Captain Usopp Wrote:Oh and your wrong, Maces way is not 100%. For one he didn't say how he would split the novices but lets say it was 3,3,2. We know the liars can choose to lie or not so lets assume one of the 3's has 2 liars and the group of 2 made it to morroc. One of the liars decides to return and one doesn't. Now it will be impossible to know which path was right. As there are two groups that didn't return fully and if you asked them one could say the truth and other could lie and you couldn't tell the difference. This could all be solved if the player went with the group of 2 and came back but he didn't say that so its not an acceptable answer.
Mace did say 3 3 2. "take one path yourself, have 2 groups of 3 and a group of 2."
Secondly, your 'solutions' (for question 2) to both your own answer and Mace's "fix" don't qualify for the time limit. You can't get it done in 3 minutes with that approach. Your approach needs 5 minutes (which is the answer for question 2b instead! Hurray!)
Thirdly, Raine's "missing one line of logic" for question 2 explains why everything does fit together.
And guys, PLEASE post your IGN in your answers?
So to clarify for question 2b: Captain Usopp has the right answer.
Let the Paths be A, B, C and D.
Go to path A yourself. No problems here since you don't lie to yourself.
Send all 3 novices down to path B. If there's no disagreements, then everything is good. If there is disagreement, the two saying the same thing are the liars. Now that liars are identified and you got time to make another check for 2 more paths (due to the extended time limit), repeat the process for the last 2 paths, if necessary.
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Question 3
GMs devised the next 5 monster choices for the next ToH monster trial.
One evil rulebreaker tries to use ToH as her opportunity to try to pretend to be a GM. She will try to find out all 5 monster choices, tell it to people before ToH what those 5 monsters are, and if ToH really have those 5 monsters for the monster trial, then it'll be a fufilling prophecy and this rulebreaker will really seem to be a "secret GM legit." If she only got 4 or less monster choices though, then her own plan doesn't really work since a real GM should know all 5 without errors. Therefore, she must obtain all 5 monster choices: even knowing just 4 won't do her enough good (how greedy of her!)
GM-Ayu thought of the 5 monsters (Poring, Poporing, Drops, Marin, Mastering) and need to use forum PM to write to GM-Pandora about the monster choices. However, this rulebreaker hacked the system so that she may redirect 2 of all PMs that GM-Ayu can send to GM-Pandora to herself instead. GM-Pandora will lose access to these redirected PMs, because the rulebreaker will get them instead.
When GM-Ayu realized this, she thought of an evil counter-strategy. She will use play along the rulebreaker's "game" by sending only 7 separate PMs to message GM-Pandora in such a way that Pandora will receive the names of the 5 monsters chosen for ToH when she reads the 5 PMs (since 2 of the 7 will be redirected to the rulebreaker.) The rulebreaker will receive just 4 or less monster choices (thus frustrating this rulebreaker to no end: so close yet so far~). Rulebreaker will never get the full list no matter what.
GM-Ayu is confident enough that her counter-strategy is flawless. Her 7 PMs contained only the names of the monsters without any other word, spelled correctly and all.
Exactly what did GM-Ayu write in the 7 PMs to accomplish all of this? Explain why if any 2 of those 7 PMs are redirected, then Pandora will still get the full list while the rulebreaker will only have an incomplete list.
Prize of question 3: OCA
Note: the list of monster above is purely fictional and does not reflect Nov ToH lineup =P
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