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There are two doors, each with one guard. One guard always lies and the other always answers truthfully. One door leads to the castle and the other leads to 'certain death'. The puzzle is to find out which door leads to the castle by asking one of the guards one question.
One of Smullyan's examples of this type of puzzle involves three inhabitants referred to as A, B and C. The visitor asks A what type they are, but does not hear A's answer. B then says "A said that they are a knave" and C says "Don't believe B; they are lying!" [2] To solve the puzzle, note that no inhabitant can say that they are a knave ...
As the warden says B will be executed, it is either because C will be pardoned ( 1 / 3 chance), or A will be pardoned ( 1 / 3 chance) and the coin to decide whether to name B or C the warden flipped came up B ( 1 / 2 chance; for an overall 1 / 2 × 1 / 3 = 1 / 6 chance B was named because A will be ...
His job was to remotely open the cell doors from “the bubble,” the glass room overlooking the floor. The elevated booth is equipped with a 12-gauge shotgun loaded with 7 1/2-birdshot—the same tiny pellets that sport shooters use to blow apart clay pigeons and that hunters use to kill birds and rabbits.
If the car is behind door 1, the host can open either door 2 or door 3, so the probability that the car is behind door 1 and the host opens door 3 is 1 / 3 × 1 / 2 = 1 / 6 . If the car is behind door 2 – with the player having picked door 1 – the host must open door 3, such the probability that the car is behind door ...
Offensive rebounding, 3-point shooting and guard play could all be key factors as Ohio State hosts No. 15 Texas A&M on Friday night. Offensive rebounding, 3-point shooting and guard play could all ...
Here, the winning probability is 2 / 3 , which is optimal since the first player cannot have a higher winning probability than that. [13] In a further variant, three prizes are hidden behind the three doors and three players have to independently find their assigned prizes with two tries.
The annoyed spirit of the Dragon King then haunted the Great Ancestor each night until his generals Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gong volunteered to stand guard at his door. The emperor enjoyed his peaceful sleep but did not want to continue bothering his two generals. In their place, he had artists paint their portraits and paste them to the doors.