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Although the author says he solved it, he didn't; he made a guess and got lucky. Perhaps there's a subtle joke going on? (Or maybe it's not so subtle and I'm ju
by gjm11 17y ago
Although the author says he solved it, he didn't; he made a guess and got lucky. Perhaps there's a subtle joke going on? (Or maybe it's not so subtle and I'm just being dim. Then again, I solved the puzzle in a couple of minutes and he apparently didn't.)
I don't think it's a terribly interesting puzzle.
- scott_s 17y agoI upvoted the submission not for the puzzle, but the author's discussion after it.
- lhorie 17y agoHis point is that he got the value of "?", but not the "correct" method to arrive at that solution. Neither of blog posts seem to ask explicitly for the method. I think choosing to take a statistical gamble on a silly meaningless puzzle (rather than attempt to solve it conventionally like everyone else) is actually not necessarily a bad idea. I talked about that a while back here : http://lhorie.blogspot.com/2009/03/games-bias-and-statistics.html http://lhorie.blogspot.com/2009/03/games-bias-and-statistics... (albeit I was reacting to a more statistical-natured puzzle at that time) I do agree this puzzle isn't very interesting in that it doesn't evoke as much gut feeling as, say, the Monty Hall paradox.