A better explanation for the prisoner's dilemma riddle?
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He wasn't expecting to be killed on any weekday.So he can be killed anyday.
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I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION. TRY AGAIN.
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Players - There are 22 players, each with a box numbered between 1 and 22.  Each day a player is chosen at random to play the game.  That person's space is filled the following day, and each person remains in the game as a box holder until they are selected to play the game themselves.\n\nThe Game - The player for that day does not know how much is in their box.  The board shows the amounts of money in play.  They are 1p, 10p, 50p, £1, £5, £10, £50, £100, £250, £500, £750, £1000, £3000, £5000, £10000, £15000, £20000, £35000, £50000, £75000, £100000, and £250000.\nThe player chooses boxes one at a time, and their values are eliminated from the game board to show the possible amounts available still to win.\nAfter 5 boxes, the phone will ring and the banker will offer an amount of money based on the possibilities still remaining.  Following this, the banker will make an offer after every 3 boxes have been chosen.\nAfter each offer, the player must decide whether to accept this offer, or eliminate more boxes in the hope that he will knock out the low amounts, and therefore generate a higher offer from the banker.  Ideally, he will have the £250000 in from of him, meaning it cannot be eliminated, and will generate a high offer to the end of the game.\nThe question "Deal Or No Deal" is asked each time, hence the title of the show.\nIf the player accepts the offer at any time, that is the amount they go home with.  The game is then played to it's conclusion to see how much they would have won if they had carried on to the end.  The offers continue to be made by the banker as if the player had not made a deal at an earlier time.
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what is the question?  I don't get it.
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Whats the probability that the problem is *not* solved? Tom doesn't solve it (0.75) and Alice doesn't (0.5) so its 0.75*0.5 = 0.375. So the probability it is solved is 1-0.375 = 0.625.\n\nNow, we are given that it is solved. What is the probability that Tom solves it? 0.25. \nSo:\nP(Tom | solved) = P(Tom and solved) / P(solved) = P(Tom) / P(solved) = 0.25/0.625 = 0.4.\n\n(edit - note that the reason the below answer is not quite correct is because it is possible for *both* of them to solve it - so the probability Tom solves it when solved + probability Alice solves it when solved should *not* equal 100% - it should be more.)
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This would have driven me crazy EXCEPT that you wrote it wrong, whoever posted this! this is how it REALLY GOES!!!!! \n\nThink of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is. \n\nAn the answer well thats an easy one......the first 2 sentences are obsolete, the 3rd word in THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is LANGUAGE! thats the correct VERSION of this riddle! GET IT RIGHT. I copy this from another page!
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Here is some good riddles for you...\n\nQ: What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?\nA: The year's date reads the same when turned upside down. That will not happen again until 6009. \n\nQ:  A  man wanted to enter an exclusive club but did not know the password that was required. He waited by the door and listened. A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, "twelve." The member replied, "six " and was let in. A second member came to the door and the doorman said, "six." The member replied, "three" and was let in. The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said ,"ten" and the man replied, "five." But he was not let in. \n\nWhat should have he said?\n\nA:Three. The doorman lets in those who answer with the number of letters in the word the doorman says.
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I don't quite understand the question. \n\nSorry
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Each player has 3 lives. They each select a double by throwing at the board with their 'wrong' hand. Every time an opponent hits somebody elses double that person loses a life. Play continues until only one player is left alive. A variant is to play "blind killer" whereby nobody knows which double the other players have and they throw at any double. When 1 is hit which belongs to a player that player is eliminated. 1 life each makes for a quick and fair game where nobody can be accused of "ganging up" on 1 player
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New puzzle: Three words.\n\nY_u ~  nee_ ~  Je_e_!
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In the film "The Labyrinth," the heroine comes across two talking doors.  She must choose which door to enter.  The real brain-tickler is the preface that one of the talking doors always tells the truth and the other always lies.\n\nThe heroine poses the question to door A, "If I asked door B, 'Which door leads to my destination?' what would he say?"\n\nIf door A responds, "He would say your destination lies behind me," then she knows the real path is behind door B because no matter who is lying and who is truthful, the lier's response will negate the truthful one's.\n\nIf door A responds, "He would say your destination lies behind himself," then it can be deduced that the path is behind door A, again following this logic of reversal.\n\nSo, whatever response either door gives will always be incorrect and the heroine should choose the other door.
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In this case, the answer is the third word in the phrase "the English language", i.e. "language"! The part about "angry and hungry" turns out to be a red herring. (from COPYEDITING-L list and the rec.puzzles Usenet newsgroup's FAQ) People who don't know the trick to this puzzle, by changing the wording when they pass the question along, have mangled the question until there is no real answer! \n\nThere is no answer. \nThe puzzle is WRONG. "It's a fraud, it's a fake," says Will Shortz, who is the puzzle editor of the New York Times and the host of a puzzle segment on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition (NPR, 11/10/96). The actual truth is that \nNO other common English word ends in -gry! It's a trick question -- and the trick, at least in some versions, has been lost. Word-puzzle fans and reference librarians have been trying for years to track the question's history to find the original answer. But to do that we need to know what the original question was. And there are several different versions in circulation purporting to be the original.
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Try this link--it's a pretty funny explanation.\n\nhttp://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20010613
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Yeah, Mary. I heard this one in 5th grade!\n\nNunu is a good answer too, but I think this is the simple version of the riddle.
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i don't understand the question
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Go to Gamewinners (link below), or a similar "game cheat" web site for hints on winning your cases. \nEach case will probably be just as, if not more hard for you to solve. They tried to make the game as realistic as possible, that's why it seems so hard.
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It's not just a question of puzzle logic, but also a question of people logic. It works like this.\n\nSince all 3 of the men raised their hand, they could all see at least one green dot. By this, they could all determine that there were at least 2 green dots. That's the puzzle logic part.\n\nFor the people logic, you have to remember that all three of the men were wise and probably came to the first conclusion immediately. However, they hesitated for a couple of seconds after their blindfolds were removed. This hesitation is important.\n\nThey all knew there were at least 2 green dots. So, if any of them could see a red dot, then he would have said immediately "I have a green dot". After all, if there must be two green dots and he (any of the wise men) could see only one, then he could easily conclude that the second green dot is on his own forehead.\n\nNone of them did that. They each saw 2 green dots which was the minimum amount that could be there according to the puzzle logic. So, they didn't know if the dot on their own forehead was green or red. Since they all hesitated, the one man who stood up concluded that the other two were having the same issue of seeing two green dots that he was. The only way that could happen was if all three dots were green.