Thread: The Tower and the Towns Puzzle
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Old 07-07-2010, 10:45 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by GeoffC View Post
Of course and none of them stipulate how the first evening guess is negated.
See my example.

Also:

Spoiler:
There is no first evening guess. Neither of them knows how many towns there are on the first evening, so neither of them makes a guess to the Gaoler.

One of them might imagine that if a certain thing was true then the other wise man might know (not guess) the number of towns.
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