Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife

[AB Editor]

Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife.

Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has.

The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law.

One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens?

[huddsgiants]

The village has a law that does not allow for adultery.The women of the village would never disobey this law.
Therefore:-
Who are they being unfaithful with?

[dothawkes31]

This sounds like a village my ancestors lived in in Heckington Lincolnshire, they're all related to one another too.

[huddsgiants]

The village has a law that does not allow for adultery.
The women of the village would never disobey this law.

So who have they unfaithful with?
Was it the queen they committed adultery so knowbody dare say anything

[rowanwitch]

Have they cheated with the other wives though ? this question relies upon the heterosexual assumption to work, in this case square bear is probably corrrect however if the men are all 'seeing ' each other they become a little britain sketch and all live happily everafter

[EdwardNashton]

Nothing, because if the village contains only 100 married couples then the adulterous husbands don't have a greeeeat deal of choice who they cheat with.

As a result, any woman who condemns the unfaithful husband would be the person he'd cheated WITH and would likely be ostracized by the community (regardless of the fact they are likely all guilty of the same scenario). This would also explain why, if every other woman knows a husband is cheating, they don't tell the poor woman. This is also assuming from the wording that the law the women would never break is the 'killing your husband' one.

Equally, if the men are all cheating with each other then it raises a secondary problem of proving it as it would require finding the two women who didn't know there was some extra-marital snuggling going on.

Alternatively, they kill all the husbands as they're all cheaters.

I'm leaning towards the first option, they have to be cheating with someone and unless all 100 are closeted, there are some pretty important questions about the wife's fidelity which also need answering.

[Rebecca_SJ]

I suspect all the husbands will wind up getting killed.