Riddles

Dec. 6th, 2010 12:26 pm
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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?

Date: 2010-12-06 07:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enviousmath.livejournal.com
Then what would you do, Pokey?

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Date: 2010-12-06 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
I'd fire to miss. Now that I've shown them I'm no threat, any reason to draw on me is negated and they'd fire on each other.

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Date: 2010-12-06 08:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enviousmath.livejournal.com
Unless they realize that you fired to miss on purpose.

Or, it could be possible that the other two had always intending on killing you and made a truce with one another.

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Date: 2010-12-06 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Well....that's true, but it wasn't really the point of the riddle.

[And he's kind of mumbling to himself now, Kyrie. He kind of prides himself on being clever, but he never really thought of trying to solve the riddle another way then the way it was told to him. So now he's kinda embarrassed.]

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Date: 2010-12-06 08:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enviousmath.livejournal.com
True, true. I suppose I'm thinking about it too realistically. My husband is a fan of Western movies about cowboys, so I guess I got into that kind of mindset. [A light laugh.]

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Date: 2010-12-06 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
I guess. Though it was a pretty cool answer.

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Date: 2010-12-06 09:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enviousmath.livejournal.com
Your answer is also a reasonable one. [Kyrie's too old to say 'cool' and not feel silly.]

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Date: 2010-12-06 09:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Well yeah, of course it is!

[Aaaand there's his ego, doing an amazing recovery to smash the little bit of scrutiny he was feeling towards his own answer there. Amazing how it can take just one sentence to make his floundering pride get back up and Hulk righ the fuck out.]

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Date: 2010-12-06 10:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enviousmath.livejournal.com
[She laughs a little. Oh Pokey, you are so adorable.]

That's the spirit!

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