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R _ _ N D ) Clue
THE QUESTION IS: "WHAT WOULD THE OTHER ANGEL SAY, IF I ASKED WHICH GATE LEADS TO HEAVEN?". AND DO EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE ANGEL SAYS. IF THE LEFT GATE LEADS TO HEAVEN: THE ANGEL THAT TELLS THE TRUTH WILL SAY THAT IT'S THE RIGHT GATE SINCE IT KNOWS THAT THE OTHER ANGEL WILL LIE. THE ANGEL THAT LIES WILL ALSO SAY THAT IT'S THE RIGHT GATE SINCE IT KNOWS THAT THE OTHER ANGEL WILL TELL THE TRUTH. THE SAME EXPLANATION APPLIES IF THE RIGHT GATE LEADS TO HEAVEN SINCE NONE OF THE MEN ARE WEARING THE COLOR OF SUIT THAT CORRESPONDS TO THEIR NAMES, AND MR. RED WAS REPLYING TO THE MAN IN THE BLUE SUIT, IT HAD TO BE MR. GREEN TO WHOM HE REPLIED. WE THEN KNOW THAT MR. GREEN IS WEARING A BLUE SUIT. THEREFORE, MR. RED IS WEARING A GREEN SUIT AND MR. BLUE IS WEARING A RED SUIT LET'S SEE HOW IT WOULD PLAY OUT IF THE HATS WERE DISTRIBUTED LIKE THIS. THE TALLEST CAPTIVE SEES THREE BLACK HATS IN FRONT OF HIM, SO HE SAYS "BLACK," TELLING EVERYONE ELSE HE SEES AN ODD NUMBER OF BLACK HATS. HE GETS HIS OWN HAT COLOR WRONG, BUT THAT'S OKAY SINCE YOU'RE COLLECTIVELY ALLOWED TO HAVE ONE WRONG ANSWER. PRISONER TWO ALSO SEES AN ODD NUMBER OF BLACK HATS, SO SHE KNOWS HERS IS WHITE, AND ANSWERS CORRECTLY. PRISONER THREE SEES AN EVEN NUMBER OF BLACK HATS, SO HE KNOWS THAT HIS MUST BE ONE OF THE BLACK HATS THE FIRST TWO PRISONERS SAW. PRISONER FOUR HEARS THAT AND KNOWS THAT SHE SHOULD BE LOOKING FOR AN EVEN NUMBER OF BLACK HATS SINCE ONE WAS BEHIND HER. BUT SHE ONLY SEES ONE, SO SHE DEDUCES THAT HER HAT IS ALSO BLACK. PRISONERS FIVE THROUGH NINE ARE EACH LOOKING FOR AN ODD NUMBER OF BLACK HATS, WHICH THEY SEE, SO THEY FIGURE OUT THAT THEIR HATS ARE WHITE. NOW IT ALL COMES DOWN TO YOU AT THE FRONT OF THE LINE. IF THE NINTH PRISONER SAW AN ODD NUMBER OF BLACK HATS, THAT CAN ONLY MEAN ONE THING. YOU'LL FIND THAT THIS STRATEGY WORKS FOR ANY POSSIBLE ARRANGEMENT OF THE HATS. THE FIRST PRISONER HAS A 50% CHANCE OF GIVING A WRONG ANSWER ABOUT HIS OWN HAT, BUT THE PARITY INFORMATION HE CONVEYS ALLOWS EVERYONE ELSE TO GUESS THEIRS WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY. EACH BEGINS BY EXPECTING TO SEE AN ODD OR EVEN NUMBER OF HATS OF THE SPECIFIED COLOR. IF WHAT THEY COUNT DOESN'T MATCH, THAT MEANS THEIR OWN HAT IS THAT COLOR. AND EVERY TIME THIS HAPPENS, THE NEXT PERSON IN LINE WILL SWITCH THE PARITY THEY EXPECT TO SEE. SO THAT'S IT, YOU'RE FREE TO GO. IT LOOKS LIKE THESE ALIENS WILL HAVE TO GO HUNGRY, OR FIND SOME LESS LOGICAL ORGANISMS TO ABDUCT ROUND ONE: ORDER AVIATION, BRONX, CAIPIRINHA, GRASSHOPPER, GRASSHOPPER. YOU CAN NOW IDENTIFY THE GRASSHOPPER (ORDERED TWICE IN THIS ROUND). ROUND TWO: ORDER AVIATION, HURRICANE, KAMIKAZE, MANHATTAN, MANHATTAN. YOU CAN NOW IDENTIFY THE: MANHATTAN (ORDERED TWICE THIS ROUND) AND AVIATION (ONLY DRINK ORDERED IN THE FIRST AND SECOND ROUND) ROUND THREE: ORDER BRONX, HURRICANE, NEGRONI, VESPER, VESPER. YOU CAN NOW IDENTIFY THE: VESPER (ORDERED TWICE THIS ROUND), BRONX (ORDER DRINK ORDERED IN THE FIRST AND THIRD ROUND), HURRICANE (ONLY DRINK ORDERED IN THE SECOND AND THIRD ROUND), CAIPIRINHA (ONLY UNIDENTIFIED DRINK FROM THE FIRST ROUND), KAMIKAZE (ONLY UNIDENTIFIED DRINK FROM THE SECOND ROUND), AND NEGRONI (ONLY UNIDENTIFIED DRINK FROM THE THIRD ROUND)