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Originally Posted by dsvick

OMK has a point - and not on top of his head either
In the set up you said that the prisoners were all told they were marked with either Green or Blue. So actually, as soon as there were at least 2 prisoners with each color, they should have been able to figure it out in X number of days, where X is the number of people marked with the least represented color.

aha !!!!

(just thoughts. it's not *that* big an "aha".)

Spoiler:

maybe the "new information" that pdurrant mentioned is the fact that so far, no-one has left. because maybe prisoner N°2 didn't know that he was only the second one ; for all he knew, there might have been 50 before him of whom 49 had managed to leave. right ?