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#1 Re: Puzzles and Games » Pirates » 2009-10-01 10:50:19
I am confused by the answer as with this logic anyone could vote to toss the oldest. If 2 get less than they think they deserve then the oldest is out.
But folowing some sort of logic...
If you give any three pirates 30 gold coins each, and keep 10 gold coins for yourself (you have to keep some treasure for yourself as captain) then the three pirates should vote for you and only one against.
Or you could give all the gold shared evenly by any three. Hence ruling age out of the equasion.
You could give the three oldest pirates the money and forget about the youngest vote.
Does this make sense to anyone?
Cheers
Jev.
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