Timeline for The Second Hardest Logic Puzzle in the World
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| Nov 8, 2022 at 11:38 | comment | added | ROX | Thanks, yes I think the answer is correct, but that there was a small error in my comment from yesterday, which is why the answer says 1/3 but comment said 2/3 (sorry the answer was long time ago now). Anyway I've deleted that comment now so as to remove any spoilers in it. | |
| Nov 8, 2022 at 8:54 | comment | added | Zizy Archer | @ROX I have rechecked your argument and yup, you are right. | |
| Jul 1, 2021 at 8:55 | comment | added | ROX | Best case I can see for the approach above, - if I can choose the order I receive the responses and choose not to read/hear the responses I decide I don't actually need - is 6 responses read. | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 18:22 | comment | added | ROX | I can see how to adapt my above solution to require only 10 responses in worst case. or 9 depending on whether I have to decide before asking who I will want replies from. Fewer responses required in more lucky cases. That's based on the same questions though, and I aiming for fewest questions rather than fewest responses, so I'm going to consider if there's a different set of questions that require fewer responses. | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 17:53 | comment | added | ROX | @Andrew OK understood now, Do I have to declare before asking who I will want answers from, or can I decide not to get an answer from a certain person once I've got answers from some of the others? | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 17:43 | comment | added | Andrew | I was referring to an alternate metric (and it wasn't 6 responses, it was 11). In the solution that has the green checkmark, although you only ask 3 questions you get 11 responses from every participant: 5 for the first question (one to which the answer is yes), 5 for the second and 1 for the third. I was asking if you could do better. | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 17:41 | comment | added | ROX | @Andrew sorry I don't understand what you mean about the 6 responses in the worst case. The worst case here needs only 3 questions, but if you mean you'd only need to consider 6 of the responses to those questions then I haven't spotted that myself. | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 17:31 | comment | added | Andrew | Although you are ineligible to win (it's too long to change the winning criterion) I still like this answer because of the chance to only need 2 questions. Now, I wonder if you can do better than 11 responses for the worst case... | |
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| Jun 28, 2021 at 21:16 | history | answered | ROX | CC BY-SA 4.0 |