(February 22, 2016 at 12:15 am)Cecelia Wrote:(February 21, 2016 at 2:38 pm)Tiberius Wrote: In fact if the director put the numbers in the boxes following this pattern (the number in the box is the number of the box plus 1, and the number in box 100 is 1) then he would guarantee that the first prisoner would not find their number, even if the first prisoner was chosen at random.
By the 20th time though, most prisoners would recognize the pattern. It'd be a good test though.
Exactly, prisoners aren't computer programs. (Hopefully) all of them would abandon the plan once they figured out the pattern. I cannot imagine anyone stupid enough that they wouldn't at least do a test pull of their number + 1 after 20 consecutive pulls of the drawer incrementing by one.
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