Timeline for Reading minds can be easy
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| Mar 4, 2015 at 22:52 | history | edited | kaine | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 4, 2015 at 22:22 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | Agreed: with the information we've been given, your answer is equally valid. In fact, something similar would work for all such mind-reading puzzles. The trouble with guess-the-pattern puzzles is that they often have more than one valid answer (spaghetti, anyone?) | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 22:13 | comment | added | kaine | @randal'thor I don't dislike you answer or even like mine better. I think, however, it is equally valid and, therefore, included it. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 22:03 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | Fair point. I'm still not sure I like it as a solution though. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 22:02 | comment | added | kaine | @rand al'thor. The game could easily continue with the correct preset rotation. Instead of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7... they could pick 3,4,5,3,4,5,3,4,5... or 3,4,5,3,1,4,1,5,9,2,6,5,3... or any pattern they like. It currently could just be every other value of pi. This would ( long term) be less obvious as first question correct answers are possible. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 21:58 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | I hope this is a coincidence! Otherwise the puzzle isn't as interesting as it looks - the game couldn't reasonably be continued forever. Also the OP's comment on my answer, giving a new example, suggests your answer isn't what was intended. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 18:19 | comment | added | kaine | Jasper is the one only who is not in on it. Boris asks Alex the questions and choses what to ask. Alex answers yes or no. Jasper only influences what is the correct question to ask when Alex is going to answer "Yes" either way. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 17:42 | comment | added | kaine | @mdc32 on round x, alex should just say yes after question (x+2). Boris knows this and intentionally asks the question which should be answered yes then and only then. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 17:38 | comment | added | mdc32 | How does this work? Boris would have to guess the correct object on a certain guess, because Jasper gives Alex the actual object. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 14:14 | history | answered | kaine | CC BY-SA 3.0 |