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Maze (Posted on 2002-06-26) Difficulty: 3 of 5
You're trapped in a maze. There is a way out. Path junctions are all 3-way.

If you use the strategy of always taking the path going right, what will happen?

(Note: This problem is deliberarely vague.)

See The Solution Submitted by Cheradenine    
Rating: 2.5556 (9 votes)

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re(5): Depends. | Comment 9 of 54 |
(In reply to re(4): Depends. by friedlinguini)

Exactly. That's why I said that the best we can say is that the chances are O/P where O is the number of outside pieces, and P is the total number of pieces, but we have no idea what either number actually is.

Your analysis refines the chances of the right-hand wall being part of an outside piece, where I simply assumed that all pieces had an equal likelihood of owning that wall.

I can only figure that Charadenine assumed that there are no inside pieces when (s)he posed the question.
  Posted by TomM on 2002-06-26 07:32:51

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