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ITT: We do fun INDUCTION brain teasers (hat puzzles etc.)
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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:27 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Here is a common variation of the HAT PUZZLE. Unlike the TTT blue/red button thought experiment, this is a LOGIC problem (not a feeling problem) that has a correct answer.
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Three poasters are competing for a girl's attention. She's mildly receptive to their jestermaxxing and decides to give them a few minutes of attention. She has them all face each other and tells them: "I'm going to place a hat on each of your heads so that you can only see each other's, not your own. Each hat is either red, blue, or yellow (but there may be multiple or none of a given color). You will all guess at the same time. If any of you gets your hat color right, I'll make out with each of you for like 5 seconds. You may agree on a strategy beforehand and let me know when you're ready."
What strategy can they use to ensure that at least one of them guesses their own color correctly? |
Date: April 26th, 2026 11:30 PM Author: internet-worthy odious mental disorder chapel everyone says 'red' at the same time! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845612) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:32 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen There isn't necessarily one of each color. Those are just the three possible colors. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845618) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:31 PM Author: grizzly university (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845614) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:32 PM Author: internet-worthy odious mental disorder chapel wait I didn't read it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845617) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:33 PM Author: Ruddy puppy organic girlfriend i'd look at the other guys hats and tell them what color they are so they can answer correctly
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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:33 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen You all guess at the same time. You don't have the hats yet when you're working out your strategy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845622) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:34 PM Author: internet-worthy odious mental disorder chapel so what does the 'strategizing' consist in? why isn't telling him his hat color a strategy?
edit: oh, I see. |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:37 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Sorry I stealth edited that poast to clarify that you don't have the hats yet when you're agreeing on the strategy. Your task is to figure out how to guarantee that one of you gets it right when you all guess your colors simultaneously.
We're assuming they all want to win the kisses despite being POASTERS. |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:36 PM Author: Ruddy puppy organic girlfriend yeah i'd blurt it out as soon as she put them on their heads before we all guess
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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:37 PM Author: Swashbuckling nudist pit karate the poasters would decide to make out with each other (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845632) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:38 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Cr and 180 you posted this at the same time as I posted "We're assuming they all want to win the kisses despite being POASTERS." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845633) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:38 PM Author: Ruddy puppy organic girlfriend to make sure you don't fight the hypo, the other poasters are benzo and nyuug (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845634) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:40 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845641) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 10:37 AM Author: Nubile gas station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846359) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:34 AM Author: dull hissy fit office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845721) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 3:44 AM Author: irradiated claret address wrinkle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845879) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 10:36 AM Author: Nubile gas station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846358) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 11:12 AM Author: mind-boggling crimson cuck macaca Obviously TCR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49848796) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:49 PM Author: internet-worthy odious mental disorder chapel i'm stumped. if you can't share the other 2 men's hat colors as part of a strategy, i don't see how it works.
just seeing the other two men's hat colors gives you no information about your own hat color since there are no rules governing color distribution (your hat color could still be Y, R, B regardless of the other men's colors). |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:51 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Well the idea is to come up with a way to guarantee one of you is correct. That's a slightly different question from "how does anyone know their own color?" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845662) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:05 AM Author: internet-worthy odious mental disorder chapel but it's the same question, because you are looking for a strategy in which everyone gives Y/R/B as their own answer such that at least one is correct.
if the rule is "All or none of your hats could be Y/R/B in ANY combination regardless of the color of any other man's hat" then there can be no strategy because there is no rule. seeing the other hats provides no information as to the distribution of colors (no rule), other than the information about what the other 2 men's hat colors are, but this cannot be signaled as part of the strategy.
there is nothing we can all agree to say that guarantees one of us is right.
edit: I see it now |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:10 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Well you're thinking in the right direction of like, aren't there too many possibilities to cover with the three guesses? But the problem space is smaller than it seems. It helps to assign numbers to the colors and start looking at the possibilities that way.
edit: "other than the information about what the other 2 men's hat colors are, but this cannot be signaled as part of the strategy." – They can't "signal" that information bc they're guessing simultaneously, but they can still incorporate it into their guesses |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:14 AM Author: Frozen field giraffe The blue/red button thought experiment is a clean logic problem. You don't understand the logic and incorrectly think it is about feels and therefore you choose incorrectly, resulting in your death. Life is one big IQ test that you failed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845692) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:16 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen It could be made a clean logic problem if you specified that everyone on Earth can be assumed to be a rational actor. Then there's a correct answer, red. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845695) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:18 AM Author: Frozen field giraffe No. The logic exists independently of whether any specific individual is a rational actor. With red, you always live. With blue, you only possibly live contingent on others' acts. You either understand this and live, thereby passing the IQ test, or you don't understand this and perhaps die, thereby failing the IQ test. You failed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845696) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:22 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen I might be unusually principled but I would rather be wrong about people and die trying to save us all than take the self-interested route and survive with blood on my hands. I think a lot of other people have that same intuition of "I would do the thing that can save everyone and assume half of people have similar morals to mine." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845701) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:27 AM Author: Frozen field giraffe I think this might be one of those irregular verbs with an irregular conjugation: I am principled, you don't understand the logic, he/she is a flaming retard. As for the hysterical "self-interested route" and "blood on my hands", if everyone picks red, everyone survives, and so the only people with "blood on their hands" (lol) are dumbs with their own blood on their hands. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:28 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen We understand the logic. And if you're so great, try to solve the hat puzzle! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845712) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:29 AM Author: Frozen field giraffe No, I don't think you do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845714) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 10:37 AM Author: Nubile gas station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846362) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:34 AM Author: fragrant crystalline ape parlour Your risk is way too high. Your projected outcome is skewed towards your own demise based on values when most people are going to push red to save themselves and not have to worry about whether they'll be killed. You'll never get to 50% of people who are willing to risk dying for other people. Therefore 100% of red pushers live, 100% of blue pushers die, 100% of the time. It would be stupid to die for your beliefs. Save yourself! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845720) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:41 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen I'm sure there are forums where everyone is like, "Obviously blue! Most people would just choose blue right? Since it's the right thing to do so we all survive?" but you guys are like the most cynical people on the internet and don't understand why anyone would risk their dEmIsE for the collective good (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845731) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:45 AM Author: fragrant crystalline ape parlour All anyone has to do to not die is push red. It's safe, it's secure. Blue is giga idealistic. In the end blue is foolish. If you pushed blue and were about to die you'd be thinking damn I should have pushed red. Boy that was stupid. You'll never get all the world to agree. Most people are unwilling to go down with the ship. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845742) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:01 AM Author: Ruddy puppy organic girlfriend don't discourage them. after the holocaust of the blues we will finally be free of women, immigrants, and libs.
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:09 AM Author: fragrant crystalline ape parlour OP is a good egg worth saving (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845769) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:11 AM Author: Ruddy puppy organic girlfriend we'll put him last in the button line.
once we show him the running tally and it is clear hitting the blue button won't save the blues from their well deserved genocide i assume he will press red.
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:18 AM Author: fragrant crystalline ape parlour 🤞🏻 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845775) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 10:42 AM Author: Nubile gas station I was team blue for a moment until I realized that red is better
I do think it matters if you stipulate whether kids are involved or if you limit it to people who are generally competent to consider the issue. If there’s lots of kids etc involved then you may figure that there’s enough blameless non rational actors we want to save that the ethical choice is to switch to blue and try to save them. If you’re assuming a game theory sterile abstraction where “everyone” is just rational actors then it’s absolutely red. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 10:59 AM Author: wine vibrant depressive center if we assume everyone is a rational actor the hypo is solved with red. but we know that's not true.
empirically we can see many people choose blue and cannot be dissuaded. so we know in reality many people will choose blue.
the hypo requires universal participation, so "opting out" by choosing red is bullshit. you're still participating, team red interprets it as a moral choice. but we know from observation that many people will choose blue and that humans are perfect rational actors. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:14 PM Author: Frozen field giraffe It doesn't matter whether or not everyone is rational, it just matters what you do contingent on what everyone else is doing. You either definitely live, or you possibly die, irrespective of everyone else's rationality. (Although if you want to express it in game theoretic terms, "red" is a strictly dominant strategy for everyone, therefore you should absolutely pick "red" in all circumstances, and "all pick red" is a dominant strategy equilibrium) Life is a big IQ test. Those that pick "blue" fail. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 10:46 AM Author: Nubile gas station I think the key issue is whether or not anyone is constrained from making the logical decision. If there are people who are going to push blue because of disability or they’re too young etc then I think there’s a moral argument that everyone has to choose blue (and you individually have to) because it will stop harm. That’s what the blue people are assuming—they start off with an assumption of “well some people will always choose blue” so we need to do the option that saves them. But if we are in pure sterile abstraction thought land, anyone whose initial impulse is blue is an idiot.
The funny thing is that these people are probably thinking along Kantian lines when they hit blue but 1) red is fully consistent with categorical imperative and 2) Kant’s political writings are explicit that you have to go with the world you want to see. If you’re a lib sitting and thinking “well maybe nobody should pick blue in the first instance but somebody will so I’ll save them and pick blue,” then it’s a self fulfilling prophecy. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 10:50 AM Author: fragrant crystalline ape parlour The universe doesn't care about your feelings. Blue is a death sentence. You subliminally want to die. You only have one option to survive, to push red. Women, children, the indigent. Their best hope is for someone to convince them to preserve themselves. All blue pushers are going to die 100% of the time. It's very tragic but we cannot risk our own lives to save everyone. It's black and white here. You either live or you kill yourself. The blue pill is that most people will choose life. Can't save everybody, unfortunately. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846415) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:25 AM Author: federal area just spit dip on the floor and call her a dumb whore and be done with it. millennials are such fags. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845705) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:27 AM Author: Frozen field giraffe This would seem to solve the problem. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845707) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:33 AM Author: federal area why does the op say "make out with you for five seconds" like thats relevant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845718) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:29 AM Author: fragrant crystalline ape parlour I'm a Liberal Artist imo. I'm a failure at STEM. I can't compute logic problems. I guess I would just write a short story about the experience and double down on jestermaxxing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845713) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:31 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen 180. A computer science background does help with this problem. Like it uses a specific... operation you only really encounter in CS or advanced formal logic classes. But I'm sure non-STEM people can figure it out too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845715) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:35 AM Author: fragrant crystalline ape parlour I eagerly await the Big Reveal whereupon my mind will be blown. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845722) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:46 AM Author: Ruddy puppy organic girlfriend this is one of those old puzzle book things where you sum up the hats mod 3 to reach a target number that makes no intuitive sense at all but seems to work despite that if you brute force it out
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:46 AM Author: fragrant crystalline ape parlour I have no clue what you're saying, peeface tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845746) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:49 AM Author: Ruddy puppy organic girlfriend im gay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845748) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:55 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Crrrrr SOLUTION: (Before you go on - if you have a CS background and haven't figured it out, try again with the hint that it involves modular division.)
You assign each color a number 0, 1, or 2.
You reason that when the three hats' numbers are added up, the total 0-6 falls into one of these categories: - { 0, 3, 6 }: have a remainder of 0 when divided by 3 - { 1, 4 }: have a remainder of 1 when divided by 3 - { 2, 5 }: have a remainder of 2 when divided by 3
So if you each cover one of those 3 possibilities, it's guaranteed that exactly one of you will be correct.
You assign one person to remainder 0, one to remainder 1, and one to remainder 2. Everyone adds up the other people's hats and guesses their own hat so that that the total divided by 3 has their assigned remainder. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:57 AM Author: fragrant crystalline ape parlour As a 660 math SATmo this is way above my skill level (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845754) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:32 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen For example: Red = 0, Yellow = 1, Blue = 2
I am assigned remainder 0. - If I see a red hat and a yellow hat, the total is 1, so I need to guess Blue for a total of 3 in order to get a number in my assigned category. - If I see two red hats, the total is 0, so I need to guess Red for a total of 0 to get a number in my assigned category. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 10:57 AM Author: fragrant crystalline ape parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49848766) |
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Date: April 30th, 2026 11:55 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49854333) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:33 AM Author: internet-worthy odious mental disorder chapel ok, I see it now, but I don't like it. this is worse than the Monty Hall problem. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845719) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:43 AM Author: dull hissy fit office thread title promised teasers (plural) but there's only 1 followed by a subthread wasteland about another thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845737) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:44 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen The problem in the OP is difficult enough that I figured I'd let this one simmer for a while. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845740) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:50 AM Author: dull hissy fit office It's not that hard, you assign each color a number and each poaster a target of 0, 1, 2 and then they add up the color they see and guess their own color based on that target. Two will be wrong and one will be right. Next? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845749) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:02 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Yes but explain how exactly they guess their color based on the sum of the other ones? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845759) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:02 AM Author: dull hissy fit office you explained up thread already but the riddle was that only one of them needs to do that, not all 3 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845760) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:20 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen [removed second hat question to use later in thread] (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845779) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:25 AM Author: dull hissy fit office any riddles that don't involve modulo division? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845780) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:42 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen NEXT (not "inductive," just a logic puzzle): This one involves some real-world assumptions you can ask about if you have questions. It's not quite as abstract as the hat ones.
I capture you and lock you in my dungeon as my slave. I treat you well and feed you and stuff and you enjoy spending time with me BUT you'd much rather be free to go back to your life. After a couple weeks I tell you that I'm going to give you a chance to escape. There are three switches in your cell that have always been a mystery to you. They're each marked "on" and "off" and you've kept them off after some initial experimentation.
I tell you that each switch connects to a lightbulb in my room directly above the dungeon. Each lightbulb is controlled by one switch. I tell you to do whatever you want with the switches until tomorrow morning, at which point I will take you upstairs to where the lightbulbs are. If you can figure out which switch corresponds to each lightbulb, I'll set you free.
What is your strategy to escape? |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:50 AM Author: Ruddy puppy organic girlfriend i'd turn one on, one off, and flick one off and on rapidly all night until the bulb burns out.
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:55 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen The solution is actually really close to that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845823) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:57 AM Author: internet-worthy odious mental disorder chapel can you touch the bulbs when examining them? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845827) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:57 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Yes you can examine them however you want (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845828) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:58 AM Author: internet-worthy odious mental disorder chapel so leave the switch on all night then flip it off at the last minute then examine the bulb for heat, is what I would do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845829) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:16 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Crrrr! That's my favorite brainteaser. Next INDUCTION puzzle here: https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845889 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845842) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 4:55 AM Author: internet-worthy odious mental disorder chapel 1800000 look at me! i'm like Sherlock Holmes! |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 10:47 AM Author: wine vibrant depressive center HYPO DID NOT SPECIFY THAT THEY ARE INCANDESCENT BULBS >:(
sat here for 10 min trying to figure out if it could he solved in one night. this is BULLSHIT |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 4:40 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Lol that's why I said there are real-world things you can ask about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49847288) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 11:06 AM Author: wine vibrant depressive center i turn off switch 1 and turn on switch 2 and 3. then a run the common wire from switch 2 into switch 3. when in the bedroom i unscrew on of the lit bulbs. if the other lit bulbs remains lit it's on the third switch. if it turns off its on the second switch. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49848784) |
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Date: April 29th, 2026 5:06 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen I'll take your word for it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49850556) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:47 AM Author: Swashbuckling nudist pit karate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845809) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:33 AM Author: Ruddy puppy organic girlfriend again, i'm just going to tell the guys next to me what hats they have on
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:34 AM Author: dull hissy fit office turns out you hate em all. reminds me of this old joke:
"A bus full of ugly people unexpectedly crashes and kills everyone on board
Everyone shows up at the Gates of Heaven where God comes to meet them all Himself.
"Gee guys, I didn't intend for that to happen, I'm really sorry. I can't just resurrect you all, but to make up for it I'll grant you all one wish before I let you in."
The first person steps up and thinks for a moment. He says "You know God, I've been ugly all my life. For once I would like to know what it is like to be beautiful. Make me beautiful." So God snaps his fingers and it is so.
Everyone else starts chattering amongst themselves at such a brilliant idea. They all start wishing for the same thing.
God steps up to the last guy in line who is laying on his side laughing so hard he is crying. After several minutes of patiently waiting, God finally says "Now what in Heaven could be so funny boy?" The man stands up, wipes a tear from his eye and says "Make them all ugly again."" |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:37 AM Author: Ruddy puppy organic girlfriend that guy sounds like a real jerk! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845793) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:43 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845803) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 3:43 AM Author: irradiated claret address wrinkle Each poaster bets on a different total sum for the hats (0, 1, or 2). Since those are the only three mathematical possibilities, one of them is legally obligated to be right. First time in bort history (maybe human history) that discrete maths gets used as a viable flirting strategy. Its a lot of mental labor for 5 seconds of glory but for a poaster thats a high return on investment (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845878) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 3:47 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Correct except that technically the possibilities are 0-6 so you have to reduce that to 0, 1, 2 by doing modular division. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845880) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 3:53 AM Author: Carnelian pungent school cafeteria yarmulke best explanation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845884) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 4:55 PM Author: Flirting ruby indian lodge laser beams I don't get it at all. By giving the total sum of all hats, the poasters are not answering in the format required. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49847323) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:14 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Yeah, his answer works for slightly different formulations of the problem. In this case there are 7 possible sums, 0-6. You need to break down those possibilities into three categories, one of which must be true.
We can break it down into: - { 0, 3, 6 }: have a remainder of 0 when divided by 3 - { 1, 4 }: have a remainder of 1 when divided by 3 - { 2, 5 }: have a remainder of 2 when divided by 3
Since we have 3 guesses, we have each person construct his guess so that the total meets his assigned condition (remainder 0, 1, or 2). One of them will be right and the other two will be wrong.
For example: Red = 0, Yellow = 1, Blue = 2
I am assigned remainder 0. - If I see a red hat and a yellow hat, the total is 1, so I need to guess Blue for a total of 3 in order to get a number in my assigned category. - If I see two red hats, the total is 0, so I need to guess Red for a total of 0 to get a number in my assigned category. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 3:51 AM Author: Appetizing ultramarine immigrant Who's the FOB trying to draft OP? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49845883) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 4:27 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen NEXT QUESTION: We live in a strict matriarchy where every woman has to pass a logic exam before she is allowed to marry and therefore all married women are perfect reasoners. Every woman knows (from observation) whether each man in the kingdom is faithful to his wife, EXCEPT for her own husband. It is taboo to tell a woman whether her husband is faithful, and no one has done it or would ever. Also, all of the women have great hearing and would definitely hear a gunshot from anywhere in the kingdom.
One day, the Queen tells everyone that she is observing male infidelity in the kingdom and wants to eradicate it. She says that women with cheating husbands are now legally required to shoot and kill their husbands at midnight after discovering the infidelity, starting that night.
How does each married woman know when/if to kill her husband? |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 10:29 AM Author: wine vibrant depressive center every woman tallies up how many cheating men are in the kingdom and writes down the numner. only two sums are possible: women with faithful husbands will write down N, the true total, and women with unfaithful husbands will write down N-1. thus, if you wrote down N-1 you can deduce your husband is unfaithful and shoot him at midnight. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846346) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 11:48 AM Author: irradiated claret address wrinkle I don’t think that works. For instance if I see 5 cheating husbands, I don't know if N = 5 (my husband is faithful) or if N = 6 my husband is the 6th cheater). There has to be something that gives the first wife a reason to kill then the inductive chain starts but I’m having trouble intuiting it.
Wait it might be simpler than I was thinking. They might just count down the nights, and since they are all perfect reasoners they literally shoot at the same time on the last night. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 11:58 AM Author: wine vibrant depressive center if every woman shares what they believe is the total number lf cheating husbands, everyone with the lower number can deduce that their husband is unfaithful. they know there is at least one cheater because the queen announced it. and the two different sums confirm it.
let's use your numbers and say that there are 10 women total and 6 have unfaithful husbands. the 4 with faithful husbands will say there are 6 cheaters. the 6 with unfaithful husbands will say that there are 5 because they only can't see their own. this doesnt break the taboo because none of the wives are telling the other ones their husband is cheating. the numbers could all just be written anonymously too. the women with unfaithful husbands know the number the wrote down and can deduce their husband is the cheater. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:02 PM Author: pearl garrison (guy who thinks like a lawyer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846607) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:06 PM Author: irradiated claret address wrinkle I feel like thats fighting the hypo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846618) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:17 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center i think you're "right" and the answer rear naked choke came up with is the answer the question anticipates since it requires the perfect hearing component. but thats using meta-reasoning to figure out what the answer the drafter wanted is. i don't think my answer breaks the taboo, and chokes answer requires the women to track the number of nigjts passed, for no one to die for other reasons, and for shots to only occur for the specific purpose. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846651) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:22 PM Author: irradiated claret address wrinkle I think that's fair if we are treating the story as a realistic social process. But these logic puzzles are always idealizing the environment. "Perfect reasoners" "Great Hearing" etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846657) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:38 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center cr. however those premises are explictly established by the hypo. if you accept that this is a logic puzzle and make additional assumptions that weren't explicit (another is mine uses deductive reasoning and the thread says inductive), then that meta-reasoning gets you to the answer the question is searching for. but i still think mine works as drafted and better in a realistic scenario.
if this was on the LSAT and both mine and chokes answers were available, id select his because it's "best", i.e. what the drafter would think is best. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 11:11 AM Author: peach domesticated market by induction, hth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846473) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:25 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Mfcr this is the most pure INDUCTION problem so far. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49847390) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 11:58 AM Author: pearl garrison Assume 3 wives in the kingdom, exactly one of whom is cucked (but ofc doesn't know it). On day one, there are no murders because no wives know they are cucked. On day two, same. On day three, there has to be at least one murder bc queen said there is infidelity. Cuckwife observes that other two wives are not cucks. Cuckwife therefore deduces that she is the cuck and murders her husband on day three.
Solution is generalizable to greater populations and numbers of cucks.
Edit: nm I fucked up and am retarded. On day one, cuckwife would deduce that she is cuckwife and murder her husband on day one. Oomox explains below. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:11 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center this works too and is probably the answer the hypo is seeking. women are not compelled to root out the infidelity, so they wouldn't have to share the total number of cheaters like in my solution. but they would arive at the same conclusion after a certain number of nights (if we assume they're tracking them and have perfect memory).
in my solution with 10 women with 6 unfaithful husbands, the women who could see 5 cheaters would realize on the 6th night when the queen announces infidelity still remains that their husbands are cheaters and will shoot them after midnight. i was wondering where the perfect hearing component worked here. it's necessary for all the women to know whether murders occurred. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:12 PM Author: irradiated claret address wrinkle yeah I think thats it. they wait the number of nights and all shoot at the same time on night N given the number of cucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846638) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:51 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen That's really close. More precise SOLUTION: If there's only one cuckwife, she shoots her husband on the first night because the Queen announced that *someone* was cheating and she doesn't see anyone else's husband cheating. If there are two, both kill their husbands the second night because they only know of one cheater and there were no shots on the first night. If there are three, all three kill their husbands the third night because they know of two cheaters and there were no shots on the second night. And so on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846852) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:11 PM Author: Ruddy puppy organic girlfriend this seems to be built on a bigoted premise that all wives are women (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846634) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:55 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Oh no how heteronormative of me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846873) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:45 PM Author: idiotic fuchsia orchestra pit 'kill all husbands, its the only way to be sure' - the wives probly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849218) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:56 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen NEXT QUESTION: This one is a more common version of the hat problem, and the solution isn't as obscure/mathy.
There are 100 prisoners in a for-profit prison in a brand new SmartCity. Their sadistic AI warden decides to play a game. The prisoners will stand in a line on a ramp, each of them able to see all of the prisoners in front of them. A Red or Blue hat will be placed on each person's head. As in the last case, they can't see their own, just those of the people in front of them. Starting at the back of the line, each person will have to guess whether he has a Red or Blue hat. If he's wrong, he's executed; if he's right, he gets an upgrade from jail to the VR data harvesting labs where at least you get to play games. Everyone can hear the guesses of everyone before him.
They can strategize about it beforehand. How can they ensure the maximum survival possible of the group? |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:00 PM Author: Frozen field giraffe There is no restriction on the set of hats? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846893) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:01 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Any hat can be red or blue. No set distribution; could be all one color or split in any way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846897) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:25 PM Author: Frozen field giraffe I don't think there is a way they can all be guaranteed to survive, the last in the line (i.e. the first to guess) has no path to obtain information about his own hat, but he can see all the other hats in front of him and he is the first to guess so he ought in principle be able to find a way to signal the information he has to the other 99 players in a way that they can sequentially use and pass forward (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846973) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:28 PM Author: Frozen field giraffe are they restricted in what they can say e.g. only "red" or "blue" to guess their own hat, or can they also say other things? e.g. if each player is permitted to speak a number, they can allocate 1 and 0 to each other colors and each plater add up the hats they see in front of them and pass that information forward so that X(p)-X(p-1) = 0 or 1 so that each player can know the color of their own hat but the last in the line cannot do this and so may croak |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:29 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen 🎯🎯🎯
So what info should they agree on beforehand for the first guy encode in his guess?
Each guess = just "red" or "blue," no numbers or additional info. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:07 PM Author: irradiated claret address wrinkle Can they use encoding beyond the literal words red or blue? Like can they agree to say the words louder, with weird accents etc. to mean different things? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846926) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:08 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center also, are they aware of a prisoner guesses wrong and is executed? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846927) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:11 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen They hear the guesses before theirs for sure, and it doesn't matter if they hear the results of the guesses. For drama let's say they do.
edit: The result doesn't matter *if* we assume they're perfectly rational actors, which we are. If we stipulate that they may make mistakes, it does matter. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:18 PM Author: irradiated claret address wrinkle What if they agree beforehand that the first prisoner’s word is not a sincere guess but a code bit where “Red” means even parity and “Blue” means odd parity? That doesn't technically violate literally Red/Blue (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846950) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:26 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Crrrr! SOLUTION: The first prisoner's answer reflects whether he sees an even number of [designated color] hats or an odd number. He has a 50% chance of survival and then everyone else can get theirs right for sure based on that first answer and the answers of those that go before him.
(If there's the possibility that the prisoners make mistakes deducing from the answers before them, we do need the results to be audible to everyone.) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:25 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center if they can hear the results of the guess it works similarly to card counting. they could assign the hats a binary 1 or 0 and then communicate the count by assigning each color even or odd. e.g. red = 1, blue = 0, guessing red = even, guessing blue = odd.
if the last prisioner sees 40 red hats he would announce even. if the next prisoner sees 40 red hats he knows his is blue. then each prisoner follows suit.
i guess knowing the result of the guess isn't necessary if we assume the prisoners execute this perfectly. it would be necessary to confirm the accuracy of the count if someone makes a mistake. if they execute it perfectly, 99 prisoners are sure to live. the last guy is 50/50 regardless. i assume for the purposes of the hypo he will cooperate with the strategy even though he won't benefit personally? |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:27 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen All exactly correct! We do need to hear the results if they might make mistakes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846981) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:09 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Nope no extra info, just red/blue. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846928) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:13 PM Author: irradiated claret address wrinkle What about exploiting the ambiguity in the phrase "guess whether he has a Red or Blue hat"? This is probably fighting the hypo, because it seems the intended puzzle is saying the only valid outputs are "red" or blue" “whether he has a Red or Blue hat” can be read loosely as asking him to answer the question “Do you have a red-or-blue hat?” I guess that probably violates "no extra info, just red/blue", but I think its a funny way to do it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846941) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:20 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Oh yeah "guessing" just means each of them says "red" or "blue" and receives the consequence (death if it's not the color of his hat, transfer if it is) from the warden. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846958) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:21 PM Author: irradiated claret address wrinkle I can't stop Fighting the Hypo. I have Poor Abstraction Discipline (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846959) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:27 PM Author: iridescent floppy brunch idea he suggested first guy should say the color that has the most number of hats to help the other bros out. actually i guess he needs to come up with a way to convey more info than that but idk what it is (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49846980) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:34 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Not quite which one has more because imagine the front guy is red and everyone behind him is blue. Back guy says "blue," second-to-back still doesn't know what color he has. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49847001) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 2:43 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center this solution would ensure >50% of the people survive. if the majority of hats are red, last guy announces red, and everyone follows suit.
this might be the best answer in a real world scenario considering human fallibility and how unlikely it would be for the last prisoner to make an accurate count. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 4:30 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen NEXT QUESTION: Slumlord CSLG goes on an insecurity-fueled rampage and tracks down 50 POASTERS who said mean things about him on the bort. He imprisons them in some of his UNITS. He tells them all that there is a single room in the basement, which he menacingly calls "The Playroom," containing nothing but a switch and corresponding tacky chandelier. Every day after work and before infidelity, he heads over to his UNITS and uses a (pseudo)RNG website to choose a poaster to escort to The Playroom. The poaster can see if the light is on or off, and they can choose to toggle the switch or not.
At any point when summoned to go to The Playroom, a poaster can tell CSLG: "Every poaster has been to The Playroom." If they're correct, he'll set everyone free. If they're wrong, everyone is executed and CSLG sells the UNITS to SpacePorn to make into real playrooms. Sick stuff.
CSLG gives the poasters a chance to coordinate a plan before bringing them to their separate units, warning them that they'll never see each other again unless someone correctly tells him that they've all been to The Playroom. He tells them that the first poaster will be SUMMONED that night. What's their plan to get out alive? |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:03 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center what do you mean by psusdo rng? does it eliminate people that haven't gone before or is it completely random? because then the 50th night the poaster who goes 50th would be the last. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49847337) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:15 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Completely random. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49847368) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:22 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center with 50 poasters selected randomly the probability of all being selected is pretty high after a year. they should just agree to YOLO after a year.
im stumped. the only way i can think of to come to a certain answer is to brute force it, but that could take decades, and there's no way all 50 balding middle adged poasters all last that long. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:08 PM Author: iridescent floppy brunch idea he suggested can the guy in the playroom toggle the switch any number of times? if so, assign a number to each resident and when they are in the playroom, have them toggle the switch the number of times assigned to them.
if they can only do it once, tell the residents to toggle the switch only if this is their first time to the playroom. then you can keep track of how many first timers have gone until everyone has paid a visit |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:15 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center why would it matter how many times its toggled? the prisoners on see the playroom on their own and can't communicate with the others. the next prisoner to see it only could tell if its on or off, not how many times it was switched? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49847366) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:23 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Doesn't matter how many times they toggle it; the other prisoners don't see it real-time. They're just deciding if the light will be on or off when they leave.
Expand on your second idea. How would you keep track? |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:33 PM Author: iridescent floppy brunch idea he suggested i thought there was one poster (you) who could see if the light was on or off. is this not right? maybe i read this too fast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49847413) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:31 PM Author: erotic lascivious whorehouse preventive strike first guy turns it off
for every other guy, they will turn it on if they have never flipped the switch. if it's already on, they do nothing.
whenever first guy comes around again, he turns it off. at some point he will have done this N-1 times
will take a very long time but uh guarantees everyone should get to go home within 10000k days or so
it's something like this + minus the requirement of the "first guy" (since they dont know who goes first) and instead getting everyone to agree on the special man |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:39 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center i was thinking the same thing but you just assign one poaster as the counter. if he goes in first he would turn it off. but that would take longer that than than the remaining life expectancy of the 50 poasters. and they don't even know if all the poasters remain, including the counter (or first oick in your version). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49847429) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:48 PM Author: erotic lascivious whorehouse preventive strike there's only one piece of information (the switch) and technically nothing guarantees they will ever get out period since people are called at random
unless it's something goofy like "just put ur hand on the light bulb lol" |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:55 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center if the the rng is completely random you can easily calculate what confidence everyone is comfortable with and go with that date. after a year it's very high.
if you want to be certain by brute forcing with the light switch it'll take a long time. no chance everyone survives that long. and even if the did, i think everyone would choose to spent ~1 year in the unit and have a really good chance of surviving than potentially decades there and waiting for absolute certainty. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:43 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Crrrrr! The correction at the end is crucial.
SOLUTION: The group designates a Counter. Everyone except for the Counter interacts with The Playroom as follows: If it's your first time in there and the light is off, turn the light on. Otherwise, do nothing.
The Counter interacts with The Playroom as follows: If the light is on, turn it off and add a tally to the POASTERS count. When you've recorded 49 fellow poasters, the next time you're summoned, you can tell CSLG you're ready to bounce. And yeah it will probably take a while. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:47 PM Author: irradiated claret address wrinkle But how do they figure out that the switch is initially set to "off"? The rest of the group not just the person escorted into the playroom? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49847457) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:52 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center on = i turned it on for the first time.
if the counter goes first he turns it off. he's the only one that can switch the switch off. everyone else only switches it on if thats the first time they've been able to do so.
counter just has to count to 49 times he turned the switch off. |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:54 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Oh yeah I guess we need to special-case the first night (and this is diff from what ohnoes said). If you're the first person and you're the Counter, turn it off if it's on but don't count it as a fellow POASTER. But the normal rules apply to everyone else. The first person gets counted the same whether the light is on or off when they enter. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49847470) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 5:49 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center it would take a decade and potentially beyond the range humans can live and also requires all 50 poasters to remain alive, which is a near statistical certainty will not occur.
best bet is wait a year and yolo that everyone has gone, which is near certain by then. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:45 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen NEXT QUESTION: There are 20 kids locked in The New Playroom (all the units from the other Q combined into one) and they're all supergeniuses capable of perfect reasoning.
SpacePorn says, "Tomorrow I will give you a chance to leave. I'll put a Black or White collar on each of you so that you can see each other's but not your own. You will all guess your collar colors at the same time; anyone who gets it right will be set free. You may prepare a strategy."
As soon as SP leaves, the children whisper excitedly. They already have a plan for how to escape as a group as long as they have 10 or more kids on the outside. So this could be their chance!
But can they GUARANTEE that 10 or more kids get their colors right? What's the most children they can ensure answer correctly? How do they achieve that result? How would they do the same for other numbers of children? (He might capture 1 or 2 new ones tonight.) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 9:13 AM Author: wine vibrant depressive center does this playroom have the light switch? can they communicate nonverbally before giving their answer? e.g. since observing other people's collars is part of this could they signal what they think is the majority by closing one eyelid or something? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49848602) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:05 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen No nonverbal signaling (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49848996) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 9:18 AM Author: iridescent floppy brunch idea he suggested cant the kids just signal to each other what color their collar is? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49848607) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 10:12 AM Author: wine vibrant depressive center i found the solution using AI and won't spoil it it. but there is a possible solution without the prisoners communicating in some way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49848665) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 2:59 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Not allowed. They can come up with a way to construct their guesses at game-time to guarantee some correct answers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49848978) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 11:16 AM Author: Carnelian pungent school cafeteria yarmulke AI says
If you have a total space of exactly 20 bits, the breakdown will be: 5 Parity Bits (for error checking) 15 Information Bits (your actual 1/0 data) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:00 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Hmm so how would that translate to the kids' guesses? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49848983) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 2:12 PM Author: irradiated claret address wrinkle Okay here is the solution:
If Spaceporn gags them to prevent talking he still didn't restrict their movement. When Spaceporn steps back and says "guess" Kid 1 simply walks around the room and physically pushes everyone with a Black collar to the left wall, and everyone with a White collar to the right wall. Since Kid 1 can see everyone else's collars this is easy. Then Kid 2 grabs Kid 1 and guides them to their respective wall. Now everyone knows which group they belong to, and they all guess correctly at the exact same time |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:01 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Lol good plan but not allowed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49848986) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:04 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center all 20 children honk simultaneously, volitionally battering his eardrums via sound waves, and escape before he can file a federal lawsuit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49848993) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:04 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen 180 HOOOONK (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49848995) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:07 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center keep these coming, i love logic puzzles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849001) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:42 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Will do, logic puzzles are 180. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849091) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:18 PM Author: Pearly razzle-dazzle forum idiot this is the same problem as above (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849019) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:25 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen It's a variation on the "cooperate to guess your colors" theme, but so far I've only poasted Qs with solutions that are non-trivially different.
I am thinking of poasting a (reframed) repeat or two at some point to give people more chances to practice the concepts. But I'll mark those as review questions to indicate that you just have to understand past Qs and connect them to the new framing.
There will of course be similarities between answers before that, but no straight-up repeats. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:28 PM Author: Pearly razzle-dazzle forum idiot isn't it just do the n-hat solution kids/n times, since 1/n hits wins
how is that different |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:36 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Sorry which Q? I just woke up so I'm hazy. The first one is diff because 3 colors/3 guesses allows you to use parity to cover all the ground and ensure one correct answer. This one is 2 colors/20 guesses and the strategy to maximize correct answers is... definitely SIMILAR but I wouldn't say the same. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849062) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:38 PM Author: Pearly razzle-dazzle forum idiot i'm suggesting that your 20 kids in collars (sicko) question is 20/n instances of the n-hat problem you started the thread with (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849075) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:40 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Ya, same type of puzzle but nontrivially different approach for the kids to take. There's a novel part of the strategy that we haven't seen yet ITT. And lmao yeah I felt bad typing it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849084) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:48 PM Author: Pearly razzle-dazzle forum idiot can't they pair off and do a 2-hat game with each pair. simpler in binary though. one kid is assigned to guess what he sees and the other is assigned to guess what he doesn't see (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849102) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 3:59 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen 180 you got it!! Can you write it out more completely like what exactly "what he sees" and "what he doesn't see" mean and how many kids are guaranteed to be correct? And I also have follow-up Qs in the poast if you wanna give them a shot. But either way you win.
The novel part of the problem is the splitting into subgroups thing. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:16 PM Author: Pearly razzle-dazzle forum idiot first, the kids divide themselves into two equal group, a good phenotype group and a bad phenotype group. if we have an odd number of kids, the kid with the worst phenotype sits out.
each kid in the good phenotype group is paired with one kid in the bad phenotype group
when it comes time to guess: - each good phenotype kid guesses that his collar is the opposite of the collar he sees his bad phenotype partner wearing; this is easy to remember, because he will hope not to have similarities with his bad phenotype partner - each bad phenotype kid guesses that his collar is the same as the collar he sees his good phenotype partner wearing; this is also easy to remember, since we should all aspire to be like people with good phenotypes
this guarantees k/2 rounded down correct guesses, where k is the number of kids. so we get our 10 if we have at least 20 kids
collar -> guess matrix: b b -> w b b w -> b b w w -> b w w b -> w w
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:21 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Crrrrr!!! I like the flavor with the phenotype division. Nice job, this is the SOLUTION and covers all my Qs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849183) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:29 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen NEXT QUESTION: This is a REVIEW question rather than a new one. If you've been posting a lot ITT, give some time for people newer to the thread to answer. If you're new, you can try it from scratch or read the rest of the thread and try to reapply a concept you've seen above.
The Cummy Poasters Problem
A group of poasters gets together and one thing leads to another. A lot of bros help each other achieve climax and things get messy.
One of their wives joins the group later after her date. She looks around and starts laughing. "You know, at least one of you has dried cum on your face." Assume none of the poasters has looked in the mirror since their sexual exploits and no one knows whether he has cum on his face. The poasterwife says, "I'll buy anyone a drink who's able to tell me whether they have cum on their face. I'll keep asking the whole group throughout the night if anyone knows. Anyone who can correctly tell me gets a free drink."
What happens next? |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:46 PM Author: erotic lascivious whorehouse preventive strike does she always ask everyone one by one or is it an all at once raise your hands thing? can you see everyone else?
also I assume there's some sort of penalty for incorrectly saying yes? |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:49 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen She asks the group at random times throughout the night and everyone answers at the same time if they know their answer. You can see and hear everyone else yes.
If you fail to correctly volunteer your status of "cummy" or "not cummy" as soon as you know it, you don't get a free drink. Assume everyone wants their drink and is a perfect reasoner. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:56 PM Author: Pearly razzle-dazzle forum idiot can we get someone in here with expertise to advise on whether one might plausibly sit around with cum on one's face and not realize it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849248) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:57 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Well they knew when it was fresh, but once it's dried I feel like you'd forget about it right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849251) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:58 PM Author: Pearly razzle-dazzle forum idiot don't ask me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849254) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 4:59 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen I think that if it's a small glob it would become flaky enough when dry that you wouldn't really feel it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849258) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 5:02 PM Author: Pearly razzle-dazzle forum idiot can you pls not use "you" as a generic/impersonal pronoun when talking to me about cum face (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849265) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 5:13 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen Lmao I like it because it's making you uncomfortable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849302) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 5:05 PM Author: 180 Weed Whacker We agree that one of us will say red, the other will say blue, and the third will say yellow.
Is the girl a fempoaster? |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 5:28 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen How would that work?
Could be! But I'm sure women besides fempoasters enjoy discrete mathematics and making men exert themselves intellectually to get their romantic attention. |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 5:45 PM Author: 180 Weed Whacker No idea how it would work but at least we'd have a chance at kissing a girl which is better than what we have right now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849373) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 5:49 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849389) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 5:50 PM Author: Pearly razzle-dazzle forum idiot the order of the make out sessions strikes me as potentially contentious (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849400) |
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Date: April 29th, 2026 5:47 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49852277) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 6:40 PM Author: wine vibrant depressive center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849572) |
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Date: April 28th, 2026 5:10 PM Author: 180 Weed Whacker These are fun, ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49849294) |
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Date: April 30th, 2026 2:24 AM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen NEXT QUESTION: You're babysitting autistic twins, Alice and Bob, both perfect reasoners. You need a break to make a phone call. You tell them, "I'm going to write a number on each of your foreheads. They are consecutive positive numbers. Without telling each other the numbers you see, I want you to go back and forth asking and telling each other whether you know what number you have on your own head. Got it?"
They both nod. After you write the numbers, Bob asks Alice, "Do you know your number?" Alice replies, "No. Do you know your number?" Bob responds in the negative and asks if Alice knows; she has the same response as before.
After another round, you excuse yourself and make your phone call. You get back just in time to hear Bob say, "No. Do you know your number?" and Alice respond, "Yes, my number is 163."
What was Bob's number? How many times was the question asked before Alice figured out her number? |
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Date: April 30th, 2026 12:09 PM Author: erotic lascivious whorehouse preventive strike Let's say Bob is 1 and Alice is 2. In this case she would immediately know her number
If Bob is 2 Alice can be 1 or 3. So she would not know her number. If she's 1, bob knows he is 2 (question is asked twice). If she's 3, bob does not know yet, but asks Alice again. Alice now knows she is not 1, which means she must be 3. So the question gets asked 3 times by the time she knows, and the higher person always knows first.
If Alice is 163 Bob is 162 or 164, but since Alice knew first she is higher. This means Bob is 162 and it's the 163rd time the q has been asked
This one is easier than the others I think because you can derive the pattern with no real tricks, but I'm not sure how to RIGOROUSLY prove it.
That's assuming they don't communicate a strategy, but I think that part is implied with the "perfect reasoner" bit (not sure why else it would be mentioned) |
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Date: April 30th, 2026 3:40 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen You're right about Bob's number and the fact that Alice knew first because hers is higher. But the total number of Qs is wrong.
Re: proof, in general, proving something by induction requires you to: - Prove the base case - Prove that if it's true for n, it's true for n+1
But I don't need a formal proof :) |
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Date: April 30th, 2026 12:20 PM Author: irradiated claret address wrinkle Alice could have seen her own reflection while you were making the phone call (setup doesn't explicitly forbid this). So when she says "Yes, my number is 163", it didn't follow from induction she just saw it. Then Bob’s number could be either 162 or 164, since the only constraint is that their numbers are consecutive positive integers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49854402) |
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Date: April 30th, 2026 3:42 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen There are no mirrors or reflective surfaces in the house because their autism makes them smash glass when they see themselves in it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49854789) |
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Date: April 30th, 2026 5:49 PM Author: Pearly razzle-dazzle forum idiot i don't like this one, because "perfect reasoning" here doesn't mean a person applying human reasoning perfectly, which the format of the question gestures at, but rather a problem solving technique that doesn't map well to human reasoning at all.
midway through the exercise, bob will tell himself "now i know that alice knows that i know that alice knows that i know..." and so on, iterated n times. now this is not really a different cognitive state than n+1 or n-1 because human cognition doesn't work that way -- there is no experience of "knowing that knowing" at that level of depth the can be distinguished for one level up or down
so the question ends up being a fairly straightforward one about designing a recursive algorithm that is made more difficult by dressing it up as a story about people who must act not like people for it to work
contrast with the hat puzzles which are humans being clever humans |
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Date: April 30th, 2026 7:07 PM Author: Apoplectic Pea-brained Roast Beef Kitchen I agree that the hats are moar fun and this one is kinda just pure math. Just wanna shake it up. I guess the benefit of this one is that it lends itself more to a formal proof if anyone is interested in that. Plus it's pure induction, which I'd argue is only true of 3 problems ITT, so it's very on-theme. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860893&forum_id=2#49855301) |