From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.224.172.200 with SMTP id m8mr9395452qaz.0.1364353832294; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:10:32 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!t2no20432716qal.0!news-out.google.com!k8ni27401qas.0!nntp.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:10:31 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Three of a crime Card game Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:10:31 -0400 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < Message-ID: References: <5c51e9ce-b8d1-42f1-999c-a37c3c600bc8@googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.73.117.210 X-Trace: sv3-9yjL0w3/Dn2e93etWAxjsxr4R1YZuQGY01Evbiq4QXoLPrJuMoYSR2tqMS2nHbkY+P5MjkYqdfki5B+!G9/xJeOEDMt8JIe0J+p0OtG2aYtzWYizyacLUUjorkiYTSdamIHGppT6Dv3T4W2tg8bu9n9MhjiW!oyer2Zz6tgDOad80UT7iTEM/KCcDMWNOWR9//TFWVcw= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3614 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:14737 Date: 2013-03-26T23:10:31-04:00 List-Id: On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:18:10 -0700 (PDT), gattamaneni abhiram declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada: > Three-of-a-crime is a simple logic game for up to 3 players. There are 7 different > criminals. The computer randomly chooses three of these (the "perpetrators"), but > doesn't tell the players which are chosen. The computer then puts down three random > criminals. 0, 1, or 2 of these may be the actual perpetrators. The computer also tells > the player how many (but not which) of the three criminals are perpetrators. The > players may either guess which three criminals are the actual perpetrators or they may > pass. If a player guesses wrong, she is out of the game and the other players continue. > If no player chooses to guess, the computer puts down another three randomly chosen > criminals (0, 1, or 2 of which may be actual perpetrators) and tells the players how > many (but not which) of these are actual perpetrators. Players can again use logic to > deduce the three actual criminals and may guess. Play continues until some player > guesses correctly or until all players have guessed incorrectly. > > I am not able to deduce the logic. Can anyone please help me with the logic? Given your description, this is NOT a "simple logic game"... There is, in your description, NO LOGIC to apply. That is, there are NO clues provided to the players. Consider: 7 candidate suspects 3 of the 7 are guilty (perpetrators) 3 of the 7 are listed to the players (these three may or may not be in the list of guilty) "computer also tells the player how many": OKAY, ONE CLUE... but if the computer says "0", then there is nothing for a player to do. Similarly, if the computer says "3", then all of the listed names are guilty -- again, nothing for a player to do. Therefore, the only "play" occurs if the computer says 1 or 2 of the 3 names is in the guilty list. With three names, and one candidate, the first two players are going on sheer luck (if they guess wrong, the third player picks the third name -- win). And with two candidates, you again have just three possibilities: A & B, A & C, or B & C... So again the first two players are just guessing, and if they don't guess right, the third player picks the only remaining choice and wins. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/