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ajfirecracker
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Re: Easy: Knight and Dragon
« Reply #75 on: Jul 17th, 2010, 5:10pm » |
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There are only two explanations for this:
A) The dragon has every option available to the knight, plus the option of bringing/drinking well 7 water. The knight must be smarter/better at logic than the dragon to win, since any winning strategy he uses the dragon could simply copy and make a draw. There is no logical explanation for why the knight wins.
B) The dragon has every option available to the knight, plus the option of bringing/drinking well 7 water. The fact that the dragon can access well 7 and the knight cannot is somehow dooming to him. Given our current set of assumptions, this cannot be the case, as the pattern 1-opponent's water-1-2 beats any choice for opponent's water. Therefore this pattern must not be allowed, or the puzzle is broken. The best way to disallow this would be to add a provision that drinking the same poison twice in a row is fatal (presumably, drinking a lesser poison after a greater one would also be fatal). That is, 1-seawater-1-2 is fatal because 1-seawater-1 is fatal. However, it's still the case that the dragon has every option that the knight has, and then some. All the provision does is take the game from "Draw, no one dies" to "One or both die at random". While random death certainly explains the knight living and the dragon dying, it's not very satisfactory as a puzzle solution.
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riddler358
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Re: Easy: Knight and Dragon
« Reply #76 on: Apr 24th, 2016, 6:37am » |
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knight brings lvl 2 water and drinks exactly half of it right in front of dragon eyes so he can see it, he proposes a draw but dragon doesn't believe him he drinks only water he recieved from knight, knight drinks half of water recieved from dragon when he starts feeling sick, and the dragon even when dying in pain refuses to drink rest of water he brought, this is one very stupid dragon if he dies, and with some serious trust issues
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