[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

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I'm going to have to walk on by on this one, there is a level of logic (or even guess work) going on that makes it difficult to understand how each wise one knows what the other is thinking, and why it takes 5 days before one of them gives an answer to the gaoler ..... and upon what that answer is based.....

I'm not quite sure where your sticking point is. In a day or three I'll put up my version of a full answer, and hopefully that will do it. If it's still unclear then, I'll happily do my best to explain further.