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    For a somewhat harder/less-familiar version of this puzzle (so as to e.g. prevent these prisoners from just googling a...
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    My answer without reading the hints:Let prisoner one be the first to respond, aka the one at the back of the line....
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    I solved this a while back, but now in retrospect I see a good way of framing it to make the solution obvious.rnpu...
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    you know what would have been cool is if, given that it was a job interview, they’d asked the question in the context of...
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  14. earnest-peer said: If this didn’t have a technical application I would call this a bad question, because this is a popular puzzle and the main thing you’re testing is puzzle affinity, which I don’t know how important that really is to your job… The real-world application is error-correction by checksum, right?
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