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Win over 5000000000000000 ce if you can solve this riddle

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Tue, 06/02/2015 - 09:21
Fight-Beetle's picture
Fight-Beetle

Here's the riddle:

A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has ten bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned, and each pirate has twelve coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch, which a prisoner can leave as is or can flip. Before being led into the rooms, they are all made to wear either a blue hat, or a red hat; they can see all the other prisoner's hats but not their own. Meanwhile, a six digit prime number of monkeys multiplies until their digits reverse, and then all have to get accross a river on a canoe that can only hold a maximum of two monkeys at a time. But half the monkeys always lie, and the others always tell the truth. Given that the Nth prisoner knows that one of the monkeys doesn't know that a pirate doesn't know the product of two numbers between 1 and 100 without knowing the N+1th prisoner has flipped the switch in his room or not after determining which bottle of wine was poisoned and which color his hat is, what is the solution to this puzzle?

Good luck.

Tue, 06/02/2015 - 10:35
#1
Fangel's picture
Fangel
The answer is simple.

You walk the plank in the morning and try not to get a headache beforehand.

Also this is more of a gremlin chatter thing.

Tue, 06/02/2015 - 11:00
#2
Holy-Nightmare's picture
Holy-Nightmare
........

Wait for one of the pirates to walk off the plank and then commandeer the ship since the 100 prisoners outnumber the remaining pirates 50 to 1 and are armed with 1000 bottles of wine (one of which is poisoned). Throw out the wine because anyone caught by pirates that walk themselves off planks aren't intelligent enough to figure out which bottle is poisoned. For sustenance they kill the monkeys and preserve the meat to divvy out amongst themselves on their journey back to civilization and freedom. The hats are to be used as containers to carry empty bottles and dried monkey meat for the journey.

" with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank "

Tue, 06/02/2015 - 18:00
#3
Fight-Beetle's picture
Fight-Beetle
You're wrong

The 12th coin, which is always counterfeit and is with every pirate's possesion, affects your plan so it doesnt work.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 11:40
#4
Holy-Nightmare's picture
Holy-Nightmare
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The coin is extra data meant to mislead as in the OP there is nothing pointing towards how they are to be used.

Wed, 06/03/2015 - 12:53
#5
Gigawattx's picture
Gigawattx
Nice Troll

This is just an amalgamation of a bunch of different popular riddles with a nonsensical question at the end....lol....

-captain obvious out

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