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Re:The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman ... by inopinatus on Saturday May 08, 2021 @10:24PM (#27092629)
I'll suggest we encountered the same class of inadvertent information sharing via a recent post to this forum, The Case of the 50ms request:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27053941

Having recognised (from crystallized experience) the nature of the problem from the very first hint, I went straight for the jugular at the first opportunity; any residual uncertainty about the diagnosis was extinguished by the wording of the answer prompt, which to my mild disappointment took all the drama out of the reveal.

Sadly, there was no automobile prize on offer. No, not even a goat.

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