they are in unless it's first or last.

I think I bear the responsibility for this ambiguity... I think the proper wording should really be:

> Each color can only see who is immediately ahead of them and behind them in line - and doesn't know what spot they are in unless it's first or last.

[QuikSand]

I wonder if it might be wise to keep this unrevealed, and instead justtell us how many of each there are in the group?

Though conditional questions can poke through this stuff, I fear.

[WSUCougar]

Are fickles consistant? Does each always either lie or tell the truth or is their answer random?
They each fluctuate predictably back and forth between true and false answers (T/F/T/F), but their initial pattern may start with either.

[Fido]

Blue - What color is in front of you?

[WSUCougar]

Blue - What color is in front of you?
Orange

[Coffee Warlord]

What color is behind you, Blueboy?

[Fido]

Green- What color is in front of you?
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[WSUCougar]

What color is behind you, Blueboy?
Black.

Green- What color is in front of you?
Red

[Coffee Warlord]

Heh. As me and fido work out the obvious ones.

Yo Green. Who's on your ass.

[Fido]

In Coffee's terms:

Purple - who's ass are you on?

[Coffee Warlord]

And we'll just finish the Easy Obvious Ones by asking who Purple is behind.

Now for the fun questions!

[Fido]

Red - who's NOT in front of you?

[WSUCougar]

Yo Green. Who's on your ass.
Orange

Purple - who's ass are you on?
white

who Purple is behind
I'll assume that you meant who's behind purple: Gray

[Coffee Warlord]

Yellow. Are you in first?

[WSUCougar]

Red - who's NOT in front of you?
Orange

Yellow. Are you in first?
Yes

NOTE: Keep in mind that these are both liars, and nothing they say can be trusted. They are not merely "opposite of the truth" liars.

[Coffee Warlord]

Are they 'anything but the truth' liars? IE they cannot say something that is true, correct? Or, as I re-read your above line...is it simply that they will say whatever the hell they want at any given time?

[Fido]

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Orange
NOTE: Keep in mind that these are both liars, and nothing they say can be trusted. They are not merely "opposite of the truth" liars.
Right, but Red is a liar, and therefore should not make truthful statements. The statement he just made is the truth - Orange is NOT in front of him.

[Fido]

Gray - who is in front of you?

(it alternates t/f/t/f/ lets find out if its starting on t or f)

[Coffee Warlord]

Gray, are you in last?

[WSUCougar]

A liar's answers cannot be trusted, but that doesn't mean they can't be true. The only reason you know that Red's answer was true is because of prior questioning.

Otherwise, a liar becomes a truth-teller simply by reverse wording the questions as Fido did.

[WSUCougar]

Gray - who is in front of you?
White

Gray, are you in last?
No

[Fido]

[removed now irrelevant question about gray]

[Coffee Warlord]

I should have the right answer, I think, depending on the answer to Fido's question.

[Fido]

A liar's answers cannot be trusted, but that doesn't mean they can't be true. The only reason you know that Red's answer was true is because of prior questioning.

Otherwise, a liar becomes a truth-teller simply by reverse wording the questions as Fido did.
OK...so the three categories are:
Cools - answers can alwaysbe trusted
Hots - answers can never be trusted
Fickles - alternate between being a hot and a cool.

[WSUCougar]

Gray - who is behind you?
Yellow

[WSUCougar]

OK...so the three categories are:
Cools - answers can alwaysbe trusted
Hots - answers can never be trusted
Fickles - alternate between being a hot and a cool.
Correct

[Fido]

White - who is in front of you?

[Coffee Warlord]

Repeat Fido's question, now that he's in truth mode. Gray, who is behind you.

THEN I'll have the answer.

[WSUCougar]

White - who is in front of you?
Yellow

Repeat Fido's question, now that he's in truth mode. Gray, who is behind you.
Red

[Fido]

White - who is behind you?

[WSUCougar]

White - who is behind you?
Purple

[Fido]

Brown
White
Purple
Gray
Red
Green
Orange
Blue
Black
Yellow

[WSUCougar]

Brown
White
Purple
Gray
Red
Green
Orange
Blue
Black
Yellow
Yup!

I'm gonna go dunk my head in an ice bucket now. My brain hurts.

[Coffee Warlord]

Heh. Serves me right for going afk for 5 minutes.