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

[artwithknives.livejournal.com]

...shoot yourself in the foot. You survive and you're out of the duel.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[You know what Shiki? He just laughs at that. But it isn't the sardonic laughter the little bastard usually pulls out. He sounds genuinely and childishly amused at that answer.]

[artwithknives.livejournal.com]

What's so funny?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

It's....it's just...

[Sorry, he's trying to calm himself down. RIDDLES ARE SERIOUS BUSINESS GODDAMMIT!]

You know...the way to get out of it is to prove yourself an incapable opponent, but most people don't usually think of "shoot myself in the foot".

[artwithknives.livejournal.com]

Yeah but people might still shoot at you for being stupid. The rules in a duel say if you get hit, you lose so you hit yourself. If you're out of the duel, you survive. It's better than someone laughing at you for being bad and then shooting you anyway.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

True. But the thing is that even though there's supposed to be honor in a duel, the people you're squaring off against might still cheat you. They might not accept it as an actual loss unless it's death.

[artwithknives.livejournal.com]

But if you break the rules, a Texas Ranger will hunt you down. That's how American Western movies work.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Well that's....

NOT EVERY DUEL IS LIKE A WESTERN MOVIE!

[Not to mention the fact he's never seen a Western. Or knows what Texas is.]

[artwithknives.livejournal.com]

Have you ever seen a real duel?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

.......

I've been in fights.

[And lots of them. And ones that could've been lethal. And has had guns and weapons pointed at him. But no real duels.]

[artwithknives.livejournal.com]

That's not really answering the question.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Well.

Maybe you shouldn't ask dumb questions.

Dummy.

[artwithknives.livejournal.com]

If you're going to insult someone, at least make it original.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

I'm plenty original. I just don't need to waste it on big fat jerks like you.