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If I can't hear what the guess is, then you label the colors from 1 to N. If the last guy is color 1, the first guy guesses anything. If 2, the second guy... etc. By the end the last guy knows what color he is.
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Ah, okay. How many guesses does each person get?Originally posted by Ramo
Your second set. No communication means no communication.Comment
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I saw this problem first about a year ago, but the context in which I saw it seemed to imply that it was not a very well-known problem. Where did you hear it?Comment
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Depends on whether or not you believe in an afterlife..."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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LS is tricky
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ok hold up... i can do this...
Order of the Fly
Those that cannot curse, cannot heal.Comment
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It's a variation on one I've seen a few times before.Originally posted by civman2000
I saw this problem first about a year ago, but the context in which I saw it seemed to imply that it was not a very well-known problem. Where did you hear it?Comment
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A bar. The person who told me it seemed to imply the same.Where did you hear it?"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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What if a prisoner is colour-blind?THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTFComment
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*****. If 1 through N-1 guess incorrectly, does he kill everyone?Originally posted by Ramo
Depends on whether or not you believe in an afterlife...Comment
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ill be back... and if no one else answers when i come back, i WILL have one...
Order of the Fly
Those that cannot curse, cannot heal.Comment
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If a prisoner's colorblind, you better hope that N is much larger than 1...
The dungeon master is a patient man. He won't kill anyone until all the guesses are in (but if you dawdle, he'll kill you)."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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You might as well say that all N people guess simultaneously. If at least one of them is correct, they all live; if they're all wrong, they all die.Originally posted by Kuciwalker
*****. If 1 through N-1 guess incorrectly, does he kill everyone?Comment
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Obviously they schedule themselves. Line up, every minute the next one gives a guess. This guess is based on some function of the others. I'm trying to think of one that guarantees a correct guess by the last one in line. The only information each has is that all previous guesses were false.Comment
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Oh, I guess that works just as well as guessing in order.Originally posted by civman2000
You might as well say that all N people guess simultaneously. If at least one of them is correct, they all live; if they're all wrong, they all die.Comment
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