Timeline for 10 prisoners and 10 lists of numbers
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| Mar 1, 2018 at 9:47 | comment | added | Tom | Ah yes, thanks all! I forgot about that part. | |
| Mar 1, 2018 at 9:42 | comment | added | yotabyte | Imagine for example the numbering of the prisoners is cyclic: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. not even one prisoner will guess correctly according to your solution! so it is not guaranteed to free them. | |
| Mar 1, 2018 at 9:42 | comment | added | Bass | The list does not contain the prisoner's own number. | |
| Mar 1, 2018 at 9:41 | comment | added | Lolgast | This won't work if they all have a different number - They'll never get their own number (note the question mentions that they get a list which will contain all of the other prisoners numbers) | |
| Mar 1, 2018 at 9:39 | history | answered | Tom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |