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Pretty much you've failed this on an intelligence level.

Give current society and the normal constraints on these popular games the answer to all the above are incredibly obvious, the answers you ask can be deducted. (No prisoner can die, if they could it would have been hinted at)

It's like claiming you can't do cryptic crosswords because the questions are not clear or don't follow proper English.

Although I imagine you are just trying to be difficult :)



Or maybe, since this is used as a "hire a programmer" question often, and has been for years, perhaps I just like discussing the very real difference between toy algorithm problems and the fact that algorithms don't exist in toy environments ever. In fact, I literally acknowledged the constraints and toy environment you're talking about in my post. Perhaps you should take a try at actually reading it, rather than insulting me because you think you're a clever person.

Oh almost forgot the smiley to indicate something or another sarcastic... :)




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