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Re:The Logic Puzzle You Can Only Solve with Your Brightest F... by skrebbel on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @07:16AM (#17548825)
Not true. You're always asked first. If you had not passed, then your friend would be either freed or locked up forever (thus not asked at all).
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Re:The Logic Puzzle You Can Only Solve with Your Brightest F... by ggambetta on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @07:25AM (#17548857)
This assumes the caretaker uses short-circuit evaluation :) It's a reasonable assumption to make, but I'd still argue the problem is under-specified.
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Re:The Logic Puzzle You Can Only Solve with Your Brightest F... by neogodless on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @09:33AM (#17549593)
I thought what you thought at first, but I re-read it, and it's quite clear. Especially this second sentence.

> The only way for you both to escape is for one of you to give the total number of visible statues. Get it wrong, and neither of you ever leave.

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