Jason_t's flight home...

[loyalguard]

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But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

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[nomadtla]

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But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

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You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The first is never get involved in a land war in Asia. The second, only slightly less well known, is this: never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha -- (he stops abrubtly and falls over, dead)


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[diebitter]

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You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The first is never get involved in a land war in Asia. The second, only slightly less well known, is this: never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha -- (he stops abrubtly and falls over, dead)


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Sicilians are great liars. The best in the world. I'm a Sicilian. And my old man was the world heavyweight champion of Sicilian liars. And from growin' up with him I learned the pantomime. Now there are seventeen different things a guy can do when he lies to give him away. A guy has seventeen pantomimes. A woman's got twenty, but a guy's got seventeen. And if you know 'em like ya know your own face, they beat lie detectors to hell. What we got here is a little game of show and tell. You don't wanna show me nothin'. But you're tellin' me everything. Now I know you know where they are. So tell me, before I do some damage you won't walk away from.

[trying2learn]

so you - you're part eggplant.

[diebitter]

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so you - you're part eggplant.

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You're a cantaloupe.

BLAM!

[mmbt0ne]

Both choose 99.

[durron597]

They should both write $100 because they both know what will happen if they go through the logic of cheating all the way down to $2. I mean obviously this is a classic prisoner's dilemma problem but in real life the $1 is not worth the risk of losing $100.

[trying2learn]

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Both choose 99.

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if that's your answer, why not both choose 100?

i hope someone proves something as to the correct answer...MDW is surely the closest so far.

[mmbt0ne]

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Both choose 99.

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if that's your answer, why not both choose 100?

i hope someone proves something as to the correct answer...MDW is surely the closest so far.

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Because if you choose 100, he can choose 99, and get 101 total, while you get 97.

[mmbt0ne]

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They should both write $100 because they both know what will happen if they go through the logic of cheating all the way down to $2. I mean obviously this is a classic prisoner's dilemma problem but in real life the $1 is not worth the risk of losing $100.

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They won't go through all that logic. All strategies involving #'s 98 or below are dominated.

Well, maybe not. Hold on. I stick by both 99 though.