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The “remaining pebble” refers to the one in the bag that she didn’t choose. The path is covered in pebbles of both colours so by dropping the chosen pebble, it
by fargus_dorsalby 5y ago
The “remaining pebble” refers to the one in the bag that she didn’t choose. The path is covered in pebbles of both colours so by dropping the chosen pebble, it means they can’t identify it. So they must look inside the not-chosen (remaining) bag, which will contain a black pebble.
Therefore, as the merchant cannot expose his dishonesty, he must concede that the chosen one was white.
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