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Durak
Canada3685 Posts
On March 27 2009 21:45 BottleAbuser wrote: Durak! You played Betrayal At Krondor also. I loved that  terr13's riddle is awesome btw. I like the solution. I also have Betrayal in Antara. Very fun games. | ||
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United Kingdom2770 Posts
On March 27 2009 22:02 fanatacist wrote: English is a language where people put a lot of unnecessary words. Deal with it. It could mean that every prisoner, including ones that have already gone, would be equally up for choosing. Equally kind of prevents dumbasses from asking that question ("can people go twice lawl?"). I'm sorry I deleted most of my post but seriously? "Deal with it"? Is that the best you can say... Look at the entire riddle there not one single word in there I could replace/remove other than "equally at random" its a very well written riddle. I was wondering if the solution was just wait 100 days and on the 100th day the guy says "All of us have been here" and they all get out free... so the lightbulb is just put there to confuse you and it's actually pretty simple... there are 100 prisoners.. 1 picked per day, on the 99th day 99 have been picked so the next day, whoever gets picked knows he is the last guy... So I'm not picking at it for the sake of picking at it, I have nothing to "get over" I was geniunely trying to solve the riddle... "A prisoner chosen at random" would mean precisely what you are saying "equally at random" means... Also explain the question "can people go twice lawl"... you make it sound dumb but.. obviously people CAN go twice and WILL go twice if not many times more unless my absurdly simple solution is correct.. so I really don't see what you are on about  I was wondering/hoping if equally at random means people are chosen at random, but once you are chosen you will not be chosen again until everyone else is chosen, thus "equally" at random, no one person is picked "randomly" more often than another...see? Not so hard to see why I might have thought that.. and it's pretty funny solution if it's right. So? Any thoughts/suggestions? Other than "deal with it" and some shitty example that doesn't even make sense-_- | ||
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
On March 28 2009 03:47 Reason wrote: I was wondering/hoping if equally at random means people are chosen at random, but once you are chosen you will not be chosen again until everyone else is chosen, thus "equally" at random, no one person is picked "randomly" more often than another...see? Not so hard to see why I might have thought that.. and it's pretty funny solution if it's right. So? Any thoughts/suggestions? Other than "deal with it" and some shitty example that doesn't even make sense-_- i guess it's interpreters like you who are the reason for "equally at random" as opposed to just "random". the point of equally is to cement it in your head that everyone has a 1/100 chance: an equal chance. hence, people can and will go more than once. once one person goes, if they can't go again, all others have a 1/99 chance to be picked and theirs is 0, not exactly equal is it? | ||
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United Kingdom2770 Posts
if that wording wasn't there I wouldn't have been trying to interpret anything, it would have been clear. Thanks for explaining it though, if your tone was a bit irritating. Edit: At random means just that, everybody has an equal chance of being picked no matter how many times they have been picked. Random isn't exactly an uncommon word. This is the meaning of the word. There's no reason to "cement" anything, if the person reading this doesn't understand the word "random" they aren't very well going to solve the riddle now are they? I understand random but have never in my life seen "equally at random" so I wanted to know what it meant, and if it was in any way different. Sorry for not being God. | ||
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