06-16-2010, 07:56 PM | #31 |
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Here it goes:
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06-17-2010, 02:56 AM | #32 |
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06-17-2010, 03:45 AM | #33 |
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OK I give up. I started 3 different solutions and got lost in the reasoning in all 3 of them.
I even began again and tried to go super simple, Spoiler:
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06-17-2010, 05:00 AM | #35 |
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Thoughts towards a solution, but I get lost quickly:
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06-17-2010, 05:01 AM | #36 |
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Obs20,
I won't look at your solution just yet, but you are seriously starting to intimidate me |
06-17-2010, 05:20 AM | #37 |
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06-17-2010, 08:12 AM | #38 |
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I gave in and looked at OBS's answer. I had initially started in that direction but stopped, my problem with it was
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06-17-2010, 08:32 AM | #39 |
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This is really a logical puzzle given embodiment. It's not a logical analysis of a real situation. So bringing in human variation and fallibility is the wrong way to approach a solution. |
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06-17-2010, 08:46 AM | #41 |
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Okay, thanks to your clue I took it one step further. But this is making my head hurt!
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But even so, all this takes into account that the prisoners only just realized that there are two colours only, and both are represented. But they knew that from the start, didn't they? And if so, shouldn't they have left sooner? What changed? |
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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. |
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