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In this version of the problem, any individual guess has a 50% chance of being right. However, the Hamming code approach works by concentrating wrong guesses together onto certain distributions of hats. For some cases, all the players will guess incorrectly; whereas for the other cases, only one player will guess, but correctly.
Steve Selvin wrote a letter to the American Statistician in 1975, describing a problem based on the game show Let's Make a Deal, [1] dubbing it the "Monty Hall problem" in a subsequent letter. [2]
The only logical response is that no, you cannot guess a cohesive riddle based on those clues. Once you realize the question is the focal point, instead of the confusing statements, the answer ...
Can you guess the riddle? Related: Can You Solve the ‘A Man Steals $100 From a Shop’ Riddle? What Happened When I Tried the Harvard Riddle Out on My Friends.
In game theory, "guess 2 / 3 of the average" is a game where players simultaneously select a real number between 0 and 100, inclusive. The winner of the game is the player(s) who select a number closest to 2 / 3 of the average of numbers chosen by all players.
The riddle does a great job because the name is a play on words. When you first read the riddle and the opening line says, “There is a woman in a boat, on a lake, wearing a coat,” you don’t ...
The Ages of Three Children puzzle (sometimes referred to as the Census-Taker Problem [1]) is a logical puzzle in number theory which on first inspection seems to have insufficient information to solve.
"Cheryl's Birthday" is a logic puzzle, specifically a knowledge puzzle. [1] [2] The objective is to determine the birthday of a girl named Cheryl using a handful of clues given to her friends Albert and Bernard.