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TuxDave
Lifer
It's not very hard. Just convert the wine bottles into binary, and for 1000 bottles, you'll need 10 binary digits. Have each servant represent a digit so...
Servant 1 drinks all the wine who's binary number has xxxxxxxxx1
Servant 2 drinks all the wine who's binary number has xxxxxxxx1x
Servant 3 drinks all the wine who's binary number has xxxxxxx1xx
etc....
After 24 hours, you just look at the combination of who died and you can identify the bottle.
TuxDave
Lifer
Fine... apparantly only computer people will see the simplicity of the answer. Next riddle! Requires alot less math.
There's 5050 coins in a treasure chest and 100 pirates. They put the numbers 1-100 in a hat and each of them draw a number out without replacement. That number represents how much money they'll get. At the end of the drawing, all the pirates who are unhappy with their number can toss it back in the hat and those pirates draw again. This continues until no one wants to toss their number in or only one person tosses it in.
If you were playing this game, when would you toss your number back in the hat and when will you not?
(NO MATH INVOLVED!)
There's 5050 coins in a treasure chest and 100 pirates. They put the numbers 1-100 in a hat and each of them draw a number out without replacement. That number represents how much money they'll get. At the end of the drawing, all the pirates who are unhappy with their number can toss it back in the hat and those pirates draw again. This continues until no one wants to toss their number in or only one person tosses it in.
If you were playing this game, when would you toss your number back in the hat and when will you not?
(NO MATH INVOLVED!)
DrPizza
Administrator Elite Member Goat Whisperer
Assumes all of the pirates use the same logic. It doesn't allow for greed. And, it doesn't allow for hope in the face of frustration. Using what you posted, "what will the 99 guy do?", etc. only the 1 guy would return his number. But, what about the guy with 20 who would rather take the chance that the guy with 40 was stupid or greedy or both - because 20 is pretty much chickenfeed to him.
AyashiKaibutsu
Diamond Member
I'll go with the classic tolkien riddle. What's in my pockets?
AyashiKaibutsu
Diamond Member
Damn it now you get to eat me...
MrDingleDangle
Lifer
do you have to eat all the placebos or just 1?
TuxDave
Lifer
* Stolen from my weekly newsletter....
You get a job and the boss offers you two possible salaries. All payments are in lump sums at the end of the year. You plan to stay for 6 years, what do you do?
A) $40,000 for your first year and an $8,000 raise every year afterwards
B) $20,000 for your first 6 months of works and a raise of $2,000 for every 6 months afterwards.
What should you choose?
You get a job and the boss offers you two possible salaries. All payments are in lump sums at the end of the year. You plan to stay for 6 years, what do you do?
A) $40,000 for your first year and an $8,000 raise every year afterwards
B) $20,000 for your first 6 months of works and a raise of $2,000 for every 6 months afterwards.
What should you choose?
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