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igotmyown
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States4291 Posts
November 09 2009 06:48 GMT
#21
This is pretty much the same problem as what was posted recently. Different conditions but almost the almost identical deductions, you can do better than that...
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12816 Posts
November 09 2009 06:52 GMT
#22
On November 09 2009 15:48 igotmyown wrote:
This is pretty much the same problem as what was posted recently. Different conditions but almost the almost identical deductions, you can do better than that...

link me
Life is run, it is dance, it is fast, passionate and BAM!, you dance and sing and booze while you can for now is the time and time is mine. Smile and laugh when still can for now is the time and soon you die!
igotmyown
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States4291 Posts
November 09 2009 07:00 GMT
#23
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=104760
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evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12816 Posts
November 09 2009 07:06 GMT
#24
On November 09 2009 16:00 igotmyown wrote:
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=104760
[image loading]

I see. You can't expect me to know every blog in existence and command me to "do better than that" though :p

I got tons of other puzzles, just stay in tuned!
Life is run, it is dance, it is fast, passionate and BAM!, you dance and sing and booze while you can for now is the time and time is mine. Smile and laugh when still can for now is the time and soon you die!
JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
November 09 2009 23:40 GMT
#25
just saw this thread
these questions are not really a puzzle, they kind of solve themselves.. but anyway

here's my thought process
+ Show Spoiler +
i'ma call em s1 s2 B (non-blind dude 1, nonblind-dude 2, blind dude) in that order

so what can we have? let's just go thru the possibilities

BWW
WBW
WWB

BBW
BWB
WBB

BBB


we can't obviously have a BWW or a WBW situation cos then s1 or s2 will instantly know they're B
so we're down to..
WWB
BBW
BWB
WBB
BBB

so.. hmm gets interesting

S1:W sees WB, S2:W sees WB
S1:B sees BW, S2:B sees BW
S1:B sees WB, S2:W sees BB
S1:W sees BB, S2:B sees WB
S1:B sees BB, S2:B sees BB

Now we can also see we can't have the second situation, because if they see a BW situation, they'd auto-know they were B
we're down to..

S1:W sees WB, S2:W sees WB
S1:B sees WB, S2:W sees BB
S1:W sees BB, S2:B sees WB
S1:B sees BB, S2:B sees BB

now they can't figure shit out
so the blind dude comes in, does this thinking somehow, and figures out "holy shit, i must have a black hat"
(\o/)  If you want it, you find a way. Otherwise you find excuses. No exceptions.
 /_\   aka Shinbi (requesting a name change since 27/05/09 ☺)
gyth
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
657 Posts
November 10 2009 03:05 GMT
#26
Oh noes, I'm dumber than the blind person assumes everyone is =_=

And in the other problem. What if D saw 2 white, didn't trust the guards and just wanted to live 9 more minutes...
The plural of anecdote is not data.
category
Profile Joined July 2009
United States85 Posts
November 10 2009 03:55 GMT
#27
On November 09 2009 14:25 Kwidowmaker wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 09 2009 13:13 dcberkeley wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
I think in the question it should say that the people do say something if they know their own hat colour. And it's not really a math puzzle, it's more like a logic puzzle.


Math is logic.

I mean numbers are made of empty sets, come on.


Yeah this is so right =D.
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