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: 2010-12-07 02:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com
Simple. You fire at nothing.

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Date: 2010-12-07 05:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com
An excellent riddle, if I do say so myself.

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Date: 2010-12-07 05:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
I always liked it. Think it kinda teaches a valuable lesson.

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Date: 2010-12-07 06:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Well, good ones do. There are still some stupid ones out there occasionally.

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Date: 2010-12-07 06:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com
Fair. Even in my glory days, I was guilty of churning out the occasional dud.

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Date: 2010-12-07 06:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Yeah? You make your own riddles a lot then, Nigma?

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Date: 2010-12-07 06:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com
You could say I made something of a career in it.

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Date: 2010-12-07 06:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Really? Know you can make a career out of anything you try hard enough, but how'd you pull it off with riddles?

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Date: 2010-12-07 06:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com
Look at it this way, Pokey. First, imagine you're in a town full of dullards. People you know you're eons smarter than.

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Date: 2010-12-07 06:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
....

Yeeeeeaaah I think I can imagine that.

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Date: 2010-12-07 06:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com
Of course you can.

Now, then, question: What do you do with all these sheep? How would you, the theoretical shepherd, make them smarter?

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Date: 2010-12-07 06:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Well logically you'd challenge them. You wouldn't really just go and outright tell them something, because that wouldn't really be doing anything and they could just ignore the information. But if you put it in-

Oh! Okay, I gotcha.

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Date: 2010-12-07 06:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com
Very good. See, you and I? This dynamic we have going right now?

That was exactly what I wanted to try and get out of that town. I wanted people that could keep up with me. People that could recognize true intellect and, hopefully one day, learn an important lesson or two.

They weren't necessarily... that appreciative of my riddles, however.

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Date: 2010-12-07 06:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Pfft, people are stupid jerk weasels most of the time. They don't know what'd be good for 'em if it hit them in the face with a 2x4.

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Date: 2010-12-07 06:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com
I believe I'm in full agreement on this.

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