Riddles

[ceasetoexist]

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?

Comments

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Well, okay. See, it's a hypothetical question. It's not you personally firing, but the character you're playing as. Your own skill isn't part of the question.

[armywithcountry.livejournal.com]

Then why even shoot at all? If I'm going to be that weak, I don't have any business being in a duel in the first place! If someone aims at me, I'll kill them first, but otherwise let them fight it out themselves.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

How are you going to kill them if they aim at you? You only have a thirty percent chance of hitting?

[armywithcountry.livejournal.com]

Please. I don't need a gun to beat the shit out of people. They won't even have time to fire. Besides, it's not like I haven't been shot before.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Okay. Look. You're not getting that this guy isn't you. Imagine you were a normal human being in this situation.

What would you do?