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Hi Dave, thanks, will check out the 100 prisoners problem. I did actually state that they are not allowed to communicate though, and if you think that suicide can be considered a type of communication, so is flipping the medals in a certain pattern.

Brilliant solution! Just trying to figure out if there is any way they might make it more efficient?

Hi DaveE, I thought of the average solution as well, but unfortunately it's not the right answer. The soldiers are not chosen randomly, and their downside is quite large so they will want to know FOR SURE before they are guessing. If the general is close to rational he will only use 49 of the...

Hi there, A general summons 50 soldiers to his tent. He points out two medals on the wall, both of them with one silver side and one gold side. He tells them that he will summon one soldier every day to come and switch one of the medals around, so that the other side faces into the tent. The...