[Puzzler] Pirate Booty

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Re: [Puzzler] Pirate Booty

Postby Phoebe » Fri Jul 21, 2017 5:12 pm

Rationality still demands cooperation, though, or else you're artificially excluding cooperative strategies from the game. Nothing wrong with doing so - that is how you get an answer to the original question, after all - but other patterns could be identified as most likely if cooperation is an option, and there's a built-in tension between asking players to be rational deciders and also to assume absolute certainty that cooperation is never an option even when it would be rational.
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Re: [Puzzler] Pirate Booty

Postby Mike » Fri Jul 21, 2017 6:35 pm

So true. I think I'm gonna stick with my current strategy for solving these though.
All I know is my food tastes better when I take my food-tastes-better pill.
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Re: [Puzzler] Pirate Booty

Postby Phoebe » Fri Jul 21, 2017 10:13 pm

I find all these puzzles fascinating. Sometimes I've heard of them but mostly not. Thinking about them opens a great window into so many things.
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Re: [Puzzler] Pirate Booty

Postby Kyle » Sat Jul 22, 2017 6:25 am

I hate to spoil it- but I came up with the solution:


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