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ceasetoexist) wrote2010-12-06 12:26 pm
ceasetoexist) wrote2010-12-06 12:26 pm
Riddles
Hey, you know what I love? Being droned for a week and a half for absolutely no friggin' reason. No. That's just great.
Anyway, I'm bored, so lets play a game. Got a riddle for you. Well, I guess it's more like a logic puzzle then a riddle, but they're close enough to be the same thing. Whatever. So here it is:
Three duelists are standing off against one another. Technically, everything about each duelist seems similar: each has a gun and is the same distance apart from the others. Despite this, each duelist has a different possibility of hitting his opponents. Duelist A has a 90% chance of firing and hitting either oppoennt. Duelist B, however, only has a 60% chance of firing and hitting an opponent.
You are Duelist C. You have a 30% chance of firing and hitting either opponent. You can't run; running will have both of them automatically draw their guns on you. So you have to stay and do something. So, the question is who do you fire at in order to survive?
Anyway, I'm bored, so lets play a game. Got a riddle for you. Well, I guess it's more like a logic puzzle then a riddle, but they're close enough to be the same thing. Whatever. So here it is:
Three duelists are standing off against one another. Technically, everything about each duelist seems similar: each has a gun and is the same distance apart from the others. Despite this, each duelist has a different possibility of hitting his opponents. Duelist A has a 90% chance of firing and hitting either oppoennt. Duelist B, however, only has a 60% chance of firing and hitting an opponent.
You are Duelist C. You have a 30% chance of firing and hitting either opponent. You can't run; running will have both of them automatically draw their guns on you. So you have to stay and do something. So, the question is who do you fire at in order to survive?
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Yep. Each gun only gets one shot.
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How about you shoot at neither? Miss in a big way. Make it obvious you're terrible and they don't have a reason to gun for you?"
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I'd have probably run though long before we got the guns out to tell you the truth. There's no point to duels, they looked cool but they were kind of dumb."
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Duels are awesome, I don't know what you're going on about.
[Not that the kid has ever been IN one.]
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Scary and kind of thrilling? Yes.
[And you get used to having people threaten you and point weapons at you after awhile.]
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[Kneel before the crushing might of a twelve-year olds logic.]
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[And he just says that with pride like you WOULD NOT believe.]
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Why not? They're fun."
[[Guess who still does/did?]]
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[Is what a guy is teaching him. And he can do some of it. But like fuck he can actually do much entirely by himself yet.]
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... how old are you?"
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[Well, that's how long he's lived dicking around time-space. In all other regards? He's just a borderline sociopathic twelve year old prodigy.]
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You believe me?!
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