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Do the prisoners remove their number from the drawer if they find it? It's not clear from the problem statement.
by keketi 8y ago
Do the prisoners remove their number from the drawer if they find it? It's not clear from the problem statement.
- ajanuary 8y agoThey do not.
- moate 8y agoIf they did, you essentially go back to random choice because of all the broken chains created. "Find" is meant to imply literally "discovering the location of data that correlates to their prisoner number". Real world context implied that prisoners would also take the tickets, but that is not specifically stated.